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by adrian_b 3mo ago
These are very well formulated rules about how to use an LLM to write documentation. > Writing is thinking. Spending time on the writing process — on deciding what to emphasize and how to structure your ideas clearly — teaches you more a
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by adrian_b 3mo ago
What is interesting here is that this is an optimization study, whose goal was to determine the optimum implementation variant for matrix multiplication on a Zen 3 CPU. It is likely that a similar optimization strategy would work for a mode
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by adrian_b 3mo ago
The throughput quoted here is for a single core, and it is not reported any attempt to measure how well this scales to all cores. A modern Zen 5 should reach a throughput more than twice this value per core, with a total over 3 TFLOP/s
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by adrian_b 3mo ago
I have seen a lot of complaints about LED lamps with a short life, usually caused by defects in their integrated power supplies, typically arising from bad cooling. On the other hand, I have more than a dozen LED lamps that have been contin
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by adrian_b 3mo ago
The sodium lamps that were ubiquitous for outdoor lighting before LEDs were quite good from this point of view. Amber LEDs could provide a similar experience.
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by adrian_b 3mo ago
While what can be done with less bits per parameter may be interesting, this is not really the important number for an LLM. Much more important is the total amount of memory needed by an LLM, which can be decreased either by reducing the nu
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by adrian_b 3mo ago
Cosmic radiation is always a source of errors for any kind of DRAM. Whether it is the primary source of errors, depends on the design of the DRAM die. In a badly designed DRAM there could be many other error causes. The designers of a DRAM
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by adrian_b 3mo ago
If you do not monitor it continuously, you achieve nothing, because the memory errors happen seldom and unpredictably. Without ECC, you need a custom operating system, which will compute some error detection code, e.g. a CRC, for each read-
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by adrian_b 3mo ago
Some years ago, it was easy to find ECC modules with a so small price difference. From that time, I have a few old computers with 64 GB or 128 GB of DDR4 ECC memory. Unfortunately, after the passage to DDR5, DDR5 ECC UDIMMs have become hard
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by adrian_b 3mo ago
Both AMD and Intel publish on their site, for each CPU model, the maximum supported memory speed. If the CPU does not work at that speed, you are entitled to a replacement or a refund. For instance, AMD Ryzen™ 9 9950X3D is guaranteed to wor
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by adrian_b 3mo ago
Correct.
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There is a lot of direct evidence from increased error rates in computers on airplanes.
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Also from the recent Kimi models it seems that it was difficult to remove the censorship. But in both cases, eventually uncensored variants were published, even if it took more time than for other models.
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by adrian_b 3mo ago
Yes, but it is easy to find and download many Qwen3.6 variants from which the censorship has been removed. This is one of the advantages of being an open weights model.
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by adrian_b 3mo ago
You can find on Huggingface a huge number of Chinese open weights LLMs from which the censorship has been removed. They typically contain in their names words like -abliterated or -uncensored. For some of the recent bigger Chinese LLMs, it
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by adrian_b 3mo ago
Yes, while the Chrome/Chromium hardware decoding, or any other uses of the GPU, like WebGL, was always impeccable on Linux, with Firefox that was always an adventure, much more often not working than working (at least with an NVIDIA GP
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by adrian_b 3mo ago
I completely agree. I am very happy with my indoor LED lamps, but outdoors wherever the sodium-vapor lamps have been replaced I hate their replacements. While replacing high-pressure sodium lamps with LEDs brings a somewhat better energy ef
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by adrian_b 3mo ago
A few errors per day seems much too frequent, unless you live at a high altitude. Normal good DIMMs, at least when new, should not have errors more frequently than one error per many months. Frequent errors may appear with memories that are
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by adrian_b 3mo ago
The mechanical issues also act through increasing the sensitivity to electrical noise. The imperfect contacts are equivalent to adding series resistors, possibly in parallel with parasitic capacitors, on the link traces, allowing a greater
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by adrian_b 3mo ago
The motherboard manufacturers test their motherboards, to ensure that they typically work with overclocked memory modules. If you buy a complete gaming computer which includes overclocked memory, then hopefully the vendor has done a burn-in
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by adrian_b 3mo ago
This would be a consumer protection law like any other such law. Forcing the vendors to sell only products that do what they are advertised cannot be considered in any way as "forcing unnecessary things upon people". Any computer
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by adrian_b 3mo ago
Yes, ECC DIMMs are available only for the memory speeds guaranteed to work by the manufacturers of CPUs, like Intel and AMD, e.g. for up to DDR5-5600 in UDIMMs or DDR5-6400 in RDIMMs. The "gaming" DIMMs are available in much great
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by adrian_b 3mo ago
No. On-die ECC was added in DDR5 because the error frequency has increased too much. Its only effect was that now DDR5, as seen externally, has a reliability similar to that of the older memory generations. On-die ECChas not brought any ser
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by adrian_b 3mo ago
As TFA says, it is very likely that the hyperscalers continue to make studies about DRAM reliability in their servers, but they do not publish them, either because they believe that such data could be useful for competitors, or, more likely
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by adrian_b 3mo ago
Pretty much nothing, if you only read the weights from SSDs, i.e. if you keep any writable caches in your actual DRAM.
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by adrian_b 3mo ago
When the last day's news were about other people shot dead by ICE without a plausible reason, it is hard to take seriously discussions about human rights abuse coming from USA. It is hard to imagine a more serious abuse than being rand
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by adrian_b 3mo ago
The movements are simple, but you must start with a much more precise grip, which seems difficult to achieve for a robot.
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The uncut movie is at 2X speed. You can easily save it on your computer, and then play it at 0.5X speed, to see it like in real life. It was still satisfying.
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by adrian_b 3mo ago
> Code: Coming soon > Model: Coming soon Obviously, XiaomiRobotics-0 was their previously published model, which must have been weaker. I assume that "soon" means "a week, or two".
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While there have been already published various criticisms about this movie, for me the one that starts TFA is the one most likely to make me believe that I would not like this adaptation: > ODYSSEUS IS NOT ODYSSEUS > They take out al

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