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Comment #49212148
How is this relevant?
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Comment #49212086
Trusting snake oil is a wild choice.
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Comment #49170539
I mean what are these devs doing that they are day-1 updating npm packages still? How many instances of this are required before npm package maintainers learn?
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Comment #49127872
Your comment was fine, I didn't think you were implying that at all. I was just trying to clarify that they aren't choosing to do that for arbitrary reasons.
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Comment #49127833
Neat! But, what do you do with a 0.5tk/s LLM? Have you tried running it via llamacpp or other software that supports naive SSD offloading to compare speeds?
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Comment #49127750
The problem is the 'options to be intentionally non-destructive' come with legal liabilities that don't exist if they destroy the original copy.
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Comment #49127655
The scanning process they use is _intentionally_ destructive, not accidentally destructive. It's not because they hate books or something. It's literally to stay in the law due to …
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Comment #49125294
If you bothered to read the article, you'd understand why this is, in fact, a problem.
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Comment #49125227
Weird that you comment on rage bait and end your comment with the idea that this group of people are all a bunch of worthless drug users.
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Comment #49124607
If any editors are reading this thread, the weights are on HF now, but the 'open source' question still implies it's proprietary/API-only.
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Comment #49112936
> Agent code can only be read and understood by agents. This just fundamentally isn't true and if this is your perspective then you're using LLMs wrong.
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Comment #49112764
That's LOC in a single file, that's a bit different from total LOC as a metric. Total LOC is a garbage metric. Things like reducing line count in specific files or components is a …
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Comment #49101392
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Comment #49099693
There quite literally are internals that are called attention heads in modern LLMs. Saying 'there are no attention heads' is objectively false, which definition you follow is irrel…
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Comment #49099368
Ya I'd be interested to see a comparison of using llamacpp with ssd offloading to compare real speeds.
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Comment #49099035
> There are no "attention heads" Yes there quite literally is internally in an LLM.
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Comment #49093421
How is this different from Obsidian? Why would someone switch? The page is a bit lacking on detail.
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Comment #49077099
It's absolutely reasonable to have safeguards on sufficiently dangerous models being released - if you disagree, can you explain your perspective? I think it's wildly irresponsible…
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Comment #49075581
> I would say any AI generated output... would have been extremely easy to detect > I write everything using AI and nobody has detected it Might need to rethink this one, Googling …
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Comment #49071310
Why are you assuming they aren't? The people who have those books are choosing to sell them for a price. What isn't fair?
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Comment #49058583
I'm not sure I'd use the term 'brittle' to describe snake oil.
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Comment #49036974
Reassuring to see this backed by major players. This is the correct stance, hopefully this is the stance that prevails.
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Comment #49023183
The same authority he used to enact tariffs and a war.
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Comment #49009564
Well it seems to be hug-of-death'd - how are you loading 41k points of data?