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by halJordan 11 days ago
A 2 bit model is still 700gbs you need to stream through.

I know we say reading is free (vs writing). But on a 2tb drive, you're doing a full drive read for every three tokens. Thats 333,000 drive reads just to fill up the context. Well, this is at least an moe model so not that terrible. But i think the point remains