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by pulse7 1y ago
"Then java did it too." Java had green threads in 1.0. They were removed. Then Java added virtual threads.
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by pulse7 1y ago
The difference between LLM and a very junior programmer: junior programmer will learn and change, LLM won't change! The more instructions you put in the prompt, the more will be forgotten and the more it will bounce back to the "g
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Nvidia-backed startup invents Ethernet memory pool – up to 18TB of DDR5(tomshardware.com)
3 points by pulse7 1y ago|0 comments
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by pulse7 1y ago
Because there are customers willing to pay $200/month and more...
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by pulse7 1y ago
Best to switch to Smalltalk integers which are unlimited...
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by pulse7 1y ago
Somehow Boeing is happening to the whole IT industry at the moment where AI is forced upon programmers instead of "properly developing software" ...
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by pulse7 1y ago
"What We Found We determined that the probable cause of this accident was the in-flight separation of the left MED plug due to Boeing’s failure to provide adequate training, guidance, and oversight necessary to ensure that manufacturin
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by pulse7 1y ago
Just by watching your clock for 1 minute I learned Cuneiform numbers! Thank you! :)
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by pulse7 2y ago
... and one with 32GB/64GB/128GB ECC RAM ... and one with USB4/USB4 2.0 ... and one with 2.5/5/10Gbps Ethernet ... and one with M.2 SSD port ... and one with 2nm litography
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by pulse7 2y ago
WSL1 was "Linux API on top of Windows", WSL2 is "Linux VM on top of Windows"
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by pulse7 2y ago
Just hire a bunch of AI experts which earn the NHL-star-level amounts...
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by pulse7 2y ago
Or wait for the IQ2_M quantization of 70b which you can run very fast on 24GB VRAM with context size of 4096...
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by pulse7 2y ago
You also need VRAM for context: the larger the context, the more RAM you need.
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by pulse7 2y ago
Hacker News doesn't have a RemindMeBot... ;-)
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by pulse7 2y ago
Why buy Intel N100 with Intel Management Engine (which is disabled on US Government computers)? I rather buy RaspberryPi where I don't need to disable Intel ME by myself...
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by pulse7 2y ago
As a parent I literally support bans of social media for under-16s AND I also do my job as a parent: my kids get a smart phone at 16, until then they have a feature/dummy phone (which they hide from peers because they are ashamed to sh
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by pulse7 2y ago
Please post your configuration... Thank you!
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by pulse7 2y ago
On the other hand: Smalltalk had many many more methods on Object than Java have today...
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by pulse7 2y ago
They need to increase the revenue (=> new sales) and decrease the costs (=> Uber delivery) so that shareholders are happy...
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by pulse7 2y ago
Options: A) 128GB RAM with the fastest Intel/AMD CPU, no GPU: you can run big/good models, but very slow (about 0.5 to 3 tokens/second) B) Fastest Mac with 128GB/192GB: you can run big/good models with moderate spee
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by pulse7 2y ago
If I understood correctly they just added image preprocessing and then they feed that into llama.cpp...
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by pulse7 2y ago
"Reboot tut immer gut!" (Reboot is always good!)
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by pulse7 2y ago
Make a single-page app instead of the website.
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by pulse7 2y ago
New is not necessarily better...
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by pulse7 2y ago
He tested "EVERY graphics card on a Raspberry Pi" (Apr 13, 2023): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9dItRUjQ0k
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by pulse7 2y ago
Which ARM-based Linux Desktop are you using? :)
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by pulse7 2y ago
When computers become faster, WASM will still be twice the speed of JavaScript, because untyped languages limit the optimizations.
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by pulse7 2y ago
"worse is better" is "the right thing"
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by pulse7 2y ago
If "no magic is needed", then why don't you - or someone else - name, say, 5 more such groups/chunks with their exact characteristics? It seems that it is not that easy to find them... and yet someone found such a group
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by pulse7 2y ago
Making a tax deal to pay only 1% or 0.005% for a specific company is an illegal aid - regardless of the EU member country ...

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