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1. dghlsakjg · 1785816328 · focus · HN ↗

   I know everyone wants to crap all over these setups that are impractical, but this is how progress happens.

   People will keep plugging away at this and figure out how to avoid wearing the hard drive, how to make it run faster, custom hardware buses etc.

   Keep going! I personally can't wait for the day when a 1t param model runs off a $200 SSD instead of a $50k rack of Nvidia chips.

   1. pizza234 · 1785836695 · focus · HN ↗

      > but this is how progress happens.

      This is progress in the same way that a man climbing a tree is making progress toward reaching the moon.

      This project is essentially the MoE-of-the day, with some platform-related optimizations.

      > Keep going! I personally can't wait for the day when a 1t param model runs off a $200 SSD instead of a $50k rack of Nvidia chips.

      That won't happen. Projects like this just give the illusion that that will be possible.

      1. bluerooibos · 1785855798 · focus · HN ↗

         > That won't happen

         I don't understand how anyone with any degree of technological or scientific literacy or knowledge of advances in the past 100-200 years can say something won't happen in the future.

         I am absolutely certain it will - the only uncertainty is how long, but given the rate of progress, I'm guessing it won't be far away.

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