SillyUsername

há 12 diasdiscuss

I don't know tbh, I run Qwen 3.6 27B, Q6, on two 5060TIs with 128K context (2 parallel, 256K total) and get better fairly good performance. It's not perfect, but that's why I also use a low quant Gemma 4 validation model to confirm outputs. It's probably comparable to early chatgpt in terms of ability.

SillyUsername

há 16 diasdiscuss

And a number of Qwen variants are available to self host. Do Anthropic have any like that?

SillyUsername

há 26 diasdiscuss

You may want to consider using a feature flag API if you think it will be unmaintainable.

Strategy patterns and code-centralised feature management ftw :)

SillyUsername

há 3 mesesdiscuss

Space programmes have this issue too - everything had to be relearnt and un-obsoleted for Artemis Moonshots

SillyUsername

há 3 mesesdiscuss

We used to flip display upside down in display options, which also reverses the mouse. We'd then lock the PC and disconnect the keyboard. After they figured out the keyboard had been pulled they often couldn't work out why their screen was upside down...

SillyUsername

há 4 mesesdiscuss

I've only an A-Level in Further Maths from 1997, but understand complex numbers and have come across complex inverse trig functions before.

My takeaway for other people like me from this is "computer is correct" because the proof shows that we can't define arccosh using a single proof across the entire complex plane (specifically imaginary, including infinity).

The representation of this means we have both complex functions that are defined as having coverage of infinity, and arccosh, that a proof exists in only one direction at a time during evaluation.

This distinction is a quirk in mathematics but means that the equation won't be simplified because although it looks like it can, the underlying proof is "one sided" (-ve or +ve) which means the variables are fundamentally not the same at evaluation time unless 2 approaches to the range definition are combined.

The QED is that this distinction won't be shown in the result's representation, leading to the confusion that it should have been simplified.

SillyUsername

há 5 mesesdiscuss

Also, cheaper... X99 + 8x DDR4 + 2696V4 + 4x Tesla P4s running on llama.cpp. Total cost about $500 including case and a 650W PSU, excluding RAM. Running TDP about 200W non peak 550W peak (everything slammed, but I've never seen it and I've an AC monitor on the socket). GLM 4.5 Air (60GB Q3-XL) when properly tuned runs at 8.5 to 10 tokens / second, with context size of 8K. Throw in a P100 too and you'll see 11-12.5 t/s (still tuning this one). Performance doesn't drop as much for larger model sizes as the internode communication and DDR4 2400 is the limiter, not the GPUs. I've been using this with 4 channel 96GB ram, recently updated to 128GB.

SillyUsername

há 9 mesesdiscuss

Won't happen. They'll buy the next indie game studio that is successful, chew on their profits, then tank that, rinse repeat.

SillyUsername

há 10 mesesdiscuss

A lot of apologists say that "a human would have hit that".

That's kind of irrelevant, this technology is meant to be safer and held to a higher standard.

Comparing to a human is not a valid excuse...

SillyUsername

há 10 mesesdiscuss

Well you're wrong on all accounts of the veiled insults.

Also, I've not stated LGBT, this has nothing to do with it, it's weird you'd even mention it.

SillyUsername

há 10 mesesdiscuss

I imagine it might be limited by number of layers and you'll get diminishing returns as well at some point caused by network latency.

SillyUsername

há 10 mesesdiscuss

The irony of this is that Gen-Z have been mollycoddled with praise by their parents and modern life, we give medals for participation, or runners up prizes for losing. We tell people when they've failed at something they did their best and that's what matters. We validate their upset feelings if they're insulted by free speech that goes against their beliefs.

This is exactly what is happening with sycophantic LLMs, to a greater extent, but now it's affecting other generations, not just Gen-Z.

Perhaps it's time to rollback this behaviour in the human population too, and no I'm not talking reinstating discipline and old Boomer/Gen-X practices, I'm meaning that we need to allow more failure and criticism without comfort and positive reinforcement.

SillyUsername

há 10 mesesdiscuss

Amazing.

Until I read this article I didn't properly understand Fourier transforms (I didn't know how image compression bitmaps were derived), now it's opened a whole new world - toying with my own compression and anything that can be continuous represented as it's constituent parts.

I can use it for colour quantisation too possibly to determine main and averaged RGB constituents with respect to hue, allowing colour reduction akin to dithering, spreading the error over the wave instead and removing the less frequent elements.

It may not work but it'll be fun trying and learning!

SillyUsername

há 10 mesesdiscuss

I miss the days of Sun Solaris' CDE desktop.

Afterstep looks too much like Stardock's Window Blinds from around 2000 (see the weird glass effect, font etc), but Etolie seems to nail the aesthetic for me.

I hope this comes back, I'd love to use it on an old netbook I have for accessing my servers remotely.

SillyUsername

há 10 mesesdiscuss

It's running RDP to a Winboat docker image hosting the app and rendering the container on the desktop. This includes audio forwarding.

SillyUsername

há 10 mesesdiscuss

Amazon also didn't read the room when it fired most of its Alexa staff just as GenAI was taking off.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/17/amazon-cuts-several-hundred-...

Of course not being able to monetise Alexa has always been a problem, but these and the article's issues are all to do with poor planning and top tier business direction.

SillyUsername

há 10 mesesdiscuss

Respectfully, you mean https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

SillyUsername

há 10 mesesdiscuss

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SillyUsername

há 11 mesesdiscuss

I think that might have been an own goal on that link. The comment on the article sums it up nicely. Also can you trust the data source - a government body that wants to enact more control?

If there's independent studies great, especially world wide (the US can be a bit insular), but as someone in the UK I dont see anything but disdain for ID checking age-gating.

Even other political parties are saying they'll roll it back if they get in power, which if they're betting the farm on that policy, must have considerable public influence.

SillyUsername

há 11 mesesdiscuss

Sure it's problem but one that doesn't need a state nanny.

Kids could always get jazz mags from friends, find VHS tapes, be told stories, see topless women etc.

The difference here is that it's easier, but that's partly caused by indifference and technical illiteracy.

If it was a serious enough problem to warrant government intervention the larger public would be championing this cause.

They aren't.

That's not even withstanding that soft porn is often just people showing their bodies, which should never be a problem.

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