PSA: Fast RAM isn't going to be getting cheaper anytime soon. Acquiring inference hardware is a really good way to own an appreciating hard asset. Learning how to use it and cool it is a hacker's journey worth taking. My 4090 I bought in late 2022 for $1600 is selling for a cool $3,489.95 right now, and going strong under nominal use. My DRR5 has tripled in value, my nvmes almost doubled. I grabbed a 128GB M5 Max MacBook Pro when they were still available and told all my friends to buy at least one. With that and a base M4 Studio 36GB, HuggingFace rates that hardware as:

> Amazing! You have a total of 128.94 TFLOPS of computing power. 71.3% percentile on scale of "GPU Poor" to "GPU Rich"

The way I see it, these are amazing machines that the richest folks are hovering up. I think they should be in the hands of regular people as much as possible. They depend on an incredibly global, increasingly fragile supply chain. If the become impossible to produce, their value would increase tremendously. I think they will become really valuable to you to use the tokens directly, but if that isn't the case, they can be rented out or resold. Please don't just buy any hold. Let's try to get as many people that can use them for decent things that help humans. For example:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/small-language-models-ai-pharmaceu...