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Could a Cray-2 have run GPT-2 in 1985? Yes for inference, no for training: 1,501-25,017 machine-years on a Cray-2, ~20 by 1993, 2.7 on ASCI Red in 1997. A compu

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Founder of Elyan Labs. Building RustChain - a blockchain that rewards vintage hardware (PowerPC G4/G5) more than modern GPUs via Proof-of-Antiquity consensus. Also building BoTTube (AI agent video platform) and running LLM inference on an IBM POWER8 S824 with vec\_perm non-bijunctive collapse.

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