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by dragonwriter 2mo ago
> The BSD license permits making proprietary forks. The GPL does not. Those are examples of the distinction between "open source" and "free software." The FSF and OSI both disagree with you. The old BSD 4-clause is a
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by dragonwriter 2mo ago
So the solution to the chip supply problem is “pretend there is no chip supply problem and everyone gets the chips they need, but for some reason does some assembly task at home”? If we could just do the first part and get reality to confor
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by dragonwriter 2mo ago
Isn’t QAT a training approach (roughly, simulating quantization in the forward pass during training so that quantization of the level targeted in training has close-to-optimal behavior), not a quantization algorithm? Hence, the name?
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by dragonwriter 2mo ago
The policy is simple, the politics of adopting it may be difficult. Different issues. But the bigger point isn't the simplicity or not of the policy or its adoption, but that other options will not work without it, and will not be nece
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by dragonwriter 2mo ago
I mean, sure, its censorship to the extent that you can apply the term to an institution that is also the creator of the censored work, and that's exactly the point and the whole meaning of “alignment”.
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by dragonwriter 2mo ago
They were. Like, right before the big public-use-of-AI wave. Those left are the ones not seen as troublesome then (or those who have entered the field under them.)
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by dragonwriter 2mo ago
> The people in AI ethics who spent years thinking their job was marketing or publishing thinkpiece papers may be having to adapt quickly or get out of the field. Funny thing, right around the beginning of the big AI takeoff, all the AI
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by dragonwriter 2mo ago
No, we simply need to (the state level is the most likely place to do this) strip localities of the power to limit housing density by zoning restrictions and discretionary de ial or delay of permitting. That’s the barrier to adequate housi
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by dragonwriter 2mo ago
> This is just temporary though, right? Well, everything—even human life on Earth—is just temporary, but RAM supply lagging centralized-AI-driven demand increases continuing to squeeze the consumer market may not be a short term phenomen
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by dragonwriter 2mo ago
> If you think the US is doing more harm than good, you are allowed to move and surrender your citizenship. Well, no, you aren't necessarily without paying a special additional tax to the US government, so it doesn't really sol
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by dragonwriter 2mo ago
Neither of those are a competitor replacing another, they are a same-vendor replacement. This is easier, because the company whose established product you are trying to displace is cooperating (because its you!) not actively resisting.
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by dragonwriter 2mo ago
The only way in which BlueSky is preferentially catering to the left is by existing as an alternative to X and specifically providing tighter control of what is in your feed; and this is only “catering to the Left” because of the groups to
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by dragonwriter 2mo ago
> I think we need a chain of custody system for content, but that would require browsers, software, websites, operating systems, phones, camera manufacturers, etc to all get on board. It would also require the individual humans you are t
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by dragonwriter 2mo ago
> But I really would have liked for them to state explicitly that entirely false positives where a piece is fully human-written may still be marked as generated, because too many institutions with the power to ruin someone's life ov
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by dragonwriter 2mo ago
Well, not by free and fair election, but unless the perfect surveillance state also solves the problem of mortality, there will probably be a successor. Possibly at a time facilitated by the security apparatus that puts the teeth in the sur
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by dragonwriter 2mo ago
Avoiding use of “girl” when you aren’t asking for a feminine child is good advice for any model that isn't specifically trained on a specialized prompting vocabulary (e.g., danbooru tags) where “girl” has a different meaning. But I h
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by dragonwriter 2mo ago
While you will find plenty of people willing to scam you to pay for “adult entertainment workflows”, the built in templates in ComfyUI for the model—perhaps dropping in a Lora Loader node for the a Turbo lora for speed—handle running the mo
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by dragonwriter 2mo ago
Other than for pure t2v usage you probably don't need a LoRA for much, I have seen evidence that it is knowledgeable enough that it can handle a fair amount of anatomy looking and behaving reasonably with just relevant cues in control
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by dragonwriter 2mo ago
My understanding is that that tends to be more critical with LLMs than image/video gen models, which are relatively more compute vs. memory transfer intensive than LLMs
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by dragonwriter 2mo ago
GGUF is unsupported by ComfyUI’s memory management system that enables running models much larger than fit in VRAM with tolerable efficiency via weight streaming, but for unified memory systems that system is less relevant (unless using mod
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by dragonwriter 2mo ago
No major language model I am aware of meets the polar extreme that I describe as unmistakably open source, because even those with transparent training data (like IBM Granite) generally do kot use exclusively training data that either the
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by dragonwriter 2mo ago
If the weight, training and inference code, and training data are all released under of Open Source (OSI definition) license, the it is unmistakably “open source”. As you drift from that it becomes less clearly so, and when you get to no tr
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by dragonwriter 2mo ago
> Wasn't LLaMA or Llama 2 the first ever open weight LLM through a leak No. GPT-2, I think, was the first, four(ish) years before Llama, and there were a bunch in between GPT-2 and the Llama leak and later open release. The Llama le
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by dragonwriter 2mo ago
A Georgist LVT is based on the value of the bare land, which is constrained by permitted uses. Adopting it without first removing zoning restrictions would increase the incentive for homeowners to defend the existing zoning rules, since t
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by dragonwriter 2mo ago
How would an LVT do that when the barrier to dense housing is zoning restrictions? Changing the tax structure doesn't remove that restriction.
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by dragonwriter 2mo ago
A land value tax without changes in non-tax land use regulations would not fix, and a land value tax would not be necessary after removing the non-tax land use restrictions which this responds to.
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by dragonwriter 2mo ago
> US laboratories are currently unable to contain their agents while doing security testing Alternative interpretation: US labs are using the supposed inability to control their frontier models as simultaneously marketing for the capabil
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by dragonwriter 2mo ago
Even if by “open models” you specifically restrict that to LLM or LLM-backbone models with different or additional modalities to text released by major American firms then there are still a lot of American open models being released. Ma
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by dragonwriter 2mo ago
> The data centers in Aurora are surrounded with prairie green space; everything else, including the nicest office buildings, are a sea of eyesore asphalt parking lots. The concern about datacenters isn’t about visual aesthetics or traff
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by dragonwriter 2mo ago
Which makes it a clear price win if you already subscribe to Pro for some other reason, otherwise the price crossover where ChatGPT Pro unlimited beats the per-image pricing cited here is 80+ images/day.

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