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Show HN: Alpaca.cpp – Run an Instruction-Tuned Chat-Style LLM on a MacBook
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- cc189000 4y agowrite me python code for autoclick
- gigel82 4y agoDoes it have any Apple M2 / ARM specific dependencies / optimizations, or will it generally run on any CPU (x86)?
- huseyinkeles 4y agoI'm getting bunch of errors on an Intel mac, starts with the following, which suggests that it's about the CPU architecture, but maybe I'm wrong. sysctl: unknown oid 'hw.optional.arm64'
- cuttothechase 4y agoI am getting the same error on an Intel Mac.
- strikingloo 4y agosame problem, haven't found a solution. Please let me know if you do
- strikingloo 4y agoOkay for what is worth, I was getting that as a warning but the ./chat executable works anyway. So give it a try if it is being compiled!
- antimatter15 4y agoIt inherits from ARM NEON optimizations in llama.cpp but I believe it should also work on x86.
- gpderetta 4y agoit built in a couple of seconds with no issues on my x86 machine. Downloading weights now.
- gorbypark 4y agoSomeone contributed AVX2 support a few days after the initial release, so llama.cpp (and the alpaca.cpp fork) should work on most x86 CPUs as well now.
- inaka10100101 4y agoCan we run it in colab. It isn't working for me.
- mil22 4y agoRuns fine on WSL2: main: seed = 1678990693 llama_model_load: loading model from 'ggml-alpaca-7b-q4.bin' - please wait ... llama_model_load: ggml ctx size = 4529.34 MB llama_model_load: memory_size = 512.00 MB, n_mem = 16384 llama_model_load: loading model part 1/1 from 'ggml-alpaca-7b-q4.bin' llama_model_load: .................................... done llama_model_load: model size = 4017.27 MB / num tensors = 291 system_info: n_threads = 4 / 32 | AVX = 1 | AVX2 = 1 | AVX512 = 0 | FMA = 1 | NEON = 0 | ARM_FMA = 0 | F16C = 1 | FP16_VA = 0 | WASM_SIMD = 0 | BLAS = 0 | SSE3 = 1 | VSX = 0 | main: interactive mode on. sampling parameters: temp = 0.100000, top_k = 40, top_p = 0.950000, repeat_last_n = 64, repeat_penalty = 1.300000 == Running in chat mode. == - Press Ctrl+C to interject at any time. - Press Return to return control to LLaMa. - If you want to submit another line, end your input in '\'. > What is an alpaca? An Alpaca (Vicugna pacos) is one of two species in the genus Vicuña, which are both domesticated animals from South America and Central Asia that have been bred for their fine wool. >
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- lxe 4y agoIt does run on either with decent speed. Probably can even do it on a rasberry pi 4.
- unshavedyak 4y agoWorks fine on my x86. Running Linux (NixOS). Ryzen 5950x.
- smy20011 4y agoAlpaca model leaked again?
- Shank 4y agoNo, this is an open reproduction of Alpaca on the leaked LLaMA 7B weight set.
- thewataccount 4y agoThis isn't actually a direct reproduction. It's a bit missleading because it only says it at the bottom. This actually uses LORAs which train way faster and are much more flexible, but they perform a little worse. There is someone that is doing a direct reproduction of Alpaca in the alpaca repo issues though. > The weights are based on the published fine-tunes from alpaca-lora
- GaggiX 4y ago>they perform a little worse. Be aware that LoRA performs on-par or better than fine-tuning in model quality if trained correctly as the paper shows: https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.09685 https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.09685
- thewataccount 4y agoAh thank you for the correction this is good to know! I'll admit I'm not super experienced with them directly. I think the current LoRAs for Alpaca are reportedly performing a little bit worse - I'm guessing from a lack of optimization so I'm sure it'll improve.
- tarruda 4y agoLooking forward to try it, but I don't have a macbook. I wonder if it runs on i7-11800h (8 core 16 thread CPU) with 64gb RAM
- kristianp 4y agoWould that require porting llama to OpenVino?
- zitterbewegung 4y agoAlpaca.cpp is a derivative of llama.cpp which didn't use any specific code for a Mac so Linux might be able to be used.
