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declaredapple··on ChatGPT went berserk
Almost certainly not.

It's absolutely just sampling with temperature or top_p/k, etc. Beam searches would be very expensive, I can't see them doing that for chatgpt which appears to be their "consumer product" and often has lower quality results compared to the api.

The old legacy had a "best_of" option but that doesn't exist in the new api.

declaredapple··on Gemma: New Open Models
You can but it'll never be the same as the base model.

That said it appears they also released the base checkpoints that aren't fine-tuned for alignment

declaredapple··on Gemma: New Open Models
Congrats on the launch and thanks for the contribution! This looks like it's on-par or better compared to mistral 7B 0.1 or is that 0.2?

Are there plans for MoE or 70B models?

declaredapple··on A800 40GB Active Graphics Card
> "don't sell F22s to anyone else"

What they actually said (abbreviated) was anything with more then

> "600 Gbyte/s [memory transfer speed]" or 4800TOPS

Page 103 https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2022-21658.pdf

They set very specific performance restrictions, not a general "don't sell fast stuff plz"

declaredapple··on A800 40GB Active Graphics Card
It's just frustrating for me to see people write rules, and then say "hey not like that!". It wastes everyone's time, the point of regulations is to draw the line and have no ambiguous meaning.

It's like putting up a speed limit sign that says "55mph" and then ticketing them for speeding going "53mph".

If they want people to go 35mph, they should just made the limit 35mph!

declaredapple··on A800 40GB Active Graphics Card
I don't get it, the rules were "Do not cross this line", nvidia, being a business that makes products that comply with regulations, made a product that stopped just short of the line.

It's like putting up a speed limit sign that says "55mph" and then ticketing them for speeding going "53mph"

declaredapple··on A800 40GB Active Graphics Card
> so presumably the intent was to stop export of GA100/GH100 silicon altogether

They should have just written this in the regulations.

Instead they're making nvidia waste resources making a product that complied with regulations.

declaredapple··on Kagi Changelog 2/13: Faster and more accurate instant answers and Wikipedia page
I actually have had this happen and it's infuriating.

I've had queries of copy+pasted errors with zero results, but playing around with it a bit just to find a github result that was only like two words off.

> it’s terrible but far better than getting 100’s of irrelevant results because

Surely the similarity to the one on github would still have it ranked on the first page?

declaredapple··on Kagi Changelog 2/13: Faster and more accurate instant answers and Wikipedia page
> No the hell not. It should do what I tell it to.

That's what I said. "then evaluate the query anyway." I should have added "original" to that statement

> If that is nothing, that's what it should show. It should not show me entirely unrelated results, ads, or what it "think" I meant. Not its job.

I'm saying I don't want similarity cutoffs. Most FTS methods involve a similarity score, I'm saying I don't want only results with > 0.1 similarity. I want all of them that were returned.

I'm NOT saying it should somehow inject results that didn't originate from the original FTS query.

declaredapple··on Kagi Changelog 2/13: Faster and more accurate instant answers and Wikipedia page
I don't understand what you mean.

I'm saying if you have a query that returns a similarity score, I don't want only results with > 0.1. I want all the results returned

declaredapple··on Kagi Changelog 2/13: Faster and more accurate instant answers and Wikipedia page
What are you talking about? Have you ever worked with full text search?

I'm saying I don't like high cutoffs of similarity scores. I have no idea what you're talking about.

Very very few queries should have _literally zero results_. Surely you have at least a few words in common with something

declaredapple··on Kagi Changelog 2/13: Faster and more accurate instant answers and Wikipedia page
> if you query is bad or too specific.

Then it should suggest a better one and then evaluate the query anyway.

> This is what any decent search engine should do -- return nothing

WHY?! That's the opposite of it's job!

I have an account with a username that is spelled very similarly to a real word. Google will suggest searching for the real word instead. If you do that though, you'll never find the username!

I'm tired of people saying the computer should not do what I tell it to. It's like children who won't even attempt a multiple choice test because they aren't 100% sure

declaredapple··on Our next-generation model: Gemini 1.5
> I assumed MOE was where each expert analyzed the problem in a different way

Uh sorta but not like parent described at all. You have multiple "experts" and you have a routing layer(s) that decide which expert to send it to. Usually every token is sent to at least 2. You can't just send half the tokens to one expert and half to another.

Also the "experts" are not "domain experts" - there is not a "programming expert" and an "essay expert".

declaredapple··on Feds want to ban the Flipper Zero – Experts say it's a scapegoat
They have an esp expansion board but the default flipper is an stm microcontroller + CC1101, I was actually surprised it didn't use an esp32.
declaredapple··on Sora: Creating video from text
I disagree mainly because google, aws, apple, etc. All have similar, or even more access to GPU compute and funding for it, and in google's case also has been one of the main research contributers, yet they still struggle to touch GPT4's performance in practice.

If it was as simple as dropping 10's millions on compute they could do that, yet google's bard/gemini have been a year behind GPT4's performance.

That said I do agree that it's a moat for the startups like stability/mistral, etc. They also have access to $/compute, albiet a lot less. And you can see this in their research, as they've been focused on methods to lower the training/inference costs.

*I'm measuring performance by the chatbot arena's elo system and r/locallama

declaredapple··on Sora: Creating video from text
> What we're trying to find is a business that, for one reason or another -- it can be because it's the low-cost producer in some area, it can be because it has a natural franchise because of surface capabilities, it could be because of its position in the consumers' mind, it can be because of a technological advantage, or any kind of reason at all, that it has this moat around it.

He didn't seem to have specific definition at all really.

I think most people attribute it to a "secret sauce technology" in the case of OpenAI, I'm not sure if "finances to lease a huge cluster of GPUs" makes sense here because the main competitors (Google, AWS, Apple, etc) also have access to insane compute as well yet have struggled to get close to GPT4's performance in practice.

