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Randor
·11 ay önce·discuss
Microsoft allows you create a second "login only" account username to access your e-mail and other services. I was having the same problem as you but much worse. Check into it, only takes a few minutes to setup.
Randor
·2 yıl önce·discuss
That was a long read. Just be happy that you never had to deal with Trigraphs. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/c-language/trigraphs?v...
Randor
·2 yıl önce·discuss
A brilliant idea, maybe all software should block DLL without English names. Could even incorporate the new technique into the operating system.
Randor
·2 yıl önce·discuss
It's a very common security technique to avoid being targeted by malware. I believe even the Microsoft KSLDriver drops randomly named DLL and device drivers along with creating a randomly named system service. Uses 8 hex characters.

Several third-party vendors use the same technique, mostly security vendors.
Randor
·2 yıl önce·discuss
Some horrible code in there too:

https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/xre/dll...

Indiscriminate blocking of any DLL in the world with 12/6 hex digit filenames.
Randor
·2 yıl önce·discuss
Looks like Moonshine is competing against the Whisper-tiny model. There isn't any information in the paper to see how it compares to the larger whisper-large-v3.
Randor
·2 yıl önce·discuss
Yeah, I get what you're saying but both are challenging the current MatMul methods. The L-Mul paper claims "a power savings of 95%" and that is the thread topic. Bitnet proves that at least 70% is possible by getting rid of MatMul.
Randor
·2 yıl önce·discuss
> I don't know what that means. It seems like some dubious math with percentages.

I would start by downloading a 1.58 model such as: https://huggingface.co/HF1BitLLM/Llama3-8B-1.58-100B-tokens

Run the non-quantized version of the model on your 3090/4090 gpu and observe the power draw. Then load the 1.58 model and observe the power usage. Sure, the numbers have a wide range because there are many gpu/npu to make the comparison.
Randor
·2 yıl önce·discuss
The energy claims up to ~70% can be verified. The inference implementation is here:

https://github.com/microsoft/BitNet
Randor
·2 yıl önce·discuss
I know you guys are joking, but there use to be a Microsoft energy drink, that was only available to employees.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Microsoft+employee+Talking+R...

The blue one actually tasted really good. Was available on campus for several years in nearly every building. :)