Randor
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Comment · 1 year ago
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.
Comment · 1 year ago
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...
Comment · 1 year ago
A brilliant idea, maybe all software should block DLL without English names. Could even incorporate the new technique into the operating system.
Comment · 1 year ago
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.
Comment · 1 year ago
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.
Comment · 2 years ago
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.
Comment · 2 years ago
No, if I remember correctly it was a local beverage company. It wasn't unusual for Microsoft to back local businesses. I remember a very talented Indian software engineer that left Microsoft and purchased 3 "food trucks" and decided to serve food instead, true story. He parked his truck outside building 88 for a few years.
Comment · 2 years ago
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.
Comment · 2 years ago
> 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.
Comment · 2 years ago
The energy claims up to ~70% can be verified. The inference implementation is here:
Comment · 2 years ago
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. :)
Comment · 2 years ago
Yes, it was me that backported some of that telemetry to both Windows 8.1 and Windows 7, circa 2015 when I was working on the WU team but we used WER to upload that to our endpoints. I don't think there was any telemetry at all before 2015 in the base operating system.
Comment · 2 years ago
What Windows 7 telemetry are you referring to? Other than WER, there was no telemetry in Windows 7 to my knowledge. There was an update a few years ago that back ported telemetry to Windows 7 right before the final stage of extended support and final EOL.
It seems to get shell scripts right most of the time.