And lets not forget, that they don’t produce any value, just entertainment.

I don’t know what weird definition of value you are using. But for a sane definition, this is just wrong.

He is technically wrong though. His argument is based on people only using DRAM for model inference. Which is nuts.

People use DRAM for a lot of things more beneficial than AI inference. And those use cases are also many times more efficient than whatever this Epstein class guy is using it for.

A CNC machine that produces actual goods that are actually beneficial to humanity does need DRAM. I doubt it needs more than 100MB though. An LLM counting the RS in strawberry eats up a gazillion TB of DRAM to produce nothing of value.

That’s inside the macro though. Whatever you parse inside the macro is defined by the creator of the macro. The macro invocation itself is defined by the rust language.

Rust allows you to use any bracket because it doesn’t know what the macro is supposed to do.

Some macros work like functions:

println!("Hello world");

Some macros work like array declarations:

let v = vec![1,2,3];

And some macros work like a code scope:

select!{
 a => myfunc(),
 b => my_other_func()
}

Since rust doesn’t know what your macro does, it just lets the user choose whatever the user sees more fitting for that specific macro invocation.

Funny that you put rust as the “uses parenthesis for function calls”. When in rust you can use any bracket for macro invocations:

let v1 = vec!(1,2,3);
let v2 = vec![1,2,3];
let v3 = vec!{1,2,3};

These are valid and have the exact same meaning.

Well, you can say stupid shit and only realize it after you already posted it.

In those situations it’s better to just edit the comment so people can still read the stupid shit with the context that the commenter doesn’t believe in the stupid shit anymore.