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Comment · 8 months ago
I wonder - could this be used for multi-tier MoE? Eg. active + most used in VRAM, often used in RAM and less used in NVMe?
Comment · 8 months ago
I can imagine a couple scenarios in which a high-quality, large model would be much preferred over lower latency models, primarily when you need the quality.
Comment · 9 months ago
Why not use containers (eg. Podman) with secrets management?
Comment · 11 months ago
Sometimes you may need to deal with odd proprietary processors with limited and flawed knowledge about them.

For example, in the 37c3 talk "Breaking "DRM" in Polish trains" by the folks from Dragon Sector (I highly recommend watching it), they needed to reverse-engineer Tricore binaries, however they found the Ghidra implementation had bugs.

As for the PLCs, the IEC 61131-3 functional block diagrams transpile to C code which then compiles to Tricore binaries using an obscure GCC fork. Not saying that anyone would want to write Rust code for PLCs, but this is not uncommon in the world of embedded.

Comment · 1 year ago
If I had to wager a guess, bootc might get more actual use now that it's supported in RHEL 9.6 and 10 as "image mode". It's an exciting piece of technology, especially from the perspective of a platform engineer.

Also, bootc is a basis for the Universal Blue family of distros, especially Bazzite, which is very popular with gamers.

Comment · 2 years ago
Feels like a candidate for the Ig Nobel prize - and this is high praise!
Comment · 2 years ago
Holy hell, this is such a depressing, dehumanized, out-of-touch article—especially regarding the fascination with AI in the field of, admit it or not, art. The article even makes mistakes in the most basic factual areas, such as calling light novels "visual novels." It's deeply saddening.

For a more positive outlook on the animation industry, check out "Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!"—an incredibly creative love letter to the joy and passion of creating art through the lens of animation.

Comment · 2 years ago
While YMMV, some smaller companies and manufacturers offer boards based on ARM or RISC-V cores. Consider checking out the MNT Reform - likely one of the closest computers that while a bit impractical, fills the openness criteria.
Comment · 2 years ago
Any power tuning tips?
Comment · 2 years ago
The article doesn't seem to mention AWS, really. I also feel like the primary issue is the lack of communication and support, even for a large corporate partner.

Seems like they're moving to bare-metal, which has an obvious benefit of being able to tell your on-call engineer to fix the issue or die trying.

Comment · 3 years ago
Sending patches on mailing lists? Also TIL that patch (the UNIX program) was also created by Larry Wall.
Comment · 3 years ago
Relevance?
Comment · 4 years ago
SerenityOS is such an amazing project. "Oh, this thing would take a large team several years to build? Let's build it anyway!" The backstory behind the project is extremely admirable, too.
Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
This is not it, but the plot is somewhat similar to Makoto Shinkai's movie "Your Name."

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