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29 Apr 2026 Dwarkesh Podcast Reiner Pope – The math behind how LLMs are trained and served
“I’m kind of shocked to see spinning disk being used at all, because it’s such an old technology.”
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- Reiner Pope
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- 29 Apr 2026
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
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…Basically, you want to store things in there for so long such that the amount of time it’s in there is the time to get all your things in there and out. Yeah basically. I think that probably indicates that the two tiers are flash and spinning disk. I’m kind of shocked to see spinning disk being used at all, because it’s such an old technology. Interesting. It’s also crazy that it’s so slow that it takes an hour to load its full capacity to it in.…
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