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New comment by m3affan in "Forget ChatGPT: why researchers now run small AIs on their laptops"

m3affan — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 22:15:41 +0000

But how good are these models compared to gpt4o? My last experience with llama2-8b was not great at all. Are there really that good models that would fit on an average consumer hardware (mine has already 32GB ram and 16GB vram)?

New comment by m3affan in "Gzip and KNN Outperforms Transformers on Text Classification"

m3affan — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 06:48:52 +0000

ChatGPT zealots are still hating on that piece.

New comment by m3affan in "Faster neural networks straight from JPEG (2018)"

m3affan — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 18:21:40 +0000

Transformers are the taking the cake in the Deep Learning community

New comment by m3affan in "InternLM – new open source 7B LLM"

m3affan — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 11:05:20 +0000

Interesting attack vector. Malicious model codes.

New comment by m3affan in "A curated list of uBlock origin filters"

m3affan — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 15:45:08 +0000

Awesome work. It's sad to see the internet being ridden by cancerous ads more and more.

New comment by m3affan in "How to pass a first-round interview"

m3affan — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 15:42:11 +0000

But that's the reality. Doing good on an interview does not guarantee the ability to do the job

New comment by m3affan in "Illegal Life Pro Tip: Want to ruin your competitor's business?"

m3affan — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 06:40:04 +0000

"But, but, it's illegal". But nonetheless it was a illuminating debate.

New comment by m3affan in "Stanford A.I. Courses"

m3affan — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 06:36:50 +0000

Karpathy is great researcher in the field, but that doesn't always translate into good explanation skills automatically.

New comment by m3affan in "Hunting for Nginx alias traversals in the wild"

m3affan — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 04:10:42 +0000

What are the alternarives though?

New comment by m3affan in "Entropy: A little understood concept in physics [video]"

m3affan — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 13:02:24 +0000

I wonder how many concepts that are so complicated for our brain to formalize or even process.

New comment by m3affan in "How to 1.5x your salary through negotiation"

m3affan — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 07:29:35 +0000

This sounds very US centric. In the EU things work differently.

New comment by m3affan in "Teach yourself Computer Science functionally"

m3affan — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 06:41:33 +0000

Thanks for the references!

New comment by m3affan in "Xerox scanners randomly alter numbers in scanned documents (2013)"

m3affan — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 12:53:13 +0000

This was an amazing talk. He did a great job keeping it entertaining.

New comment by m3affan in "Llama.cpp: Full CUDA GPU Acceleration"

m3affan — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 12:14:26 +0000

This is an impresdive use case

New comment by m3affan in "Make your own VPN with Fly.io, tailscale and GitHub"

m3affan — Thu, 25 May 2023 11:30:55 +0000

But, but ... Nordvpn

New comment by m3affan in "Make your own VPN with Fly.io, tailscale and GitHub"

m3affan — Thu, 25 May 2023 11:28:33 +0000

But, but ... nordvpn?

New comment by m3affan in "QLoRA: Efficient Finetuning of Quantized LLMs"

m3affan — Thu, 25 May 2023 11:27:08 +0000

Thanks for pointing this out. Such projects deserve visibility.

New comment by m3affan in "Sam Altman Says OpenAI Will Leave the EU If There's Any Real AI Regulation"

m3affan — Thu, 25 May 2023 11:24:48 +0000

Exactly this. I am pretty sure he's bluffing, and even if not, by the time they decide to pull their operations, many alternative would be on the market (there are already many).

New comment by m3affan in "YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers"

m3affan — Thu, 11 May 2023 21:07:03 +0000

The hero we need

New comment by m3affan in "Faster CPython at PyCon, part one"

m3affan — Thu, 11 May 2023 20:47:07 +0000

This guy cythons