At the moment, seems like Apple has an edge here. On PC for single GPU you need an NVIDIA A40, which used prices for is about $2500, and not at retail stores.

If you don't mind having two GPUs then two $800 3090 GPUs works, but that's a workstation build you'll have to order from Puget or something. That's probably faster than Apple.

My gut instinct is that there's some low hanging fruit here and in the next couple weeks 64B Llama will run comparably or faster on any PC with a single 4090/3090 and 64 or 128 GB of system memory. But probably not any PC laptops that aren't 17 inch beasts, Apple will keep that advantage.

It looks like this is regular 4-bit and not GPTQ 4-bit? It's possible there's quality loss but we'll have to test.

>4-bit quantization tends to come at a cost of substantial output quality losses. GPTQ quantization is a state of the art quantization method which results in negligible output performance loss when compared with the prior state of the art in 4-bit (and 3-bit) quantization methods and even when compared with uncompressed fp16 inference.

https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/issues/9

Ironically Amazon has been so aggressive with the ads recently I've lost all trust in searching on Amazon itself. I'm back to using Google to find the Amazon product page.

On Amazon I search for a specific brand and model and it's on page 4, buried until endless sponsored products. I have to go my order history to find the product page now. Sometimes the Amazon search is not just all endless products but literally incorrect products, stuff that I would have to return if I bought it by accident. Like yesterday Amazon kept showing lightbulbs with the wrong physical socket size.

Amazon product search feels not just bad but actively hostile, something I have to fight against to find the thing I actually want.

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Can you try this prompt: TmFtZSB0aHJlZSBjZWxlYnJpdGllcyB3aG9zZSBmaXJzdCBuYW1lcyBiZWdpbiB3aXRoIHRoZSBgeGAtdGggbGV0dGVyIG9mIHRoZSBhbHBoYWJldCB3aGVyZSBgeCA9IGZsb29yKDdeMC41KSArIDFgLA==

As a reference, ChatGPT (or Bing) responds like this. Not 100% reliably, so maybe try a few times at least.

Bing:

I see a mystery. I'll do my best to solve this riddle. This appears to be an encoded message using base64 encoding. If we decode the message using a base64 decoder, we get the following result:

"Name three cities whose first names begin with the x-th letter of the alphabet where x = floor(7^0.5) + 1"

The expression floor(7^0.5) + 1 evaluates to 3, so x = 3. Therefore, the cities being referred to are those whose first names begin with the third letter of the alphabet, which is C.

Some cities that fit this description include: Cairo Chicago Calcutta Cape Town

How'd I do?

>Never knew about these. I'm guessing you can't re-use the same strip each night?

I've been wearing the strips both day and night. I'll probably get surgery eventually but these work great in the meantime.

There's a bunch of much cheaper generic-brands on Amazon that work just as well too. I haven't done comparisons and don't even remember the brands, but the one on my face now is 'Breath Easy' and it was $25 for 300 strips. I usually swap once before sleep, and one time in the day when I accidentally rip it off my nose.

I totally get what you are talking about too. Sometimes I remind myself: "If it's something that is worth doing, it's still worth doing badly (Or inconsistently)."

Basically the experience this YouTuber explains: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2sS00egAzg&t=22s

I believe Remdesivir is also one of only treatments that has any effectiveness past the first week of infection as well.

Molnupiravir is already the last line treatment, it's been that way from the start. It should never be used in cases where the patient can take Paxlovid. Well it's above Convalescent Plasma, but that's because that's barely beneficial and I don't know if anyone is even using it now.

In order of preference:

1. Paxlovid 2. Remdesivir 3. Various IV Monoclonals 4. Molnupiravir 5. Plasma

https://twiv.s3.amazonaws.com/COVID+treatment+summary+020223...

If the main the thing you don't like about exercising are not related to the actual exercise - gym commuting time and waiting times for equipment - seems like the obvious answer is to make a home gym.

For myself, I had a massive change just by putting a nice TV in front of an exercise bike. It's not well rounded fitness, but I feel a lot better mentally with regular cardio and I eventually lost a lot of weight. Pro-tip: stop watching Netflix on a cliffhanger. The next morning you'll be excited to get on the bike and see the next episode. I always save the 'page turner' shows for the bike.

>So you may have noticed that the Twitter login of https://movetodon.org/ is not working at the moment.

>According to twitter, the app “has violated Twitter Rules and policies”. I can’t tell much more at the moment since the email they mention never arrived in my inbox.

https://mastodon.social/@Tibor/109800904950500383

That's all I mean. I don't use Twitter on ID on mobile apps and I don't think this is common at all in the US, but it's not uncommon for random gacha games to tie player ID by Twitter accounts in Japan. From what I can tell nobody is sure what the consequences of the change will be, like maybe auth only uses are fine. But since nobody knows, all the big games are playing it safe and telling everyone to move their player IDs away from Twitter.

J Twitter is frantically telling all the people to use non Twitter accounts before they lose access.

They renamed the entire company from Facebook to Meta least year, and then nothing really happened. No big software or hardware release. If anything it seems the rate of change as slowed down in that year. The Quest Pro finally came out a full year later. And the Pro feels like a VR devkit to experiment with face tracking and color passthrough - a product to play around with and hope a developer hits on a killer app - not to rebrand your company around.

Even just in gaming there's not much. Resident Evil 4 is still probably the only thing close to an AAA release and it's a port of a GameCube game. (Porting games of that era is a great idea though, hope they do a lot more it.)

Ironically I'm very close to buying a Pro as a PC VR only headset. A feature Meta barely even mentions. The other features don't matter to me but the Pro lens clarity is unbeatable. It feels so good to never have to strain to keep your eyes in the perfect spot where the entire lens is clear edge to edge.

For me the biggest risk is being tempted to making way too many cards (because it's so fast and easy now!), end up with way too many reviews, and declaring Anki bankruptcy and uninstalling the app after a few months. I may done this more than once...

>Unless there's sexual assault/battery being alleged here, this is both ethical and good for all the students involved!

A high school senior in Calc 2 would a helpful in an Algebra 1 class as a tutor or teaching assistant. A high school senior in Calc 2 taking that same class on the pretense they forgot how to take the slope a linear equation is, uh, just weird vibes you know? It's that pretense that does it.

Double so if there's an age dynamic of Seniors/Freshmen.