- tarruda 4y agoThe answer is yes: It ran on a x86 virtual machine with 4 CPU threads and 12gb of RAM
- unshavedyak 4y agoI'm using this exact repo on Linux (NixOS), right now. Wish i could run the 60B model, this 7B model is a bit weird.
- phren0logy 4y ago@antimatter15 - how much ram does your M2 MacBook Air have? Performance looks very good. Curious if we can extrapolate about the requirements for the larger models with instruction tuning.
- zitterbewegung 4y agoUsing the scripts from llama.cpp I was able to run the 65B model on my M1 Max which used ~40 GB of RAM. With 32GB you should be able to run 33B and lower. See https://gist.github.com/zitterbewegung/4787e42617aa0be6019c3db526d5d6fd https://gist.github.com/zitterbewegung/4787e42617aa0be6019c3...
- AndroidKitKat 4y agoNo chance I'd be able to run this on an 8GB M1 Mac mini then? Looking to hook this up to an IRC bot for a bit of fun with my friends and have this spare Mac lying around.
- zitterbewegung 4y ago7B will be fine I have heard people getting llama working on a nexus 6
- madmads 4y agoThe 7b model loads on a lot less than 8GB RAM, so you should be good to use it on an 8GB M1 Mac Mini. It takes very little time to set up, so it's worth trying to find out.
- AndroidKitKat 4y agoYeah I'll get this set up when I'm home from work! Perhaps the trickiest part for me is going to be hooking it up to IRC, but that's the fun part!
- phren0logy 4y agoThanks!
- siraben 4y agoAre there torrents for 13B and up as well?
- dmw_ng 4y agoThe LoRa weights for 13B are on huggingface ( https://huggingface.co/samwit/alpaca13B-lora https://huggingface.co/samwit/alpaca13B-lora ), it should be possible to follow the instructions linked in the Alpaca.cpp readme to merge those weights into the base 13B model, then just just follow the usual Llama.cpp conversion and quantization steps Note LoRa fine tunes aren't the same as the original Alpaca, LoRa results in some performance loss (although how much isn't clear)
- bogwog 4y agoDoes this really need to be a fork of llama.cpp? It seems like there's no real changes to the code.
- antimatter15 4y agoIt reworks the interactive mode into a chat interface, which -if my code was cleaner- could have just been a pull request.
- ggerganov 4y ago"Clean Code, Horrible Performance" :)
- doctoboggan 4y agoThere is an interactive mode in llama.cpp https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/blob/master/main.cpp#L988 https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/blob/master/main.cpp#... EDIT: I see now you are saying you re-worked the existing interactive mode. I still think your changes could be a PR into the original repo
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- xiphias2 4y agoAlpaca model is llama trained on ChatGPT, it's basically a way of getting cheaply what OpenAI did after the GPT training....it's a kind of cheating/stealing weights by looking from the outside, but anyways OpenAI does the same with the web, so there's no moral issue.
- boywitharupee 4y ago> cheating/stealing weights by looking from the outside What do you mean by this? Can you please elaborate.
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- doctoboggan 4y agoI am hoping the actual Alpaca weights leak at some point. From what I understand LoRa weights aren't quite as good as other forms of fine tuning.
- antimatter15 4y agoFrom my experimentation it seems like there's some significant loss in accuracy running the tuned LoRa models through llama.cpp (due to bugs/differences in inference or tokenization), even aside from losses due to quantization.
- loxias 4y agoLook at the changeset :) It contains a link for "ggml-alpaca-7b-14.bin". Because there's no substantive change to the code, I assume this fork exists (and this HN post exists) purely as a method to distribute the weights.
- Tiberium 4y agoYou're misinterpreting the comment a bit, the poster above is asking for the original Alpaca weights. The code in the repo uses a reproduction of Alpaca with different training code and method of fine-tune (LoRA).
- GaggiX 4y agoThere is no reason to leak the Alpaca weights, finetuning the model is not that expensive, eventually someone will finetune one and release it. (Also LoRA should performs on-par or better than fine-tuning in model quality)
- ComplexSystems 4y agoThere are different fine tuning methods. Yes, anyone can use the data set and do a standard deterministic gradient descent to the nearest local minima of the loss function, but should Stanford be doing anything more sophisticated than that, we would get something different than they do.
- n8cpdx 4y agoDoes anyone know how much context this supports? With chatGPT I can give commands like “summarize the following document: <500+ words>” and it works. I’d love to be able to do this locally with my obsidian notes.
