bekantan

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Comment · 4 months ago

Amazing software, thanks!

Comment · 1 year ago

Still on XMonad, what are some good alternatives?

Comment · 1 year ago

Any significant differences in charging experience? Can you use Tesla Supercharging network?

Comment · 1 year ago

Joscha Bach's talk: https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-self-models-of-loving-grace

Comment · 1 year ago

It would indeed be better to create appropriately sized storage.

However, I don't think that underlying array is resized every time `add` is called. I'd expect that resize will happen less than 30 times for 1M adds (capacity grows geometrically with a=10 and r=1.5)

Comment · 1 year ago

I was in SF back in May, but didn't manage to get through the waitlist :(

It was so cool to see them diving around.

Interestingly, when I showed the clips to some of my senior family members, they didn't seem interested at all. I think they couldn't comprehend what was going on, even after I explained.

Their (several independent trials) reaction was similar to showing them some AI-generated image of something which clearly can't exist. It was so absurd that it was just filtered out with a comment "yeah, yeah - nice car".

Comment · 2 years ago

A “productivity hack” for folks who can’t afford this and already own iPad+Pencil which they primarily use indoors: switch to grayscale mode, it is awesome :)

Comment · 2 years ago

You can try it yourself on https://chat.lmsys.org (sus-column-r model)

Comment · 2 years ago

> The output quality is not "ruined" at all.

That was my experience as well - 3-bit version is pretty good.

I also tried 2-bit version, which was disappointing.

However, there is a new 2-bit approach in the works[1] (merged yesterday) which performs surprisingly well for Mixtral 8x7B Instruct with 2.10 bits per weight (12.3 GB model size).

[1] https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/pull/4773

Comment · 2 years ago

Worth reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasenovac_concentration_camp

> Operated by the governing Ustaše regime, Europe's only Nazi collaborationist regime that operated its own extermination camps

> It quickly grew into the third largest concentration camp in Europe

> Unlike German Nazi-run camps, Jasenovac lacked the infrastructure for mass murder on an industrial scale, such as gas chambers. Instead, it "specialized in one-on-one violence of a particularly brutal kind", and prisoners were primarily murdered with the use of knives, hammers, and axes, or shot

> Ustaše regime having murdered somewhere near 100,000 people in Jasenovac between 1941 and 1945

Flower Monument on Spomenik Database: https://www.spomenikdatabase.org/jasenovec

Comment · 2 years ago

I didn't try the other ones, but the one I mentioned is the most frictionless way to use several different LLMs I came across so far. I had very low expectations, but this package has good sauce

Comment · 2 years ago

Also worth checking out for more general use of LLMs in emacs: https://github.com/karthink/gptel

Comment · 2 years ago

I asked what happened last week in one specific region of Europe, and the answer contained a list of relevant events among which was the one I was looking for.

Then I asked it to tell more about the specific item and it gave me a decent answer (model: pplx-7b-online).

Pretty good experience so far.

Comment · 2 years ago

I don't mind paying, but I want to have a Linux workstation.

What would be x86 alternative in that price range (if any)? Xeons with HBM are more expensive IIRC

Comment · 3 years ago

Could someone recommend a book (ideally including problems sets with solutions) to get basic understanding of queuing theory?