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Sardaukar20

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The madman actually did it, tariffing 25% of US largest trade partners for no reason

This is why I supported Trump to get into power, he's the only one that can speed up the destruction of the imperialist American state
Trump is always coming for China. Who knows, maybe he is putting these tariffs with plans to get Canada and Mexico in line to join his crusade against China. If they refuse, then he might threaten to increase their pain with sanctions, military action, and even annexation. Twist your friends' arms, and they'll eventually obey. That's what Trump and America loves to do.

I'm predicting that Canada will fold again, like it had always done. Mexico might hold out for awhile, but should eventually fold too because America is too close, and too important economically to pick a fight with.

I think China anticipates this because it was never realistic to expect to get America's own neighbours to turn against it right now. That is why China's ultimate strategy is to go after America itself, not its satrapies. That is probably why we see the 6th gen fighter demonstrations, and the announcement of DeepSeek R1. That XHS craze was just a sweet coincidental bonus.
 
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9dashline

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Trump is always coming after China. Who knows, maybe he is putting these tariffs with plans to get Canada and Mexico in line to join his crusade against China. If they refuse, then he might threaten to increase their pain with sanctions, military action, and even annexation. Twist your friends' arms, and they'll eventually obey. That's what Trump and America loves to do.

I'm predicting that Canada will fold again, like it had always done. Mexico might hold out for awhile, but should eventually fold too because America is too close, and too important economically to pick a fight with.

I think the China anticipates this because it was never realistic to expect to get America's own neighbours to turn against it right now. That is why China's ultimate strategy is to go after America itself, not its satrapies. That is probably why we see the 6th gen fighter demonstrations, and the announcement of DeepSeek R1. That XHS craze was just a sweet random bonus.
Don't forget 98% of US AI chips still come from Taiwan...
all Xi has to do is press button and US is dead in water, literally
 

horse

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Amidst hype about AI in general and DeepSeek in particular, NVDA is mentioned non-stop and lots of people talking about CUDA. Some random tidbits here about NVDA.

IIRC, the primary purpose of CUDA is for GPU adaptation layer for general purpose computing. That was what I learned when I was trading INTC/AMD/NVDA shares long time ago. The notion of GPGPU, General Purpose Graphical Processing Unit, came about due to this CUDA functionality for general purpose computing, such as SIMD programming. In software engineering terms, CUDA is an API framework for general purpose programming of NVDA GPUs, no more no less.

Before AI bubble, NVDA has been the number one GPU vendor due to 2 things it has done right:

(1) CUDA gives graphics and video developers familiar synopsis of API programming, while AMD/ATI and other minor GPU vendors never delivered.

(2) It was said that NVDA develops the best device driver for GPU in the industry. I have never written GPU device driver, but I have written gazillions of device drivers for HDLC, Ethernet, UART, I2C etc. Correct me if I am wrong: GPU device drivers were considered most technically challenging among all types of device drivers. And for a large part, a GPU performance depends on quality of its device driver.

Fast forward to this AI bubbling era, people are hyping NVDA as the savior of AI etc. But the fact of the matter is that, NVDA got lucky, partially due to Jensen Huang's vision in providing a programming API that would be more friendly to game developers.

DeepSeek used PTX instead of CUDA to fine-tune its AI model training. In layman's words, PTX is for assembly programming while CUDA is for C programming. There is no myth in CUDA to those who wrote assembly code or device drivers or BSPs. Usually, people would use lower level language or instruction set to optimize.

Reality sometimes is a real bitch. Like Smalltalk vs Java. Commercial success is technological advancement in capitalism.

That is the THING in my mind when it comes to the significance of DeepSeek releases. Somewhat, to some degree, it punches that myth in NVDA vis-a-vis CUDA as long as AI is concerned.

Great comments!

This I am pulling out of my ass, because do not really much about any of this.

Did read the team at DeepSeek was using some assembly like kind of programming to make it faster, optimizing it.

That is so old school. Having resource constraints due to limitations of the hardware on hand, they have to do that.

But they did it. DeepSeek, that means anyone can do it, do something like this with hardware constraints. Means no one really need all that money to produce what DeepSeek has today, and of course, it is free!

:cool:


This is what I would like to say, this feels to me at this moment, similar to the Tet Offensive.

Of course, the most important geopolitical event we saw in our lives, the Fall of the Berlin Wall.

The appearance of R1 then two days Micro$oft cloud is serving it up, that changed everything.

That was the Tet Offensive. It changed the course of the war, it changed everyone's opinion and perception at that time.

Whatever plans they had, the US might want to leverage their A.I. monopoly to do bigger and better things, perhaps including re-industrializing in the most advanced industries, that is all shot it seems.

Some people say, when we reach this stage of the game, where China is playing like this, this is the part where they scale up in the PRC, this is the part where cost will be driven lower and like fast.

Seems to me this A.I. war is going to get more vicious in the coming months.

:p
 

Sardaukar20

Captain
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Don't forget 98% of US AI chips still come from Taiwan...
all Xi has to do is press button and US is dead in water, literally
That is why Trump is imposing tariffs on Taiwanese semiconductors. To try to force US firms to source them from TSMC Arizona. Trump's goal is to decouple from Taiwan and make America the #1 semiconductor manufacturer. Which is ultimately a positive development for China.

Speaking about the Chinese province of Taiwan. They are not subjected to the US AI chip restrictions. To me, this is a blunder by America. Because we in SDF know what hidden role Taiwan plays in China's semiconductor industry. America still suspects Singapore of smuggling AI chips to China, and that is good.
 

TK3600

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Apparently during Covid, OneRepublic were the first to stand up against the racist naming of "Wuhan Virus", they even tattooed a bowl of Wuhan noodle (dry hot noddle) in solidarity. It's not a coincidence they were performing counting stars in Wuhan. Spring festival gala is carefully choreographed, the selection of each person on screen was carefully vetted.

I think some of your messages don't have good vibes especially regarding sexuality. Just because Chinese bros don't go posting on the internet about "stealing white women" (ahem, Jai Hinds) doesn't mean they are incels.
One People's Republic.
 
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