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by jart 3y ago
It's really sad how the C standards committee is pushing this anti-c89 thing because it breaks one of the most important use cases for C which is writing programs that work under both GCC and JavaScript. See https://justine.
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by jart 3y ago
all I know is that when I run llama.cpp a lot of the matrices that get multiplied have their shapes defined by how many tokens are in my prompt. https://justine.lol/tmp/shapes.png Notice how the B matrix is always skin
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by jart 3y ago
If I understand correctly, you're using specialized hardware to improve token generation speed, which is very latency bound on the speed of computation. However generating tokens only requires multiplying 1-dimensional matrices usually
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by jart 3y ago
Ruh roh. Google is finally fixing the search ranking problem, good and hard . Be careful what you wish for.
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by jart 3y ago
Zen4 AVX512 must be really good then.
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by jart 3y ago
llamafile has amd gpu support. on windows, it only depends on the graphics driver, thanks to our tinyBLAS library. https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile/releases/tag/0.6.2 By default it opens a brows
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by jart 3y ago
It's not childish it's manipulative and it's the sort of rhetoric that only manipulates people at least a standard deviation to the left of the bell curve here. But even by that standard, gosh this piece lays it down so thick
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by jart 3y ago
You should be supporting and financing open source that elevates knowledge. Knowledge is the resource that open source distributes which folks fight to control. It's like the fruit you'd grow on a farm. You could argue about wheth
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by jart 3y ago
Those are some pretty twisted reasons to support open source. First of all, you are not a "user" if you use open source. You are an owner . Open source gives you the freedom to control the development process of the software. I
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by jart 3y ago
I've been developing websites since the 90's and if there's one thing I've learned it's that all these vogue frameworks are just bling, sort of like Yahoo's home page, and bling while nice is not an effective s
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by jart 3y ago
He was probably their top guy too. Sort of like how Lucifer was the top angel in Heaven before his drug problems brought about his fall from Apple and since then he's been a true light bringer working tirelessly to give us awesome soft
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by jart 3y ago
Haha you've never been to San Francisco. The tap water there is this nasty opaque sludge. It comes out of the faucet looking like bathwater after the bath has been used. Knowing the way things go there, they probably turned their water
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by jart 3y ago
It should if everything is static and you're only targeting Linux.
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by jart 3y ago
If you want an optimized Musl, try Cosmopolitan in `make toolchain MODE=tinylinux`, since it's based on Musl, and its string routines go 2x faster.
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by jart 3y ago
> Notice how this hockey stick growth started shortly after February 2022, i.e. is a direct result of Western sanctions on Russia: https://x.com/brad_setser/status/1670842577862508556?s=46 What? It starts after
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by jart 3y ago
Of course it's going to happen. Read The New Digital Age by Eric Schmidt. He talks a lot about how all the information Google records about you is permanent, can never be deleted, and any generation of lawmakers can decide to do whatev
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by jart 3y ago
Here are the facts https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/7440301 Yes they still record your activity under some faceless uuid when you browse incognito. No they don't tie it with your gmail unless you logi
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by jart 3y ago
That would be like a bird saying humans aren't a Natural General Intelligence because they can't fly. How much vision and audio is required to be intelligent? There's a lot of electromagnetic radiation we can't see and a
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by jart 3y ago
> With all due respect to LeCun, not him nor anyone else in the field predicted the new emergent capabilities brought within the last few years. Turing predicted it would happen around the year 2000 and take ~1gb of ram. > I believe t
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by jart 3y ago
Amazon had one of their buildings in California shut down a few months ago by the fire department when a generator started smoking. It was probably due to a bad fuse they bought off Amazon. https://signalscv.com/2023/07
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by jart 3y ago
See also https://olduse.net/ for a 42 year delay on USENET. All I had to do was put this in my ~/.emacs file: (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "olduse.net" (nntp-port-number 11942))) Then I typed
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by jart 3y ago
Life was not good for people who ate traditional diets. https://jacobin.com/2015/05/slow-food-artisanal-natural-pres...
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by jart 3y ago
echelon is proposing head or body transplants. It's not sci-fi because doctors have been able to do it with limited success since 1970. Yes it will cure cancer, assuming the tumors haven't spread to your brain. No, cancer is not H
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by jart 3y ago
Documentaries are usually painfully open about their agendas, like changing policies in Madagascar to save the lemurs, save the smokers, save the obese, etc. But no documentary until "The Billion Dollar Code" ever made me feel gen
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by jart 3y ago
Don't doubt yourself Atreyu. Most news sites aren't aligned with the best interests the tech industry. Tech is a whipping boy that eats its own tail. I must admit I blinked for a few seconds after reading your comment since it&#x2
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by jart 3y ago
It's worth mentioning that tech didn't just invent better products. Tech also figured out a way to give them away for free. Tech also figured out how to ensure people of all classes and backgrounds got equal access to superior pro
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by jart 3y ago
Don't believe everything you watch on television or read on Wikipedia. Terravision was created by the Stanford Research Institute. Google used to be a Stanford research project. The group called ART+COM that Netflix portrays as a bunch
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by jart 3y ago
> one has a perfect right to be angry at them, and generalize that as "being angry at Google". People who climb their way to Director usually don't tilt at windmills and shake their fists at clouds.
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by jart 3y ago
I'm sure the environment is fine, it's just a question of economics. The comp for mere software engineers these days is more than the commander in chief gets paid. Usually what organizations like USDS try to do to attract coders i
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by jart 3y ago
If a nation needs to defend itself then it's already lost, because that means it was weak enough that someone else thought they could win by attacking it. Sun Tzu said a supreme nation would subjugate its enemies without needing to fig

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