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by smcnally 2mo ago
groq did an ASIC for llama and now for nvidia. Their cloud service is fast. > NVIDIA Groq 3 LPU Inference Accelerator > The NVIDIA Groq 3 LPU is the next generation of Groq’s innovative language processing unit. Each LPX rack features
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by smcnally 2mo ago
Does this work on early Velop mesh nodes, by chance?
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by smcnally 6mo ago
Some of unsloth studio’s code is Apache? Or some of lmstudio is?
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by smcnally 7mo ago
Or more-realistic flawed looks as the case is here.
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by smcnally 8mo ago
That’s beautiful. But you get aurora even sans G4, true? Was this more intense and spectacular?
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by smcnally 8mo ago
Indirect Nuclear Fusion
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by smcnally 9mo ago
“Mac-only” was disappointing to read, but OBS’ render performance has been fine on macos and linux even with older hardware. James Webb calls anything heavier than helium “metal.”
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by smcnally 11mo ago
It’s also a Wonder Dog, a Canadian power trio not featuring Neal Peart, and a moment when we shouldn’t evacuate the Death Star.
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by smcnally 11mo ago
> The technical term is enteral ventilation via anus (EVA). Anecdatally, I have encountered multiple people with congenital capabilities re enteral locution via anus. Wishfully, training astronauts for enteral ventilation via anus during
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by smcnally 1y ago
https://anycrap.shop/product/adult-bathroom-wipes-soaked-in-...
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by smcnally 1y ago
> After the Shuttle program ended in failure, work on reusable launch systems stopped for decades. “ended in failure” sounds harsh in this context. Or is that just me whistling past the sunk cost fallacies?
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by smcnally 1y ago
`model.safetensors` for Qwen3-0.6B is a single 1.5GB file. Qwen3-235B-A22B has 118 `.safetensors` files at 4GB each. There are a bunch of models and quants between those.
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by smcnally 1y ago
Beyond solid benchmarks, Alibaba's power move was dropping a bunch of models available to use and run locally today. That's disruptive already and the slew of fine tunes to come will be good for all users and builders. https:&#x2
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by smcnally 1y ago
The ROT13 cipher for API is NVK. NVidia Knows
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by smcnally 1y ago
> The DESI collaboration is honored to be permitted to conduct scientific research on I’oligam Du’ag (Kitt Peak), a mountain with particular significance to the Tohono O’odham Nation. Anyone here know how a request like this was made or
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by smcnally 2y ago
A recent financial report on the media industry noted The Onion is on the verge of collapse due to, quote, “not being able to able to make sh*t up that is more idiotic than current reality.”
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by smcnally 2y ago
darktable does all of this. It’s a complex application like Aperture or Light Table. You run it on your own macos, Windows or Linux computer. You can write your own software to extend or change it. Photos.app does most of this sans the Wind
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by smcnally 2y ago
“Your Honor, why should I bother obeying a law my elected representatives could not be bothered to write?” seems like it should be a reasonable defense, but you’re right that the onus is on us as The Governed to know and understand every bi
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by smcnally 2y ago
OpenAI and Anthropic are definitely among the leaders. Playing catch-up to these leaders' mind-share and technology is some of the motivation for others. Calling the progress being made in the space by Google (Gemini), MSFT (Phi), Meta
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by smcnally 2y ago
A compiler in the mix is very helpful. That and other sanity checks wielded by a skilled engineer doing code reviews can provide valuable feedback to other developers and to LLMs. The knowledgeable human in the loop makes the coding process
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by smcnally 2y ago
That is definitely an issue with many LLMs. I've had limited success including instructions like "Don't invent facts" in the system prompt and more success saying "that was not correct. Please answer again and check
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by smcnally 2y ago
> LLMs also love to double down on solutions that don't work. “Often wrong but never in doubt” is not proprietary to LLMs. It’s off-putting and we want them to be correct and to have humility when they’re wrong. But we should rememb
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by smcnally 2y ago
> I'm not sure this is grounded in reality. We've already seen articles related to how OpenAI is behind schedule with GPT-5. Progress by Google, meta, Microsoft, Qwen and Deepseek is unhampered by OpenAI’s schedule. Their lates
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by smcnally 2y ago
A deeper version of the same idea is to ask a second model to check the first model’s answers. aider’s “architect” is an automated version of this approach. https://aider.chat/docs/usage/modes.html#architect-mode-a
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by smcnally 2y ago
for x86 or PowerPC?
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by smcnally 2y ago
From a vision PoV, QvQ has done very impressive work analyzing a photo of 0) celebrities, 1) a dog, and 2) a cartoon from The New Yorker. Other models have issues with one or more of these. https://github.com/smcnally/s
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by smcnally 2y ago
Restating the question to start the response is good practice for Actual and Artificial Intelligence.
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by smcnally 2y ago
Hoarder has a chrome plugin, Firefox addon, and apps for Android and iOS for which the app store says something I’ve never seen before: “Data Not Collected — The developer does not collect any data from this app.”
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by smcnally 2y ago
Among the frightening parts of that is the time and human lives it has taken between Boeing destroying its engineering culture and starting to pay the price for that destruction.
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by smcnally 2y ago
> the former chief creative officer of Leo Burnett US, recalls one agency trying to lure her in the ’90s with a stunning oceanfront house in Rye, N.Y. That’s quite creative or a great troll: Rye, NY has no oceanfront. It does have a Play

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