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ebalit

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About ebalit

CTO at Exxa

Exxa website: https://withexxa.com

Contact: etienne -at- withexxa.com

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Interests: AI/ML, Research, Robotics, Startups

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    It seems like wero [0] is making some progress on this front without relying digital euro or on crypto. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wero_(payment)

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    It's most probably ZenStack given the description: https://zenstack.dev/

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    Comment #43313415

    The analogy between projects/companies and governments is missing big components though. - "Benevolent Dictators" of companies or projects have to obey the law - They can't forbid …

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    Comment #43016489

    Do you have a chat example you can share where you found it to work great? I feel that the performance varies a lot between domains.

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    Comment #42897885

    You mentioned a model released this week. Is it Lumina new model by any chance?

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    Also commits. I imagine that there is a lot of information to gather from the history of repos in addition to the "static view" of a codebase. However, it doesn't seem trivial to d…

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    Comment #41846313

    I'm totally with you on the evolution of motor tech because of drone and also personal mobility (scooters and hoverboard motors are a steal for what they can handle). While high to…

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    I can't find any information that show a difference as large as 2x. Do you have a specific comparison point in mind? From Nvidia and AMD, I read sparse fp8 at 7 PFLOPs for B100 [0]…

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    But Meta is the main company behind Pytorch development. If they make it work and upstream it, this will cascade to all Pytorch users. We don't have to imagine far, it's slowly hap…

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    When you already know what you building, but not when you're doing exploratory data analysis for example. There is a good reason why the ML community took Python as the favorite la…

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    Comment #41788220

    Hi, Exxa's CTO here. Feel free to ask me anything!

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    I think this might be key, in addition to some landmark tokens to quickly backtrack to. The big question is how to train such model. There is a recent paper from Meta that propose …

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    Transformers can also fetch at any moment any previous information that become useful . RNN are constantly updating and overwriting their memory. It means they need to be able to p…

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    Comment #41719667

    There was a HackadayPrize 2023 competitor that worked on this [0]. He had to rethink the way those devices are built to bring the cost down. That would be interesting to know if hi…

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    He didn't say that Spanner is only a recruitment tool but that the blog posts about Spanner (and other core technologies of Google) might be.

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    Comment #41384479

    I'm not a lawyer but from what I understand the process is closer to what you mention for the US. We have "garde à vue" and "détention provisoire": - "Garde a vue" is similar to be…

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    We built the cheapest Llama 3.1 70B inference API, specialized for tasks that are not time sensitive (ie. batch processing jobs for example). Without any quantization our current p…

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    My question was genuine as I'm not from the gamedev domain and I might have missed the real state of the art. Hard coded dialogs often feel very unnatural and limiting. I can see w…

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    As a gamedev, what would you use currently instead for NPCs? And what would you say makes this/those solutions better than LLMs?