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Every time I look at it, it seems like it's a worse llama.cpp that removes options to make things "easier".
I can't exactly blame them.
In the latest furor over deepseek r1 the conversation online was _substantially_ worse than what you'd get from feeding the original paper into r1 and talking to it.
This was the first time where I genuinely wondered what the point of reading groups, message boards and similar is. A model that you can run locally for $6,000 at 20tokens/s beat however many thousands of people because it actually spent the time to read what it talked about.
It sounds like he got exactly what he wanted to.
>I must admit, though, that the thing that scared me most about HudZah was that he seemed to be living in a different technological universe than I was. If the previous generation were digital natives, HudZah was an AI native.
The one thing I'm somewhat ambivalent about is that LLMs are extremely atomizing. It's incredibly easy to go offline for months on end when you're talking to your computer.
If I got hit by a bus in 2005 when I was contributing to Linux and Postgres there were people who would pick up what I was doing and carry it forward.
If I get hit by a bus today, unless someone went through my chats, no one would really have any idea what I'd been working on and carry it on. I have a suspicion that a ton of the best and brightest have gone dark for this reason in the last two years.
There are things, like doc strings for functions, that llama models give better results for.
You can't pay me to use AMD cards. I have work to do. I don't have time to write drivers for cards that no one supports.
The point of the deepseek r1 paper is that the more synthetic data you generate by over trained models the better the resulting model. That means more GPUs. There is no reason why you can't train a dozen models like their nameless logic model in other domains and then use them for synthetic data augmentation.
What gets me about the deepseek work is that it's neither novel or theoretically difficult.
I've been using a similar synthetic data pipeline to generate examples for sota bert embedding models.
That low-hanging fruits like this are left unexplored by meta or alphabet - and if we're to be believed lead to crisis meetings for a week straight - makes one wonder wtf the engineers there are doing?
Both at the tactical level and strategic level that paper means we will see _more_ nvidia gpus fly off the shelves. If anything it's showing why the h800 is a decent card and everyone in China should buy one (dozen thousands).
>Your Klansplaining is ridiculous
>wtf is wrong with you!
Ah blue sky, keeps reminding me why I left a day after I signed up.
The full version... If you have to ask you can't afford it.
I build these things for a living.
This is a solved problem.
You use multiple different types of models to supervise the worker models and force them to redo the work until you get a result that makes sense, or they fail and you give the resulting dump to a human to figure out what went wrong or ignore it.
Inference time compute is through the roof, but when you can save thousands of dollars by spending hundreds it's a no brainer.
Some people want AI to be as infallible as god before they'd consider it useful.
Its just that it costs too much to do that for the hoi polloi who think everything digital should be free forever.
R1 is a 650b monster no one can run locally.
This is like complaining an electric bike only goes up to 80km/h
A corporate antivirus is a rather large step down.
It's not like I can't exfiltrate all their data with a python script and a web cam.