zargon

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by zargon 6d ago
I didn't think to check for mods. Thanks.
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by zargon 6d ago
This perspective that consciousness cannot be programmed can only make sense if you're a dualist. We don't know how consciousness arises. If you're a naturalist it can't be ruled out based on the simplicity of the algori
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by zargon 7d ago
Unpopular opinion, but for me, no amount of puzzles/story can offset the utter obnoxious frustration of the time loop.
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by zargon 8d ago
> I've been using AI increasingly more and more > genuinely We can tell.
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by zargon 24d ago
Thanks for this suggestion. I have used thumb trackballs before and they cause me some strain. But the Skylla looks very promising.
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by zargon 25d ago
The Glove80 looks close to what I want, but that thumb cluster looks basically as bad as the Ergodox one. Too many keys overall, especially pinky ones.
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by zargon 25d ago
AGPLv3 is awesome, great choice!
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by zargon 29d ago
Aris Mpitziopoulos at cybenetics.com
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by zargon 1mo ago
I'm not sure whether this comment is serious or not. Poe's law strikes again.
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by zargon 1mo ago
> Do not give yourself diabetes by eating vast amounts of sugar. If you are doing this, stop. Not having diabetes decreases CVD risk. Not eating vast quantities of sugar is good advice, but it's not the direct cause of T2 diabetes.
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by zargon 1mo ago
Yes, llama.cpp does that.
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by zargon 1mo ago
KL divergence is nothing close to a replacement for benchmarks. As flawed as benchmarks are, KL divergence is a barely useful signal. The fact that Unsloth only just started publishing KL divergences shows how unserious the quantization spa
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by zargon 1mo ago
As a replacement for ollama, LM Studio is probably the most appropriate. Though I haven't tried Unsloth Studio yet. You get more control using llama.cpp directly, but there's more of a learning curve. vLLM has the best performance
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by zargon 1mo ago
> ollama's model index typically only distinguishes variants by their size Don't use ollama. The entire project is just a series of stupid decisions like this.
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by zargon 1mo ago
I have hearing loss and movie theaters are deafening.
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by zargon 1mo ago
https://xkcd.com/605/
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by zargon 1mo ago
V4 Flash fits entirely in two RTX Pro 6000s without any quantization at all.
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by zargon 2mo ago
> The point of local models is privacy, offline use, and maybe no guard rails. But also, control and consistency. A local model cannot be changed out under your feet like an API model can be.
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by zargon 2mo ago
> emerging practice of using Q4 quants and Q8 KV cache for local inference That's not an emerging practice, it's a tested strategy that is these days only used as a last resort by those desperate to fit a model in memory. Some
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by zargon 2mo ago
I tried to evaluate Jellyfin recently but dropped it pretty quick. Live (OTA) television is barely a thought (seems to be acknowledged that no dev uses it), and you have to figure out a source for guide data. I have complaints with Plex&#x2
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by zargon 2mo ago
Probably not.
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by zargon 2mo ago
The name is abliterate. It's a specific method of ablation.
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by zargon 2mo ago
If you bought it from one of those ebay outfits that specialize in memory modules, they also often offer a lifetime warranty. Usually those sellers put their own sticker on the module. Worth a check.
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by zargon 2mo ago
> However, if you buy the CPU yourself, neither Intel nor AMD provides any guarantee that the CPU will work with overclocked memory. There's no guarantee that it works with standard clocked memory either.
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by zargon 2mo ago
If you don't have ECC, you don't even know that your CPU is executing the correct code. There goes the "detectable" part.
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by zargon 2mo ago
AMD, Intel, and motherboard manufacturers do qualify the CPUs and motherboards for "overclocked" (above JEDEC) memory speeds. The systems are designed to work at the overclocked transmission speeds. They need to be paired with mem
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by zargon 2mo ago
In practice it is no longer actually possible to create a new search index with anywhere near the breadth of Google, regardless of the amount of resources you have available. Google (and to a lesser extant the couple of other historic engin
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by zargon 2mo ago
You should be able to get the stick replaced under warranty. Every memory manufacturer I have ever seen has a lifetime warranty. As long as you RMA it before replacements become unavailable.
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by zargon 2mo ago
This is the attitude that needs to change. If RAM is 25% of the system cost (say for a home server in your example), then the cost for ECC is 3% of the system cost. There is no world where accepting data corruption in order to save 3% cost
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by zargon 2mo ago
There's not much worth playing coming from this group anyway.

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