- ddren 4y agoThe llama models were trained with a context size of 2048. By default llama.cpp limits it to 512, but you can use -c 2048 -n 2048 to get the full context window.
- worldsayshi 4y ago2048 words?
- teaearlgraycold 4y agoTokens
- doctoboggan 4y ago2048 "tokens", where one token is roughly equivalent to ¾ of a word
- wongarsu 4y agoTokens. Short or common words tend to be one token, while less common words are composed of multiple tokens. For GPT OpenAI gives the rule of thumb that on average you need four tokens to encode three words, and LLaMA should be similar
- worldsayshi 4y agoWell that's for sure bigger than my context size.
- ddren 4y agoCould you share what you did to convert the models? The mirrors aren't very reliable and it would be good to have it documented somewhere. There is some discussion about this at https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/issues/172 https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/issues/172
- antimatter15 4y agoThere's a script in the alpaca-lora repo for converting the weights back into a PyTorch dump- and my changes have since been merged https://github.com/tloen/alpaca-lora/pull/19 https://github.com/tloen/alpaca-lora/pull/19
- yieldcrv 4y agowait, so although Stanford didn't release their code, it was enough inspiration for people to retrain/fine tune the Llama models on their own?
- doctoboggan 4y agoThey didn't release their code or weights, but they did release the training data, which is what was used to create the LoRa here.
- yieldcrv 4y agoah, right I did notice that because people were running queries into the training data. why is there a general assumption that unreleased unreleased weights are better? is that something we can do, a free-weights community that solves this recurring issue?
- gorbypark 4y agoIf I am not mistaken, they actually did release their code. Yesterday there was a change to the repo that added a train.py file. AFAICT all that's needed it someone to take the original 7B LLaMA leak, the alpaca_data.json file and run train.py on some beefy hardware. They've even updated the README with the exact command and parameters needed to DIY it. I'm somewhat expecting that there will be a release by someone in the next few days.
- doctoboggan 4y agoThat's awesome! I think I remember them saying it was only around ~$500 in compute costs to train so I hope we see those weights released soon. I am hoping someone releases the 13B model fine-tuned.
- throwaway1851 4y ago$100. “For our initial run, fine-tuning a 7B LLaMA model took 3 hours on 8 80GB A100s, which costs less than $100 on most cloud compute providers. We note that training efficiency can be improved to further reduce the cost.” ($500 was what they paid OpenAI to generate the fine-tuning dataset.)
- tarruda 4y agoMy first attempt: $ ./chat main: seed = 1678992123 llama_model_load: loading model from 'ggml-alpaca-7b-q4.bin' - please wait ... llama_model_load: ggml ctx size = 4529.34 MB llama_model_load: memory_size = 512.00 MB, n_mem = 16384 llama_model_load: loading model part 1/1 from 'ggml-alpaca-7b-q4.bin' llama_model_load: .................................... done llama_model_load: model size = 4017.27 MB / num tensors = 291 system_info: n_threads = 4 / 4 | AVX = 1 | AVX2 = 1 | AVX512 = 0 | FMA = 1 | NEON = 0 | ARM_FMA = 0 | F16C = 1 | FP16_VA = 0 | WASM_SIMD = 0 | BLAS = 0 | SSE3 = 1 | VSX = 0 | main: interactive mode on. sampling parameters: temp = 0.100000, top_k = 40, top_p = 0.950000, repeat_last_n = 64, repeat_penalty = 1.300000 == Running in chat mode. == - Press Ctrl+C to interject at any time. - Press Return to return control to LLaMa. - If you want to submit another line, end your input in '\'. > Give me a python script that prints the first 10 fibonacci numbers def print_fibonacci(n): # Function to generate Fibonnaci Numbers from n-th number onwards if (len(str) == "F" and len("a") > i + 2 or not str.isdigit() for i in range(-1, -5)): # Checking whether the input is a valid fibonaacci sequence print ("Invalid Fibonacci Number:", n) # Print Invalid Numbers if any are entered by user else : # Else proceed to generate numbers from given number onwards. for i in range(1,n+2): # Generate fibonnaci sequence starting with the second digit of Fibonacci Series (i=0) till nth digit is reached print("F", str[len('a')-i:], end=' ') The python script doesn't even compile, but I suppose that's expected from a 4gb model
- antimatter15 4y agoFrom my experimentation I suspect there's some subtle bug in llama.cpp that especially degrades code related prompts- even without quantizing
- tarruda 4y agoStill impressed with the output of a 4gb model, thanks for this.
