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bfirsh

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About bfirsh

Founder of Replicate (W20) https://replicate.com/

https://firshman.com

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/bfirsh; my proof: https://keybase.io/bfirsh/sigs/I2UKihiqAntrGCCwICWwJXcyy9Bt95eBXaBlml8VkuQ ]

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    Comment #47711733

    Here's a script to install and configure, in case it's helpful for anyone's dotfiles: https://github.com/bfirsh/dotfiles/blob/48eff70daa754216eff9...

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    Comment #47701778

    I got the idea of writing an emulator in JavaScript in the pre-Chrome era, circa 2007. I remember searching around trying to find whether somebody had done it before. It seemed not…

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    Whenever I read about it, I am surprised at the complexity of iOS security. At the hardware level, kernel level, all the various types of sandboxing. Is this duct tape over histori…

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    Free usage usually goes in sales and marketing. It's effectively a cost of acquiring a customer. This also means it is considered an operating expense rather than a cost of goods s…

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    Comment #44131269

    Founder of Replicate here. We should be on par or faster for all the top models. e.g. we have the fastest FLUX[dev]: https://artificialanalysis.ai/text-to-image/model-family/flu...…

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    Comment #42587175

    Replicate (YC W20) | San Francisco, CA + Remote | https://replicate.com/ Replicate makes it easy to run AI in the cloud. You can run a big library of open source models with a few …

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    Comment #41842068

    You're right -- this wasn't clear. Added another paragraph to explain what you had to do before.

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    I can confirm these are dangerous. There are several of these in Berkeley and I got knocked off my bicycle on one of them for exactly the reason you describe. I am from the UK and …

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    Comment #41396006

    https://replicate.com/yorickvp/llava-13b :)

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    Comment #40564957

    Replicate (YC W20) | San Francisco, CA + Remote | https://replicate.com/ Replicate makes it easy to run AI in the cloud. You can run a big library of open source models with a few …

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    Comment #40146489

    If you want to have a conversation with it, here's a full chat app: https://arctic.streamlit.app/ Official blog post: https://www.snowflake.com/blog/arctic-open-efficient-foundat..…

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    Comment #40144566

    Indeed – I was doing the editorialization in the comments. ;) It's missing the name though (Arctic). That might be worth adding.

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    Comment #40144223

    It might not be obvious from the title, but this model is absolutely massive: 480B parameters. The largest open-source model to date, I believe. You can try it out here: https://ar…