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  • Memory by Round-Trip Time

    Memory by Round-Trip Time

    When John Carmack recently mused about storing model weights not in DRAM but effectively “in flight” inside long fiber-optic loops, I felt the peculiar satisfaction of seeing a childhood thought experiment return wearing a proper engineer’s clothes. His version is, naturally, better. It has numbers, materials, bandwidth, realistic constraints, and the kind of sober physicality…