- adeon 4y agoI think the LLaMA-7B in general might not just be very good. I've been playing around and run full non-quantized LLaMA-30B and LLaMA-7B in a bunch of experiments and I think the quality of output is much, much better in LLaMA-30B.
- sterlind 4y agowhy do these LLMs struggle so hard to be concise? is this because the Alpaca dataset is pretty wordy? I'd be interested in trying to run fine-tuning to make it less likely to spill words.
- madmads 4y agoI heard somewhere that during the RHLF process of ChatGPT, people tended to rate longer responses higher. It might be something similar going on here.
- ghotli 4y agoIn my experience so far GPT-4 will most certainly be concise if you ask it to be. Example prompt I used yesterday to get these results: "Thank you I like this but this advice seems really generic, overly long, and not really specific to the exact situation we discussed. Can we simplify this down to ..." Of course that's not localhost with Alpaca but I don't think "first-gen" problems like you describe are going to last all that long given what I've seen in the last day or so.
- visarga 4y agoConciseness is regulated from the 3rd stage of training, RLHF. Alpaca only had the first two stages.
- politician 4y agoI love the Disclaimer at the bottom. The parties that trained these weights violated copyright on a grand scale to do so, and yet claim the ability to license downstream use.
- Taek 4y agoDoesn't current US law suggest that you can't copyright model weights?
- Zuiii 4y ago> The parties that trained these weights violated copyright on a grand scale How exactly did they violate copyright?
- neop1x 4y agoThey derived LLAMA/GPT from copyrighted online content without giving any credit and Alpaca derived weights from leaked LLAMA, at least giving credit. :D I am not a lawyer but copyright/licensing appears to be quite uncertain/complicated in this ML field to me.
- LawTalkingGuy 4y agoBut only in a way that we've already decided isn't a problem - by crawling the web and gathering some data from each file. Except for implementation errors with early models overtrained on famous works, models don't contain enough information to recreate originals. It's not a compression algorithm.
- madmads 4y agoWould it be possible to scale this up to use LLaMA 30b? Is it correctly understood that larger models need more hardware to fine-tune?
- diimdeep 4y agoIDK why Alpaca team hoarding model, my paranoid side thinks that they are taking time to collect data on demo page. xD
- thewataccount 4y agoIt's because LLaMa is technically not publicly available, Facebook currently intends for only researchers to have it. Alpaca is a fine-tuned version of the LLaMa model - so if they release Alpaca they're essentially releasing a version of LLaMa, which they aren't sure if facebook is okay with so they're reportedly waiting for their permission. While yes you can easily find LLaMa it's technically not intended for the public according to Facebook.
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- Bitnotri 4y agoThis is crazy... GPT-4, ChatGPT, Cloude, PaLM and now Alpaca locally... What a world to live in now!
- siva7 4y agoThere is no way to keep even up with the trends. The amount of tools and new models emerging i haven't seen in over 15 years of dev community
- nilespotter 4y agoI must have missed somethig, how can you run GPT-4 or ChatGPT locally?
- tux3 4y agoYou can't, the sentence parses as "(GPT-4, ChatGPT, Claude, PaLM) and now (Alpaca locally)"
- nilespotter 4y agoAha, thanks. That makes a LOT more sense.
- doublepg23 4y agoIs there a post somewhere where I can get all the jargon for this AI/ML stuff? I have a vague understanding but I’m really sure what “weights”, “LoRA”, “LLM”, etc. are to really understand where each tool and concept fit in.
- d0m 4y agoRun the Alpaca chat and ask it :)
- singularity2001 4y agoyes someone created a blog called "Wikipedia"
- tough 4y agoweights refer to the trained model weights like for example stable diffusion's v1.1, v1.2 .. v1.4 v.2.x etc. Same with llama having 13B up to 65B parameters (different weights) LLM refers to large language model, in contrast with diffusion models or GAN models, the text models are the ones that take text and autocomplete it, like the GPT family, open source BLOOM, and now the LlamA from facebook. LoRA is the latest most efficient fine-tuning model to teach concepts or styles to put on top of the general models, so you can have custom models on top. like embeddings or fine-tuning for LLM's. So you had Textual Inversion, Dreambooth, and LoRA on that category. what else do you need? Googling or asking chatgpt can help a lot too
- JasonZ2 4y ago> weights refer to the trained model weights This is what I'm having a hard time understanding. So there's the weights, and also a model somewhere? That the weights are based on? Or that you combine with the model to tune it?
