that would be implying that "private" really means anything for AWS. Because if it's "private" as in "private" github repos that were totally not used for training copilot because they said so or "private" claude chats that are totally scanned even if you have enterprise contracts to check you are not doing anything malicious or are from china or whatever, and this will totally not be used for training...
can we trust any US based service to guarantee privacy and confidentiality? especially to us european frienemies?
It's basically impossible to find any game that isn't on GOG that is not shared as a repack. You don't get the installer, you don't get the original media, you have to trust that the repack is not filled with malware. (and also the repack process somewhat confuses wine/lutris. More than once i couldn't make the repack run on my linux box, but if i managed to find the genuine install medium.. or if i ended up buying the game on sale, then no problem)
really? I have to keep making useless updates (just a version number bump) on one of the accounts i manage, because i keep receiving thread emails every 6 months that the developer account sees no activity and if i don't do anything they will remove and close.
that app is a done project and need only to be udpated when the target SDK becomes too old for the play store
But cloud is what will enslave them to the corporation's will.
Google (of all companies!) demonstrated you can get useful stuff with reasonable performance with model running local on their smartphones.
Depending on your expecations you can get the local models running on a recent enough laptop, you just need 16GB of ram to be comfortable. It certainly exceeded my expectations (but i don't use the LLM to write code, only to do the real boring stuff: docs.)
I have not called musk redarded, i have called the idea retarded.
Same as master branch or master/slave communication idiocy. People that get this hung up really have too much free time on their hand, or have too much to gain in discussing language instead of discussing the actual problem.
For example: see how many commenters here are debating words instead of debating the validity of yet another hype-inducing value-pumping statement for clueless investors and fanboys.
On local fintech radio the week it was first announced they spent 3-4 days discussing the financial implication, then just one discussing the feasibility. Guess we're lucky we got one whole day of engineering discussing things for a change
oh, no it's exactly as jimmy valmer puts it, there is nothing against mentally disabled people, it is just it's something so stupid that one can't even decide were to start to describe all the points in which is stupid, so stupid doesn't possibly cut it
I've been trying local models for the boring stuff you might be thinking about: writing small docs.
So i've tested a couple, and the speed is finally impressive. My colleague uses paid tiers of claude and GPT, and the speed is comparable. Maybe even slightly faster on my end.
The problem is: i'm running the model on my work laptop, a 12th gen i5 with 16GB of RAM (which, you know, i asked to upgrade to 64, but that was right at the time of the great RAM shortage of the '20s) so i'm pretty limited in what i can use. And this is running alongside the usual suspects: Web browser hugging 1.5GB, MPLABX hugging 3, windows taking at least 5 just to sit idle, thermal throttled to 1GHz ... And yet its speed is comparable to a paid service. A lunch's worth of tokens vs a few cents of power.
So, what i found, what i fount...
What i found is that i need AT LEAST 16k of context window, otherwise they will halt when i pass a small C file for analysis. And coding models will shit the bed with 4k. But we all know that, context size is King.
I found out that Qwen will keep looping while thinking, but that's not a surprise to you, either. But give it enough time and you will get an useful answer. I was hoping to using it as a better warning system for some languages, but i fear i need muuuch more context size, because i tried to feed a file that had a function with an endless loop:
At 4k context it almost shit the bed if i gave it just the offending function, then told it where to look at.
At 16k context, with the whole file, it needed some guidance to what the problem was, and after 10-15 minutes of thinking it found the issue. Problem is, it kept second guessing itself for another 20 minutes on the same unrelated thing before giving the output. For which the fix was wrong, but the semanthic was correct. Good enough. Maybe it will be faster if i don't ask for a fix (which i didn't i just asked to look for a specific issue)
Wish i had 3 times the RAM so i can see what happens with more context.
Then i gave it the task to analyze a C file to make an API document. It took half an hour, but then i had a good starting point, which i had to keep changing because it would confuse commands with IDs and things like that.
This was the Qwen 3.5 9B model.
I then tested Gemma 4, being impressed at the tokens per second it gives on my Pixel 8A. Same tasks: same issues with short context, with long context it gave absolutely useless answers when looking at code, but it took 1/3 the time of qwen.
In producing documentation, instead, it was much faster, and it never hallucinated data. Good. in 15 minutes i had everything done.
Not bad for stuff running on a business laptop, while doing actual work.
Tomorrow i will try Qwen 3.6, let's see how it goes..
Full blown war: putin scared that more territories will want to join the EU block. No internal wars and more countries wishing to enter the block.
Powerless without american hardware and intelligence: You wish. Big tech is spending so much lobbying our governments in fear of us leaving them for open solutions, or god forbid paying fair amount of taxes.
And regarding intelligence, we would have been so much better without the CIA & co spying our politicians and messing with our governments, aiding and sponsoring domestic right wing terrorism for the past 50 years.
can we trust any US based service to guarantee privacy and confidentiality? especially to us european frienemies?