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Flash has limited write cycles, I wonder what the lifetime of these chips are supposed to be. I would think trying to compute with them would hit that limit ver

• lern_too_spel 5y ago
  The weights are loaded once per model, so you would only have a write when you update the model, which happens once every few hours or days for most applications today.
  • rbanffy 5y ago
    An interesting notion that machines with these will experience a form of dementia as their memory cells fail to write and start reading as old or corrupt data. Fortunately, we can always move such a mind to a brand-new brain, able to hold more data for longer. Or simply keep it synchronized all the time, so that respawning would be immediate.
• Eyght 5y ago
  My mind immediately went to the artificial 4-year lifespan of the Nexus-6 replicants in Blade Runner.
  • sdenton4 5y ago
    "The candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long... And you, you, Roy, have used oh so many write-cycles."