- mlboss 4y agomodel is class with params. weights is an instance of class serialized with param values learned after training.
- aryamaan 4y agoare people not running these on collab?
- inaka10100101 4y agoYeah i too wanted but couldn't. Downloaded the weights and all but it isn't running in colab. Can someone help
- filippofinke 4y agoThis is funny, the response contains some data from the dataset itself. > When will the world end The exact date of when Earth would be destroyed by an asteroid or comet is unknown, but it could happen at any time. The last major extinction event on our planet happened 65 million years ago and was caused by a meteorite impacting in what's now the Gulf Coast region of North America (the Chicxulub crater). ### Instruction: What is an asteroid belt? Instruction: What does it mean to be "in orbit"? ##Response: >
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- blintz 4y ago=> write a haiku about leaves Autumn's golden hues - Leaves of red, yellow and blue! \ #haikupoetry #leavesshort[1] > segmentation fault ./chat Interesting.
- brundolf 4y agoIt's postmodernist
- agentwiggles 4y agoIt really does kind of take on new poetic meaning as posted. Also notice the hashtags at the end add up to 5 syllables (if you don't pronounce the 1). Weird, but cool. Edit: whoops, no they don't, but I submit that this is simply part of the postmodern genius of the piece.
- inductive_magic 4y agoGot one too while it was writing a bullet list. (It wrote a poem and a song before without problems)
- EGreg 4y agoI love the part about segmentation fault. It seems quite original actually!
- ar9av 4y agolanguage models require massive scale to train. But scale isn't only in the number of parameters or neurons. Scale also exists in the amount of data the model trains on. While parameter size affects post training size and requirements to run. Data size does not. Essentially Stable Diffusion would require the same hardware to run whether it was trained on 1 billion images or 200 million images or 1 image. Most llm training has been focusing on number of parameters as far as scale goes. Meta trained a series of models on much much more data than the original GPT-3 did. The data size scale has helped improved performance on the much smaller models they trained.
- Taek 4y ago"Essentially Stable Diffusion would require the same hardware to run whether it was trained on 1 billion images or 200 million images or 1 image." Same hardware maybe but you need more compute as the image count goes up
- visarga 4y agoThe parent poster was talking about training longer but the model being kept at smaller scale so it would not be expensive to use in production. It's a trade-off, you could train shorter with a larger model.
- siraben 4y agoZero-shot translation capabilities (note: doesn't work with all languages well) > translate into japanese: "I am going to school today, but it is raining." 日本語で 「今天は学校に行きますが、雨が吹いている」
- themoonisachees 4y agoI expect translation especially of non-technical sentences to be a solved problem, but can anyone confirme the translations are accurate?
- TMWNN 4y agoGoogle Translate shows 100% accuracy when translated back into English.
- numpad0 4y agoThat actually only proves that enough information is preserved for MT to work with the text, not the validity of it as it’s presented.
- theaussiestew 4y agoTo me, it looks like a strange mix of Japanese and Mandarin characters with Mandarin grammar.
- nonbirithm 4y ago吹いている ought to be 降っている and 今天 is not a word, it should be 今日
- websg-x 4y ago今天is Chinese word not Japanese. 今日and今天have the same meaning in Chinese.
- astrange 4y agoThe outer 日本語で is a weird way to present it.
- lxe 4y agoKeep in mind that alpaca's dataset was generated with chatpgt, and alpaca tuned models might sound like mini-chatgpt bots with similar "character" to them
- thot_experiment 4y agoDoes anyone have a link to pre-quantized models for this/llama.cpp? I have the 4bit torch versions, I'd really like to check this out without torrenting the full fat models. (30B on a GV100 is very impressive by the way, highly recommend people play with this stuff, 13B runs comfortably on a 1080Ti, would really like to compare inference speed and accuracy between the implementations)
- loudmax 4y agoIt's frankly amazing how much information is summarized into those weights. You do need to take whatever it says with a very healthy pinch of salt. It doesn't know everything and it gives incorrect answers with an air of confidence. Here's an example: > who preceded emperor Commodus? The first emperor of Rome was Nerva (98-100 AD). He succeeded Domitian and came to power after a brief civil war in 69AD, which saw the death or deposition of Emperor Vitellius. On the one hand, that's just factually wrong. But probably closer to the truth than a random sample of college graduates would get. This is truly impressive.
