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alpaca lora is quite capable actually and is suddenly gaining a hell of a lot of traction in the corporate world

dont underestimate how many of those parameters are actually necessary to support multiple languages. If you focus on english only, this can easily reduce the paramters 5fold

you are underestimating the impact of programs like this. The CEO will quickly spot broken processes and inefficiencies. Ass kissing can't make up for business problems. Beyond tha…

I was not expecting this Reddit level of comments on HN. Really hoping you are sarcastic.

the execs definitely miss out on a lot of money because bonus programs are typically multi year. There are always -short term (how did we do this year, the classic everyone gets) -…

on paper, in practice they don't kill products, they just die because of mismanagement. Google is the other hand, they kill products outright even when there is still life in it. W…

the openAI playbook They are brilliant at marketing (look at DALL-E). But then stable diffusion comes along etc and they need to prove their worth against competition. I am afraid …

a 400 month customer is really a tiny fish, don't expect special treatment without support packages. Do you even have an enterprise contract with them? The bronze contract can be h…

yes thats their business model: have universities and institutions pay for access.

it's simple: Many companies are on Azure for some reason. (mainly because of preexisting microsoft contracts, and because its so tightly coupled with office that if you want office…

can you actually link to the ones you recommend then? Because I am quite interested then in figuring out the economics side of obtaining one

you are too pessimistic. Senior profiles definitely dived into the statistics aspect of it all. Experiment design is often a big part of modern business cases, because naturally it…

lol that's such an abuse of statistics that absolutely makes no sense The problem in Portugal is the relation between income and housing cost. If the average rent of a 1 bedroom is…

they mostly use numpy (matrix maths library). So if you use a library for matrix multiplication, inverse, transpose, ... with a nice syntax, you're good to go.

there are education discount programs for students etc..

I've been with DigitalOcean for a very long time, their prices seem comparable to Linode, I always saw them marketed more or less the same. In fact, I don't even know why one would…

no the actual issue is that it would mean a demotion for Ryan Like our tech director spending millions on Microsoft stuff. Anyone sees that it's not really the most sane investment…

I dabbled in this myself, and never managed to beat a classic index tracker. So yes, I made a 3-5% profit over roughly 18 months, but it took a lot of time, stress, and in the end …

If I try that, my banking app refuses to boot because it assumes its jailbroken or something.

I went with AEG specifically because they guarantee at least 10 year of replacement parts availability on those specific devices. To me that's more valuable than a 2 or 3 year warr…

I honestly don't like their hardware either. Well, the camera and battery that is. My huawei and iphone vastly outperform the samsungs I had. I grade Samsung on the same level as S…

it insane how this is often not the reflex of people. If its closer than 2m, attach a cable.

The big elephant in the room remains: cost Google is king in having reduced the cost of search queries. After all, they process billions of them, they need to bring down the cost. …

for a startup, it might actually make more sense. Do you want to pay an engineer to setup the backups and monthly update cycle? Setup the alert monitoring? There is an implicit cos…

self hosting feels like an afterthought. That's a red flag, it means they actually don't have any open source users or ecosystem.