That said I do agree that it's a moat for the startups like stability/mistral, etc. They also have access to $/compute, albiet a lot less. And you can see this in their research, as they've been focused on methods to lower the training/inference costs.

declaredapple··on Feds want to ban the Flipper Zero – Experts say it's a scapegoat
I'm curious what the impact of this would be on non-flippers.

The flipper is just some common off-the-shelf radios and microcontroller, albiet in a nice package. That's it. Like common radios found in your everyday stuff, like say a garage door remote.

Would regulations affect every product using these? I assume they'd have to in order to have any teeth? Would this impact a developer who wants to buy an cc1101 evaluation board for development?

declaredapple··on Our next-generation model: Gemini 1.5
> One thing you could do with MoE is giving each expert different subsets of the input tokens.

Don't MoE's route tokens to experts after the attention step? That wouldn't solve the n^2 issue the attention step has.

If you split the tokens before the attention step, that would mean those tokens would have no relationship to each other - it would be like inferring two prompts in parallel. That would defeat the point of a 10M context

declaredapple··on Nanoplastics in water – surprisingly large amounts discovered and its not good
> ZeroWater makes a carafe that reduces total dissolved solids to 0 ppm, including PFAs and microplastics, or so they claim.

ZeroWater uses an ion exchange filter - It's my understanding that many (most?) micro plastics are not dissolved and/or are not charged meaning it won't effectively filter most microplastics.

Similarly they aren't designed to filter bacteria.

> The current system is meant to be used with municipally treated, potable water as the current filter will not remove microbiological contaminants.

https://zerowater.com/pages/frequently-asked-questions

declaredapple··on Nanoplastics in water – surprisingly large amounts discovered and its not good
Keep in mind that a lot of the microplastics come from "macroplastics" (?) that have broken down.

There's few things that destroy them further.

That and many of the effects may not occur until a sufficient amount of microplastics have accumulated which we may only now be approaching.

The biggest issue is that they break down so poorly. Even if we stopped all plastic production today, the total amount of microplastics will only accumulate

declaredapple··on Reverse-engineering an encrypted IoT protocol
is binwalk still used these days?
declaredapple··on Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork
> Nothing suspicious about that at ALL no sir nothing to see here.

Yes, very suspicious that he didn't want to issue CVEs for

checks notes

Two DOS attacks that only apply to users that explicitly enabled experimental QUIC support (by default it's disabled)

declaredapple··on X Corp. vs. Media Matters Memorandum of Law in Support of Motion to Dismiss [pdf]
> These include, at a bare minimum, adequate contacts with the forum for the defendant to reasonably anticipate being haled into court there. This case does not come close to clearing that threshold. Neither party is based in Texas and the allegations at issue in this case have zero connection to Texas. X has thus failed to provide any convincing justification for litigating this dispute in Texas. On this basis alone, this Court should dismiss the complaint under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(3)
declaredapple··on Cloudflare defeats patent troll Sable at trial
> but don’t have the capital to manufacture it myself

You're looking at 10k to file it, and then all it gives you is the ability to sue. If [insert company] violates it, you could easily be looking at 100k+ for litigation that you may or may not win.

> So if I invent something

My problem is you don't need to "invent" anything. You just need to be the first to file the paperwork (and have the cash to do so).

"[sensor] on [smartwatch, glasses, goggles, belts, chairs, whatever]" and now nobody else can do it for 20 years. Even if it's blatantly obvious that an chair can sense if you're sitting in it to turn on the tv automatically.

declaredapple··on Cloudflare defeats patent troll Sable at trial
I'm on board with this. It shouldn't exist for software, I'd be happy to see it go for hardware too.

I'd be more on-board with the idea if non-software patents only had say a 5 year lifespan

declaredapple··on Reddit beats film industry again, won't have to reveal pirates' IP addresses
For security purposes you should of course assume they do indefinitely. In practice I'm pretty sure every US ISP does, at least on the timescale of 30d+. I don't think the US officially has a retention requirement but I think Canada does.

Comcast is 180 days - https://www.xfinity.com/-/media/4231839e374c4f618b2d34004d50...

I could not find a specific number for Frontier - https://content.frontier.com/-/jssmedia/documents/corporate/...

declaredapple··on Reddit beats film industry again, won't have to reveal pirates' IP addresses
> At that point it becomes "building value for the shareholder" and "minimizing risk for the shareholder".

Generally people refer to this as Enshittification

> if you ruin the experience for the user then you've ruined your own product, thus defeating the shareholder.

Enshittification is literally the opposite of this.

declaredapple··on Reddit beats film industry again, won't have to reveal pirates' IP addresses
> And most IPV4 addresses are vague and only give a coarse location of where you are

That's not true, you can request/compel Frontier to tell you what specific customer that IP was assigned to at a given time.

> and they're typically shared among many others so an IP is not a guaranteed signal that it was 'you' who pirated stuff.

Most residential ISPs in the states have 1 ipv4 (and possibly ipv6) assigned per customer and don't CGNAT, from my brief research Frontier doesn't seem to use CGNAT at least for residential internet.

declaredapple··on Billion file filesystem
> There's also no ways to really make a file system faster when dealing with many small files and directories.

Depends on the file/directory structure. Traditionally back in the CGI days URI's were links to files on a server. They often still are for static files. If you know the path to a file then the lookup should be very fast.

But yeah any other type of index other then the path isn't really possible.

declaredapple··on DeepSeekMath 7B achieved 51.7% on MATH benchmark
You either wouldn't be liable anyway (not responsible for what people use it for) or will still be held liable (took no measures to prevent malicious use).
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