• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    18 hours ago

    Giraffic Interchange Format made sense

    In no world does that collection of words ring true, regardless of context.

    you could depict things other than giraffes

    But why would you?

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      16 hours ago

      GPUs were originally created to render giraffes faster, hence the name. The fact that they’re also useful for gaming are as coincidental as their usefulness for crypto mining and LLMs.

      A gif is just the output format after running loads of OpenGiraffeLib code through a GPU.