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1. jedber+9g[view] [source] 2026-02-02 22:48:39
>>g-mork+(OP)
Whenever computer chips go into space, they have to be hardened against radiation, because there is no atmosphere to protect them. Otherwise you get random bit flips.

This process takes a while, which is partly why all the computers in space seem out of date. Because they are.

No one is going to want to use chips that are a many years out of date or subject to random bit flips.

(Although now it got me thinking, do random bit flips matter when training a trillion parameter model?)

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2. fooker+lY[view] [source] 2026-02-03 03:05:57
>>jedber+9g
LLMs specifically are fine with random bits flipped for the results to be 'creative'.
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