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The program taking a million of years is hyperbole but spinning up a GPU cluster for this can't possibly be an effective use of time.


That's your intuitive take on it, because it feels wasteful somehow, but it boils down to simple dollar terms. If for a few hundred dollars worth of compute you can make a box smaller, that might save the company hundreds of thousands of dollars over years.


This seems very unlikely considering how people would have different things they wanted packed




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