I lived in three different countries in my life, and neither of them have been the US, but all of them have apparently had free South Park episodes available to them :)
I don't know if that website works/shows full episodes in the US, currently I'm in a EU country and everything except the last two seasons seems available.
> I'm curious how many engineers per year this costs to maintain
The end of the article has this:
> Consider custom infrastructure when you have both: sufficient scale for meaningful cost savings, and specific constraints that enable a simple solution. The engineering effort to build and maintain your system must be less than the infrastructure costs it eliminates. In our case, specific requirements (ephemeral storage, loss tolerance, S3 fallback) let us build something simple enough that maintenance costs stay low. Without both factors, stick with managed services.
> There you’ll see the 10 Cortex-X925 (“performance”) cores listed with a peak clock rate of 4 GHz, along with the 10 Cortex-A725 (“efficiency”) cores listed with a peak clock rate of 2.8 GHz
> If you start Python and ask it how many CPU cores you have, it will count both kinds of cores and report 20
> Note that because of the speed difference between the cores, you will want to ensure there is some form of dynamic scheduling in your application that can load balance between the different core types.
Sounds like a new type of hell where I now not only need to manage the threads themselves, but also take into account what type of core they run on, and Python straight up report them as the same.
There wasn't any instructions how the author got ollama/llama.cpp, could possibly be something nvidia shipped with the DGX Spark and is an old version?
I remember many similar cycles of having different browsers open side-by-side, and trying to pinpoint (without the developer tools we know and love today) the exact reason why one border was one pixel in one browser, and two pixels in the other, throwing the whole layout off.
Also remembering when Firebug for Firefox appeared, and made so many things so much easier. Suddenly things that took hours took days, and it was so much easier when you had some introspection tools.
> defining AGI as matching the cognitive versatility and proficiency of a well-educated adult
Seems most of the people one would encounter out in the world might not posses AGI, how are we supposed to be able to train our electrified rocks to have AGI if this is the case?
If no one has created a online quiz called "Are you smarter than AGI?" yet based on the proposed "ten core cognitive domains", I'd be disappointed.
People use separate computers for wide range of reasons. My desktop isn't always running Linux for example, or even from the same partition always, and to run something 24/7 I need to host it not on my for-work desktop. I also run some less trusted software on separate server and network than say Home Assistant and Frigate.
I think it's broken, yeah. I think the whole "art for money" thing doesn't make sense in general and something else has to be figured out. Artists should be able to survive without depending on things like "perfectly competitive goods" or whatever.
> I bet if something like that happened, it'd quickly soar to $0.2 an episode in the next year, then slowly creep up more and more
Yeah probably, until they find the point where more people leave because it's too expensive than they'll earn by raising prices, then they'll oscillate or find a new direction. Isn't that how capitalism is supposed to work?
> probably around when South Park left Netflix, I started pirating again
Unrelated, but fun example as South Park is probably the only show on TV that also let people watch the entire show (-latest seasons it seems) for free online! https://www.southparkstudios.com/seasons/south-park
Been like that (in many places) for many many years at this point too :)
Let me pay $0.1 for each episode I watch, make everything available and route to the right entity that should be paid and then offer one cross-platform client that everyone pooled their efforts into. And since we're dreaming, make it a open collaboration with a FOSS client too.
I'd predict most of the piracy would again disappear quickly as long as it's better, faster and has virtually everything people wanna watch. Basically replicate what Spotify did, but more open, so closer to what Grooveshark tried to do I guess.
> Even if you subscribed to them all you'd still not have everything
And even if you could get all the video itself, it's not guaranteed you'd get the right video+audio+subtitles combination that you want, as everything seems to be negotiated separately.
So while one service could offer the right audio and the right video but not the subtitles you want, another service could have the right video and the right subtitles but instead be dubbed without original audio.
It became a whole mess for people and eventually it was again simpler to just resort to piracy for the even the slightly technical consumers.
> The cost of creating new computers has got to be pretty high to the environment
But aren't those made regardless if the people with old computers upgrade to them or not? I guess over time, they'll make less if people buy less, but the ones we'd purchase today has already been made, and might as well replace less energy efficient devices than just being added to the global count.
And I thought it was about a stick with flammable material on top. Probably the truth sits somewhere in the middle and this is a stick for communication.
LED walls are cool (and cheap via China) otherwise, and you can start small and then expand if you want since it's relatively modular, just a bunch of square LED panels linked together. You would need a driver though which you may or may not be able to hide behind/somewhere else, makes it kind of bulky compared to just a vertical TV :)
> Not that I understand much of what they say, but it appears there are a lot of correctness bugs in pytorch that are flying under the radar, probably having a measurable impact on the results of model quality.
Do you have any links to public thoughts about this? As if it was true, could mean a lot of research could be invalidated, so obviously would make huge news.
Also feels like something that would be relatively easy to make reproducible test cases from, so easy to prove if that's true or not.
And finally if something is easy to validate, and would make huge news, I feel like someone would already have attempted to prove this, and if it was true, would have published something a long time ago.
Huh, that's interesting, I'm not too familiar with US law, so not surprising I didn't know that :) Time to lookup if it works similarly in my country today, last time I was involved with anything slightly related to it was almost two decades ago, and at that point we (as a company with legal consul) made choices that assumed public info was OK to use, as it was public (paraphrased from memory), but might look differently today.
Thanks a lot for the pointers, I think I've done a similar approach to what you suggest, lots of tiny (relative) tests for each step in the process, and doing sort of sanity checking between the naive stuff I first wrote which works and which does inference correctly, and the new kernel which is a lot more performant, but currently incorrect and produces incoherent outputs.
I'll try to replace bits by simplified versions though, probably could help at least getting closer to knowing where the issue is.
Anyone have more debugging tips I'd greatly appreciate it! Nothing is too small or "obvious", as I'm about to lose my mind more or less.