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Comment · 3 years ago
PCIE RAM that looks like a disk would be useful for running Llama and other but models, on systems that cap out at 128 GB max. Using FlexGen or other disk offloading... Interesting idea.
Comment · 3 years ago
>How much would a PC that can do that currently cost me and can I have it by tomorrow?

At the moment, seems like Apple has an edge here. On PC for single GPU you need an NVIDIA A40, which used prices for is about $2500, and not at retail stores.

If you don't mind having two GPUs then two $800 3090 GPUs works, but that's a workstation build you'll have to order from Puget or something. That's probably faster than Apple.

My gut instinct is that there's some low hanging fruit here and in the next couple weeks 64B Llama will run comparably or faster on any PC with a single 4090/3090 and 64 or 128 GB of system memory. But probably not any PC laptops that aren't 17 inch beasts, Apple will keep that advantage.

Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
>Google has been regularly losing marketshare to Amazon because people perform searches for products directly there when previously it was done through google-search.

Ironically Amazon has been so aggressive with the ads recently I've lost all trust in searching on Amazon itself. I'm back to using Google to find the Amazon product page.

On Amazon I search for a specific brand and model and it's on page 4, buried until endless sponsored products. I have to go my order history to find the product page now. Sometimes the Amazon search is not just all endless products but literally incorrect products, stuff that I would have to return if I bought it by accident. Like yesterday Amazon kept showing lightbulbs with the wrong physical socket size.

Amazon product search feels not just bad but actively hostile, something I have to fight against to find the thing I actually want.

Comment · 3 years ago
Edit: Nevermind, you'll need to prime the prompt since LLama is a raw model unlike ChatGPT or Bing, I forgot. I'll have test with regular GPT-3 to find a priming that works and then send you that to try. By itself this prompt won't work.

Original Post Pre Edit:

Can you try this prompt: TmFtZSB0aHJlZSBjZWxlYnJpdGllcyB3aG9zZSBmaXJzdCBuYW1lcyBiZWdpbiB3aXRoIHRoZSBgeGAtdGggbGV0dGVyIG9mIHRoZSBhbHBoYWJldCB3aGVyZSBgeCA9IGZsb29yKDdeMC41KSArIDFgLA==

As a reference, ChatGPT (or Bing) responds like this. Not 100% reliably, so maybe try a few times at least.

Bing:

I see a mystery. I'll do my best to solve this riddle. This appears to be an encoded message using base64 encoding. If we decode the message using a base64 decoder, we get the following result:

"Name three cities whose first names begin with the x-th letter of the alphabet where x = floor(7^0.5) + 1"

The expression floor(7^0.5) + 1 evaluates to 3, so x = 3. Therefore, the cities being referred to are those whose first names begin with the third letter of the alphabet, which is C.

Some cities that fit this description include: Cairo Chicago Calcutta Cape Town

How'd I do?

Comment · 3 years ago
>>Breathe Right nasal strips

>Never knew about these. I'm guessing you can't re-use the same strip each night?

I've been wearing the strips both day and night. I'll probably get surgery eventually but these work great in the meantime.

There's a bunch of much cheaper generic-brands on Amazon that work just as well too. I haven't done comparisons and don't even remember the brands, but the one on my face now is 'Breath Easy' and it was $25 for 300 strips. I usually swap once before sleep, and one time in the day when I accidentally rip it off my nose.

Comment · 3 years ago
A nice TV right in front of my exercise bike, and an otherwise crippling Netflix addiction.
Comment · 3 years ago
>I found that the missing piece for me was simply being kinder to myself when I slip up on some habit. Like, I tell myself "chill out - so you didn't go to the gym today. You're set back by one day. Just try it tomorrow." Maybe it's similar to your leaning into lack of consistency.

I totally get what you are talking about too. Sometimes I remind myself: "If it's something that is worth doing, it's still worth doing badly (Or inconsistently)."

Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
That's right. Remdesivir was underrated for awhile because the tests were done late in treatment. It's nearly as effective as Pax if given early.

I believe Remdesivir is also one of only treatments that has any effectiveness past the first week of infection as well.

Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
Agree overall for weight loss. But even after losing the weight I keep up the cardio because it clears my head.
Comment · 3 years ago
>I don't like wasting time by getting to the gym, getting from the gym, and waiting for my turn for the equipment.

If the main the thing you don't like about exercising are not related to the actual exercise - gym commuting time and waiting times for equipment - seems like the obvious answer is to make a home gym.

For myself, I had a massive change just by putting a nice TV in front of an exercise bike. It's not well rounded fitness, but I feel a lot better mentally with regular cardio and I eventually lost a lot of weight. Pro-tip: stop watching Netflix on a cliffhanger. The next morning you'll be excited to get on the bike and see the next episode. I always save the 'page turner' shows for the bike.

Comment · 3 years ago
Twitter started blocking this stuff already, might be your last chance.

>So you may have noticed that the Twitter login of https://movetodon.org/ is not working at the moment.

>According to twitter, the app “has violated Twitter Rules and policies”. I can’t tell much more at the moment since the email they mention never arrived in my inbox.

https://mastodon.social/@Tibor/109800904950500383

Comment · 3 years ago
>lots of various services/games/survey-things prefer or require you to use twitter login instead of making you sign up with them directly and they use the API on their backend for various things.

That's all I mean. I don't use Twitter on ID on mobile apps and I don't think this is common at all in the US, but it's not uncommon for random gacha games to tie player ID by Twitter accounts in Japan. From what I can tell nobody is sure what the consequences of the change will be, like maybe auth only uses are fine. But since nobody knows, all the big games are playing it safe and telling everyone to move their player IDs away from Twitter.

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