Nice initiative, but I feel the ones who can afford to run R1 locally also have the resource to download it
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#12Nice initiative, but I feel the ones who can afford to run R1 locally also have the resource to download it
Yeah, 404 of GPU ram is quite the gpu cluster.
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#13Why not make a snail mailer download service?
Mediawiki dumps, Linux distros, AI models, etc.
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#14That's a really generous offer. However, I feel most people are compute before bandwidth-constrained. I hope over the next years we'll have significantly advanced models 70b without paying $3,000 for something like Nvidia's digit. Perhaps some may be region locked out of downloading such resources which may be able to take you up on your offer though!
In Australia the government legally mandated that I (and most of the country) am not permitted to have a wired internet connection above 25mbit/s. I am very bandwidth constrained.
you forgot to add a /s
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#15That's a really generous offer. However, I feel most people are compute before bandwidth-constrained. I hope over the next years we'll have significantly advanced models 70b without paying $3,000 for something like Nvidia's digit. Perhaps some may be region locked out of downloading such resources which may be able to take you up on your offer though!
In Australia the government legally mandated that I (and most of the country) am not permitted to have a wired internet connection above 25mbit/s. I am very bandwidth constrained.
Could you expound on the rationale of why there's such an imposed limit?
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#16elaborate supply chain attack eventually generates backdoored code
In the days of 56kbps internet days in India, there was a BBS (run by a cabal of sorts) who would download a linux distro CD and mail you a disk. The email would have a link to the original .torrent and if a part of a disk was somehow corrupted, you could download just that chunk via BitTorrent instead of redownloading the whole thing or waiting for a new disk out. Independently sourced checksums fixes most of the tr…
It still baffles me how BitTorrent is not used more for legit use cases of unreliable Internet connections.
I remember installing Silkroad Online (the MMORPG) and noticing the installer used to be a clever BitTorrent client packaged with a single torrent of the game.
Server load balancing on its own.