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by adrian_b 3mo ago
They cannot be copies, because all of them have different structures, which are explained in published research papers, while nobody knows the structure of the American SOTA models. It is also impossible for China to have accessed the hundr
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by adrian_b 3mo ago
The Chinese AI models are certainly not copied from any US sources. All of them have quite different structures, and the reasons for choosing those structures have been clearly explained in published research papers. The structures of the U
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by adrian_b 3mo ago
It is not clear that "model self-hosting in Fortune companies is DOA". Among the chiefs of the Fortune companies there is no complete unity, as some think that they should receive some of the AI profits, instead of OpenAI and Anth
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by adrian_b 3mo ago
It is much more difficult to embed a "sleeper agent" in an LLM than it is to do the same in any closed-source program. Any proprietary program, e.g. from Microsoft, is much more likely to contain hard-to-detect "sleeper agent
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It actually is difficult to find an exercise for developing fine motor control that is as complete and as cheap as practicing handwriting. All other exercises would need more expensive tools and after inventing a sufficient number of differ
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by adrian_b 3mo ago
As another poster already said, building new F-16s would be a waste of resources, but using the old existing F-16s by automating them is likely to be a better use of the existing resources, instead of scraping them. This also allows to gain
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by adrian_b 3mo ago
A liquid ink rollerball pen, for example the classic "uni-ball Vision Elite" is even closer to the effortless writing experience of a fountain pen (i.e. with a minimum pressure on the paper), than any gel pen (but gel pens are sti
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by adrian_b 3mo ago
Having CommonLisp as the extension language would indeed be a great improvement over Elisp. However, I am suspicious about the dependency of Lem on Webkit, which for me is rather associated with inefficiency and low performance than with th
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by adrian_b 3mo ago
Sadly, this has become very true during the last decades. However, a half of century ago there were a non-negligible number of large companies for which there existed more important priorities than the financials, e.g. reputation and custom
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"This is fair use" is just their public defense, but obviously they have never given a thought about this when hoarding data, as shown by the modest 1.5B fine of Anthropic, which they can now write off as a normal business cost. I
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by adrian_b 3mo ago
The Intel server CPUs Skylake Server, Cascade Lake and Cooper Lake, which had bad frequency/voltage management are now ancient history and very few of them have been used as workstation CPUs by individual users. AMD Zen 4 and Zen 5, an
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by adrian_b 3mo ago
Actually yes, the malloc/free API (inherited from the ALLOCATE and FREE statements of PL/I) is too simple. The metadata that malloc always attaches to the allocated memory would normally be useful for the user (i.e. having access
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by adrian_b 3mo ago
This is explained in TFA, where it is mentioned that you can replace inline metadata with a pointer to metadata (or an index), which may be unaligned, if necessary. However, the pointer to metadata is not really necessary. The associated me
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by adrian_b 3mo ago
In your previous posting you said that for more than 2 Sparks you also need to buy a very expensive switch. That is not really true. Once you have 2 fast Ethernet ports, like DGX Spark has, you can interconnect any number of systems without
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by adrian_b 3mo ago
Yes, due to the huge increase in memory price and also exploiting the demand for local LLM inference, the price for a mini-PC with Strix Halo has become more than double in comparison with the first months after launch (when you could pay s
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by adrian_b 3mo ago
While this incident has been discussed in a lot of places during the last few days, I believe that this is the best summary and analysis of what happened.
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Any CPU generates more heat when it does more work, e.g. when more cores are active, or when using vector instructions. Using the AVX-512 operations is much more efficient, i.e. the same amount of work can be done by consuming less energy.
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by adrian_b 3mo ago
Yes, they have used GLM 5.2, which promptly did whatever they asked it to do, while their first attempts to use their enterprise access to a "SOTA" model failed due to refusals to investigate anything that is security related.
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by adrian_b 3mo ago
Intel Panther Lake is a serious improvement over the previous Intel CPUs, both in energy efficiency and in GPU performance. The good energy efficiency is a good sign for Intel's 18A CMOS fabrication process. Nevertheless, it is worryin
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Indeed, there are very few absolute numbers that could provide useful information for comparison with alternatives. Moreover, the excessive frequency of phrases like "landing directly on the metric that matters most" has become an
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by adrian_b 3mo ago
I have also seen extremely rare cases of Linux freezes exactly like you described, and I have wondered if there can be any relationship between them and the NVIDIA drivers, mainly because they are the only closed-source drivers that I use.
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Even in the recent past, all the countries dominated by the Soviet Union have gone for a half of century without problems, while a supermajority of their citizens actively hated their government, and by "hate" I mean like really w
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by adrian_b 3mo ago
I see no problem with every private citizen having a video camera that records everything around their home or business, and when a crime happens the police can solicit the recordings. Also it is fine if such a private surveillance system a
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I doubt that there was a "german" word in Old English. There are 2 "german" words. One refers to what were previously called Teutonic people, from the name they used themselves, which was later changed to the name used i
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by adrian_b 3mo ago
The home computers like those from Commodore, Apple, Atari etc. lacked protection against memory errors, but the computers intended for business, like the IBM PC and all its clones had memory error detection capability in the form of parity
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by adrian_b 3mo ago
A steel case has too little effect on cosmic radiation, but it is good to shield electrical noise. The computers in plastic cases can sometimes be affected by appliances with electrical motors that are used nearby them. The cosmic radiation
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by adrian_b 3mo ago
No, that is not true. That link says that only the Vulkan video encode functions have been disabled, due to bugs. Vulkan video decoding remains enabled also in the Intel GPU drivers.
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by adrian_b 3mo ago
It is important in the sense that many Linux programs did not bother to support both the Intel video API and the NVIDIA video API, so they work only with the Intel video API, which is also supported by AMD GPUs. Programs that are converted
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by adrian_b 3mo ago
If the GPU is new enough to include a hardware AV1 decoder. For NVIDIA, that means Ampere or newer (RTX 30xx or newer). Turing or older (RTX 20xx or older) do not have support for AV1. Vulkan has the advantage of providing a unified interfa
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by adrian_b 3mo ago
I have heard frequently complaints about NVIDIA drivers on Linux, but I always wonder about which are the exact circumstances in which such problems can appear. I have used NVIDIA GPUs on Linux continuously since 2005, i.e. for 21 years. Du

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