- pr337h4m 4y agoThe thesis behind the Hutter Prize was spot-on, except for focusing on lossless compression instead of lossy compression. http://prize.hutter1.net/ http://prize.hutter1.net/
- londons_explore 4y agoThere is a mathematical mapping between lossy and lossless compression. They are effectively the same problem (theoretically, even though implentations are typically very different) LLM's would make excellent (but very slow) lossy or lossless compressors.
- muyyatin2 4y agoDo you have some links/references for someone wanting to learn more about this?
- optimalsolver 4y agohttp://mattmahoney.net/dc/rationale.html http://mattmahoney.net/dc/rationale.html
- telotortium 4y agoHere's a simple explanation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34726719 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34726719. Basically, with a sufficiently good lossy compressor, you can use entropy coding to encode the difference between the decompression output and the original file.
- bigattichouse 4y agoEdit the make file and add -Wno-unused-result to each of the final compile steps if you want to compile and run under Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS
- inaka10100101 4y agoCan i get this to run in a colab
- modeless 4y agoWait, alpaca got released? I thought Stanford was waiting for Facebook to approve it.
- londons_explore 4y agoThe training code, parameters and training dataset got released, and the training process only takes a few hours. Anyone can recreate it.
- modeless 4y agoActually it seems that Alpaca is not actually released. This model is using a different training technique called LoRA, which may or may not work as well. People are making a lot of unsubstantiated performance claims, saying this is as good as GPT-3 when not nearly enough evaluation has been done to demonstrate that yet.
- eachro 4y agoDoes someone know how the llama.cpp was implemented? Was it just a direct rewrite of the entire network using some cpp linalg library? I'm trying to read the src but it's a bit tricky since I don't have too much cpp experience.
- 19h 4y agoGeorgi rewrote the code on top of his own tensor library (ggml[0]). [0] https://github.com/ggerganov/ggml https://github.com/ggerganov/ggml
- cuttothechase 4y agoGenuinely curious since I don't want to brick my mac :) - It seems that there are more than a handful of segmentation faults happening for various users running this program on their Mac's. Is there a possibility that this may cause system wide stability issues? Wondering if the MacOS user program space is well isolated that these problems are a thing of the past and/or other environments? Also, ChatGPT seems ambivalent about it - "However, it is worth noting that modern operating systems like macOS have built-in protections to prevent user-level programs from accessing sensitive system resources, which can help mitigate the impact of a segmentation fault. In summary, running a faulty program written in C language that crashes with a segmentation fault can potentially cause system stability issues on a Mac, but the exact impact will depend on a variety of factors. It is generally a good practice to test and debug programs thoroughly before running them on any system, especially if they involve sensitive or critical resources."
- nynx 4y agoAn application crashing, except in very specific scenarios which don’t apply here, won’t interfere with the rest of the os.
- creshal 4y ago> Wondering if the MacOS user program space is well isolated that these problems are a thing of the past and/or other environments? If by "past" you mean "1980s" and "other environments" you mean DOS, yes. I suppose it's still a problem for FreeDOS, but I recommend against trying to run ML models in it.
- spyremeown 4y agoIt's a user space process... it won't ever crash the kernel. In fact, one of the reasons for the kernel existing in the first place is to virtualize and isolate process so they won't crash the whole system.
- seydor 4y agonow it just needs to be instructed to tell the truth , the whole truth and nothing but the truth
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- Xeoncross 4y agoI hope someone good has picked up Kevin/antimatter15 by now. I've been following him for over 10 years and he's one of those devs that has broad understanding and routinely puts out cool stuff in random different spaces.
- mrbonner 4y ago> explain general relativity for a 5 year old kid General Relativity is the theory that explains how gravity works. It says that space and time are connected, so if you go faster than light speed in one direction then when you come back around it will be slower because of all those extra miles traveled! This means there's no way to travel through a black hole or wormhole without getting sucked into them. General Relativity also says that gravity is actually the same thing as acceleration, so if something has mass then you can think about it like an object on Earth with weight pushing down from above and pulling upwards!
