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I regret building this $3000 Pi AI cluster

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468 points speckx | 1 comments | 19 Sep 25 14:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | source
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fidotron ◴[19 Sep 25 14:44 UTC] No.45302232[source]▶
If Pi Clusters were actually cost competitive for performance there would be data centres full of them.
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shermantanktop ◴[19 Sep 25 14:49 UTC] No.45302287[source]▶
Like the joke about the economists not picking up the $20 bill on the ground?

Faith in the perfect efficiency of the free market only works out over the long term. In the short term we have a lot of habits that serve as heuristics for doing a good job most of the time.

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1. ThrowawayR2 ◴[19 Sep 25 15:32 UTC] No.45302760[source]▶
There's been so much investigation into alternative architectures for datacenters and cloud providers, including FAANG resorting to designing their own ARM processors and accelerator chips (e.g. AWS Graviton, Google TPUs) and having them fabbed, that that comes off not as warranted cynicism but silly cynicism.