Post B4ogSHAechIEwh4DnU by davidgerard@circumstances.run
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 (DIR) Post #B4ogSHAechIEwh4DnU by davidgerard@circumstances.run
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       the precise timeline of how OpenAI fucked over the RAM market> October 2025: Sam Altman flies to Seoul and signs simultaneous deals with Samsung and SK Hynix for 900,000 DRAM wafers per month. That's 40% of global supply. Neither company knew the other was signing a near-identical commitment at the same time.https://xcancel.com/aakashgupta/status/2038813799856374135
       
 (DIR) Post #B4ogVXQwcCLgFiF5EW by ariadne@social.treehouse.systems
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       @davidgerard thanks sam!
       
 (DIR) Post #B4ohjuaDRUDe3dzqZE by BillSaysThis@curmudgeon.cafe
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       @ariadne @davidgerard “Google publishes TurboQuant, a compression algorithm that reduces AI memory requirements by 6x with zero accuracy loss.”This algorithm is somehow only applicable to AI??
       
 (DIR) Post #B4ohqtKaUo00CZ0yp6 by ariadne@social.treehouse.systems
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       @BillSaysThis @davidgerard yes, it is possible to create domain-specific compression algorithms that are better than general ones.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4okJr8RwFW5hKHCc4 by Vorsos@beige.party
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       @ariadne @BillSaysThis @davidgerard Really? I’ve been using pngcrush for audio files.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4oqTeDBRVCIEjXiqm by demofox@mastodon.gamedev.place
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       @BillSaysThis @ariadne @davidgerard if so, it's because they were doing something stupid and this fixes that IMO.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4oqTeR0c6Fwvc0lOq by davidgerard@circumstances.run
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       @demofox @BillSaysThis @ariadne yeah I'd be slightly interested in the details, but also only slightly because (a) if it were applicable anywhere else we'd all know about it (b) we're far enough up and along the S curve i can see 6x the memory giving only a slight improvement. Maybe plain ML can benefit a lot, I dunno.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4oqTeijYCQzoaIv1k by jnkrtech@social.treehouse.systems
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       @davidgerard @demofox @BillSaysThis @ariadne my question is just whether this will make RAM less expensive. I’m guessing “no”, because that would be a good thing, and it seems increasingly likely that we can’t have those.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4oqTetMuewQLZHPbU by ariadne@social.treehouse.systems
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       @davidgerard @demofox @BillSaysThis @jnkrtech it did not
       
 (DIR) Post #B4oqWhSznT97CVOWEi by jnkrtech@social.treehouse.systems
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       @ariadne @davidgerard @demofox @BillSaysThis 🥲