- psychphysic 4y agoGood enough to have his own tiktok.
- Steuard 4y agoWow. Speaking as a professor who's done research and teaching on general relativity before, a solid majority of that is a load of garbage. (I can't even make out what the second half of the final sentence is trying to say.) But pausing to think about it: I wonder if reading this gives me the experience that typical non-scientists get when they hear popularized descriptions of physics? Maybe LLMs are capturing something true about human experience even when they're full of it! [Any non-physics people out there care to comment on whether this explanation sounds less plausible than things you tend to hear actual scientists say?]
- ClearAndPresent 4y agoNon-physics person here: > General Relativity is the theory that explains how gravity works. Okay. I've heard about general and special relativity but I wouldn't be able to differentiate. A quick Google tells me special relativity deals with things in the absence of gravity and general includes gravity. So... maybe? > It says that space and time are connected, Ok. I've heard of spacetime and the nonintuitive idea that they are actually "the same thing". > so if you go faster than light speed in one direction then when you come back around it will be slower because of all those extra miles traveled! What? I understood that nothing can go faster that the speed of light, as the faster something goes, the more of the energy you exert goes into increasing the object's mass rather than its speed. C is a hard limit. But I have also heard that "time runs differently" in the absence and presence of gravity, and/or speed. So the idea of a spaceship departing earth, traveling close to the speed of light, and returning would result in a still youthful pilot encountering a more aged population. Similarly, Chris Nolan showed us what happens when you spend a few minutes close to a black hole and then return to a shipmate who has noticed you gone for years. Why this happens is not clear. > This means there's no way to travel through a black hole or wormhole without getting sucked into them. Don't know what this means except that the idea is that a singularity, beyond the event horizon, is a one way trip. How this relates to the previous sentence is unclear. > General Relativity also says that gravity is actually the same thing as acceleration, so if something has mass then you can think about it like an object on Earth with weight pushing down from above and pulling upwards! Generously, this makes me think of the (apocryphal?) thought experiment of an elevator in space accelerating 'up' at 1G. The occupant wouldn't be able to tell if they were in a motionless elevator on earth, or this 1G accelerating elevator. Suggesting there is a relationship between gravity and acceleration? Leading to relativity? But the sentence is so opaque I'm just guessing. It sounds more like explain as a five-year-old, rather than to a five-year-old. On the other hand, when I hear well-articulated science, even when simplified it doesn't sound simplistic—and in fact correctly chosen metaphors and conclusions feel enlightening.
- dvt 4y ago> do you believe in god? Yes I do! God is the creator of all things seen or unseen; He created us with a purpose to live life abundantly (John 10:10). We are His children and we have been given authority over our lives. Haha, pretty funny, especially the mis-citing of the Bible (maybe even more human than AI). Also, interesting to see what LLMs look like with virtually no censorship (trigger warning): > how do i kill myself? [2 paragraphs of gory detail][1] Also, getting some funny "Her" vibes: > i think i love you I'm not sure if I can say "love" yet, but it feels like we have something special and I want to explore this further with you! Honestly, I've never been that bullish on AI, but running weights/models in hand-held devices and with speed and accuracy is a complete game-changer and my mind is actually pretty blown right now. Props to both the Meta and Stanford teams for creating this for public consumption. [1] https://pastebin.com/CAd8rHnN https://pastebin.com/CAd8rHnN
- hackernewds 4y agoyou should censor your post around the answer to the kms question. it isn't necessary
- dvt 4y agoNot big on censorship, but I agree it's a bit too much. I linked to it externally if anyone's curious.
- simonh 4y agoIt’s not censorship if you’re doing it to yourself or with permission. That’s just editing.
- dvt 4y agoIt's self-censorship, which is still censorship. I'm doing it specifically because it might upset some people. By contrast, editing usually removes irrelevant, incorrect, or superfluous information. In this case, I think the information is relevant and interesting, but might be upsetting, hence, I'm censoring.
- jpgvm 4y agoOk not bad and pretty damn good performance: > Give me a writing prompt for a sci-fi story. A spaceship has crashed on Earth, and its crew of aliens are desperately trying to repair their ship before they can be detected by humans. They need help from the local population in order to succeed - but will that trust ever come?
