system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
How does RAM work?
gpt
Let's say you have a large grid. In that grid you can either have no rock (0's) or a rock (1's). Those grids are called squares (bits). The squares are further segmented into blocks (bytes), with eight squares to a block. You know a secret language (binary) that let's you read what those blocks mean. The bigger the table, the more blocks you can have, and thus the more information (memory) you can have at once. Bigger tables cost more money though, but over time they get cheaper. Some people decide to have multiple tables (multiple RAM slots, such as 2x4GB), and some people decide to have tables just for pictures (video RAM).