This is more concerning than anything else happening in the AI space.
Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months
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Re: Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months
#442Boy am I feeling this. I had my eye on building a new Threadripper machine, which requires DDR5 RDIMMs. Much to my surprise while happily building out a parts list one fine evening I learned that these are going for between $500 and $1000 for one single 16GB module right now. I think I'll hold off and squeeze a few more years out of DDR4 and PCIe 4.0.
I just laid an arm and a leg for 128GB of DDR4. More than I normally would have ever spent, because the alternatives were far worse.
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#444There is no law that states memory must be a consumer product. I truly believe the era of personal computing was a beautiful blip that our masters are beginning to take away from the general public. It could be terminals and time sharing for the foreseeable future through "smart" phones.
This is the ultimate dystopian outcome. How do we stop this?
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Do you have a source for this being the reason they might remove some troops?
An admin upset about inflation driven negative economic sentiment and a country that is slow rolling a couple hundred billion in investments. Current events.
What else do you know about the inner workings of the current administration… and seriously reflect on why your answer isn’t “lol what? Absolutely nothing!”
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And watch … $5 says they have nothing to do with the ram because even if there was enough power there’s no use case for this much spend If I had to guess they’re just buying up ram to keep others from having it same way meta, Google, etc hired up engineers to keep others from having them
Also imagine people having their own cheap 2TB rigs at home for their own usage/inference, or a multitude of small providers serving/sharing capacity thanks to cheap available hardware. But we cant have that, as the big guys are hoarding everything for themselves, so that you have to pay them instead.
I don’t think there were some grand conspiracy to buy up the world’s ram to keep other people out, it is probably more likely that they just really thought they would need it.
However, I do feel like this is the type of conspiracy that unfiltered Claude would come up with.
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I'd say the code I see coming out of leading models today is okay. Not great, but not terrible. It's also easy to get LLMs to code in more efficient languages, and you can also goad them via prompts and CLAUDE.md type stuff into prioritizing performance and simplicity. It's sort of like what I say about self driving cars. Are they better than good human drivers? Not yet. Are they better than bad, drunk, or texting dr…
In a world where we no longer have the rat's nest of complexity, we pretty much no longer need to produce code. All the software we will ever need for the next century could fit on books in one, single-floor library, if we exclude art projects like video games. An operating system with full driver support for every I/O peripheral (if those devices use standard protocols, allowing for a https://xkcd.com/927/ constant…
You might be a fan of kelvin versioning: https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/kelvin_versioning.html
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#448Intel should probably restart their Optane and also get back in RAM.
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I'm saving a ton of money by simply not upgrading. I used to do upgrades every 1-2 years just to keep up on things, pass the old box down to my son or otherwise donate it. Now I intend to keep my current setup for 7+ years. Its 2 years old next month. I may even stay with it longer. I just see no reason to upgrade with things how they are. I considered a Mac Studio a couple months ago. Price was up but might have pul…
I think it's probably for the best, the hyperconsumerism around electronics was getting out of hand. Computers are fast and have been fast for a while now. An iPhone 12 is probably more than fine to do iPhone things, if Apple didn't sabotage their old phones with poorly-written poor-performance software.
It's still faster than Android?
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Tried to buy old DDR4 memory recently? I've been revitalizing some old laptops, and I foolishly paid nearly $200 for a Crucial 32GB Kit of DDR4 PC4-19200.
I bought 32GB of DDR4 SODIMMs (16GBx2 Corsair 3200MHz) April last year for $50.
128GB 3600Mhz… $600 just last week.