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@fluffykittycat We study cognitive and neurological factors over a long-term population (the first lot recruited in the 1920s). A lot of the results are into markers of Alzheimer's and various kinds of dementia, both potential ways of reducing effects and early detection.

@AnachronistJohn It's all good. Apologies if I was a bit sharp there, I've been arguing with techbros on various platforms.

And yeah, this is in some ways just the latest way that research funding has found to make things as inconvenient as possible.

@AnachronistJohn I do not see the relevance of what you are saying, since it appears at best tangential to what I posted.

My research group _is_ buying the hardware and I am managing it, there is no "cloud" involved (except for the AI-boosting scum). It's a matter of timings, research grants, and budget approvals that we have to buy now rather than back in September.

@fuzzygroup I have, and that increase is across the board for all vendors on the UK academic purchasing contracts. This server needs a reasonable amount of RAM — 4TB+, a lot by consumer standards, but mid-range for the compute we're doing.

If there were any justice, Sam Altman's impact on the world would be measured in mass graves.

To say that everyone involved in Anthropic, OpenAI, nVidia, Oracle, and the rest of the spicy-autocorrect bubble that surrounds these scum should be burned alive is AN INSULT TO FIRE

Quote in September last year for a high-memory compute server. £28,000.

Quote today for the _exact same machine_. £90,500

This is for medical research. Saving lives. When I say LLMs are killing people by killing research computing, this is what I mean.

@davidgerard.co.uk @edzitron.com

@cstross @drmaddkap I'm aware of how lucky I am, but 7-8% is way better than 0% and I'd rather people try than assume it won't ever work.

@drmaddkap With all due respect, I say this as someone who spent twenty minutes dead and is only alive due to CPR and a defibrillator?

Bullshit.