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charles_irl

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About charles_irl

Building useful technology out of large neural networks. https://modal.com

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    Very cool! > Unless you've actually watched tokens stream at those rates, the numbers are hard to internalize. This is the rendering. I built something similar recently, for the sa…

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    To clarify: we do content-based hashing, and when we say "shared bytes aren’t guaranteed to be in the exact same container image layer", what we mean is that FROM some/image RUN pi…

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    You're absolutely right!

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    Yep! That should start in ten seconds or so -- about a second per gigabyte of weights, plus a second to start the container and a few seconds to load the memory snapshot. There are…

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    Cutting latencies by 40x! Unfortunately couldn't fit the whole title in the character limit :<

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    > Ed Zitron also called out the business model of GPU-as-a-service middleman companies like modal deeply unsustainable, and I also don't see how they can make a profit if they are …

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    Sorry to lead with a bunch of jargon! Wanted to make it obvious that we'd give concrete recommendations instead of palaver. The technical terms there are later explained and diagra…

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    oof ty, willfix

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    Inspired by https://float.exposed , which was on the front page recently, I put together this visualizer for lower precision/quantized floating point numbers -- specifically, all o…

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    Thanks! I think computers are fun and I want reading about them to be fun too. I was also reminded of HazyResearch's MegaKernels. Didn't want to distract from the main thrust of th…