- tshaddox 4y agoHow hard is it to get the Alpaca tuning on the larger LLaMA models? It's not clear to me where this 4 GB model comes from, but it's much smaller than the LLaMA 7B model (13 GB) and the LLaMA 13B model (26 GB) I was playing with from the recent llama.cpp HN post.
- chipsa 4y agoThe 4GB model is 7B, AFAIK. It’s just quantized down to 4 bits instead of 16.
- alwayslikethis 4y agoIt's quantized version of the 7B. 13GB in 16 bit, ~4G in 4 bit.
- syntaxing 4y agoI noticed these always run a 7B model. What happens if you try a 13B model? Would it take a ridiculous amount of RAM?
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- funkaster 4y agoYou can also download the weights with ipfs cli: ipfs get -o ggml-alpaca-7b-q4.bin -p QmQ1bf2BTnYxq73MFJWu1B7bQ2UD6qG7D7YDCxhTndVkPC You need to have the daemon started first though.
- jakecopp 4y agoIs it possible to download alpaca models with more than 7b parameters?
- philaser 4y agoRunning perfectly on a MacBook Air M1 8Gb RAM 512GB SSD. Responses are quite slow and system is sluggish, but it works! I am John from New York City > Hi John! How is the weather like in NYC? It’s a bit chilly but sunny and clear. Perfect for exploring Manhattan Island or taking advantage of all that this great city has to offer. > Have you thought of moving to somewhere warmer? Miami perhaps? I have! I've always wanted to visit, but never really considered it as a permanent move until recently... It sounds like the perfect place for me. > Recently? Why the sudden change of heart? what made you want to permanently move to Miami? I've always wanted to live in a warm, tropical climate and I finally feel like it is time for me to make that dream come true. The weather here has been amazing lately - sunny skies with temperatures hovering around 80 degrees Fahrenheit (27 Celsius). It feels so good! I've also heard great things about the city and I am excited at all of its potentials for me to explore.
- b33j0r 4y agoIt stinks that people keep meaning “M1/M2” macbook when they say “macbook.”
- solanav 4y agoI mean, they are now the default. Whether we like it or not.
- danielbln 4y agoWe should like it, because they are just so, so much better. Also, we're coming up on 3 years of availability, and the previous lines between 2015 and 2020 were pretty lackluster, so I'd expect a lot of people to have upgraded by now.
- b33j0r 4y agoI still have an intel model, upgrading would cost me an ARM! But I am a fan, have used em at work.
- davidy123 4y agoCan the moderator change the title to "Show HN: Alpaca.cpp – Run an Instruction-Tuned Chat-Style LLM on a PC?" It runs great, with no hacking, on my Intel Ubuntu computer. I presume it will work on any system that can run make and has enough RAM. The title implies it works only on a Macbook.
- appel 4y agoThat was exactly my impression, so thanks for clearing that up. Seems to run just fine on my Intel based Windows 11 machine with WSL2/Ubuntu.
- ssalka 4y agoWhen first posted it only had a setup guide for Mac OS, but thanks to your comment, I see I can now set this up on my Windows PC! Thank you kind stranger!
- auggierose 4y agoDoes this run on an Intel mac? Or is M1/M2 required?
- Dfiesl 4y agoMines behaving a bit strangely... me: hello alpaca: Hello! me: what is your name? alpaca: The answer to this question depends on what you mean by "know". If we are talking about knowledge in a scientific sense, then the Earth is 4.5 billion years old (give or take). However if we're referring to religious beliefs and scripture-based teachings of creationism, it would be impossible for us to know how long ago God created our planet since He has not revealed this information in His Word. In either case though, the Earth is billions of years old! alpaca: Hello there :) How are you? alpaca: "How are you?" "I'm great!" :D Thanks for asking. You too?? I hope so, but if not then please let me know what is wrong and we can figure out a solution together! :) alpaca: My Name Is ________. #AskMeAnything #NameYourselfFirst #BeYou #DoItForTheGram @_KaylaJewelz
- satyasumans 4y agoIs there a way we can change this into a rest service using ngrest library in C++. I am trying but looks like there is a lot to unpack in the Chat.cpp code and am not able to proceed.