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bigdict

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    Comment #48189014

    But... they are equivalent?

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    Comment #46886499

    Was it a controlled study or just correlation?

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    Comment #46667785

    Huh? Triton inference server and Triton the kernel language are two distinct, very different things… Is this AI-generated?

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    Comment #46535663

    > What actually happens: random Internet users spend two seconds skimming, then click their favorite. > They're not reading carefully. They're not fact-checking, or even trying. Uh…

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    Comment #46094189

    cuz area and power

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    Comment #45811625

    There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium…

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    Comment #45246368

    What's the point of the relu in the loss function? Its inputs are nonnegative anyway.

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    Comment #44642266

    Exactly, it's a natural way to write a college essay . I've never not cringed reading an article/blog post that is structured that way, it comes across very contrived. I've also no…

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    Comment #44641596

    "delves" dashes an explicit "conclusion" section at the end

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    Comment #44550855

    Lisp In Small Pieces

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    Comment #44305787

    Pairs great with the tale of the Death Valley Germans: https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hu... .

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    Comment #44076260

    Once you realize that elisp is a better shell programming language than bash, it ceases to appear insane.

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    Comment #43823916

    Has this been used widely since?

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    Comment #43572877

    Thank you so much for continuing to support Gemma 3 with these updates.

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    Comment #43572821

    Amazing, I've been wishing for this! Do you have any estimates on how much accuracy is first lost then recovered compared to the original bf16 and the naively quantized models?

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    Comment #43562732

    Sure, you can get better model performance by throwing more compute at the problem in different places. Does is it improve perf on an isoflop basis?

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    Comment #43539655

    Gemma 3 is.

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    Comment #43349884

    * the code is at https://github.com/google-deepmind/gemma * you download the weights at https://www.kaggle.com/models/google/gemma-3/

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    Comment #43095575

    "undo their disgusting propaganda, apply our beautiful correct opinions" This is so cringe.

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    Comment #43021458

    Why is it timely?

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    Comment #42935371

    Have you seen the RFK confirmation hearing?

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    Comment #42858982

    You are quoting Wikipedia, not US foreign policy :)

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    Comment #42824896

    Does it have an entry for what we don't know we don't know?

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    Comment #42721603

    > What gave you the impression I was assuming bad faith? You said "I would guess you're not asking a serious question here"