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Re: YaLM-100B: Pretrained language model with 100B parameters

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Post by ginjas »

dang wrote: post #547
ginjas wrote: post #409

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>I reject the false equivalence of the DHS and FSB. Not gonna both-sides this, sorry. lmao mkay. Not identical, but very similar. It's not even 'Alex Jones'-tier to say this. I think you forget you are if you are under US or (even NATO). YOU WILL hear propaganda from your side, as the Russians do. It's NORMAL. We live under control of a hegemon with self-interests. May I have to remind you of these? And tell me the d…

Would you please stop posting flamewar comments and using HN for ideological battle? We ban accounts that do those things, and you've already been doing it repeatedly. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

>Would you please stop posting flamewar comments

Sure, my rhetotic got kinda out of line. I get excited debating.

>and using HN for ideological battle

I reject the characterization, it's almost implying I have an end with these posts besides putting a point of view that's at least an alternative to status quo that can make people realize they don't have any skin in the game, and that the US State Dept. has. I also don't. I don't really care about the outcome of the war.

>If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

I'll do that then. Thanks for the heads up.

Re: YaLM-100B: Pretrained language model with 100B parameters

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Post by colordrops »

marshray wrote: post #455
colordrops wrote: post #367

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Julian Assange anyone? Gary Webb? Michael Hastings? And you've got Abby Martin and Chris Hedges who've had much of their content removed by YouTube. Chris Hedges is even a Pulitzer prize winner.

You've named three people, and some YouTube videos. On the other side, the FSB has deported 1.3 million innocent Ukrainian civilians to concentration camps. (number is from official Russian sources)

I thought we were talking about journalist.

Re: YaLM-100B: Pretrained language model with 100B parameters

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Post by colordrops »

azinman2 wrote: post #418
colordrops wrote: post #363

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You're going to get downvoted, but Eric Schmidt worked regularly with the state department, and google employees were involved in spurring the color revolutions. Julian Assange detailed this in a newsweek article before his name and body were smeared into the ground: https://www.newsweek.com/assange-google-not-what-it-seems-27... Oh, but they say he's not trustworthy, or that it's a conspiracy theory that he was inte…

I think you ran out of tinfoil this one is so large.

Always the response is to smear with the same thoughtless label when no valid criticism is put forward. There is a link to an actual proposal by a CIA contractor, no tinfoil necessary.

Re: YaLM-100B: Pretrained language model with 100B parameters

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Post by t_mann »

lumost wrote: post #456

To add a voice of skepticism. The recent rush to open source these models may be indicative that the tens of millions that’s spent training these things has relatively poor roi. There may be a hope that someone else figures out how to make these commercially useful.

Only half-joking use case: active communities like this one on HN make sites attractive to human visitors. A new site could use bots to fake activity. Not sure it would work in the long run though.

Re: YaLM-100B: Pretrained language model with 100B parameters

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Post by The_Colonel »

xpl wrote: post #581
The_Colonel wrote: post #569

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> It's just a wishful thinking. It wont "collapse", it would just become controlled by government That's why part of my suggestion is to burn the equipment/infrastructure and delete the code. > They will recruit soldiers through Yandex services, they make Yandex develop AI-controlled tanks and whatnot And the only thing stopping them now from doing that is that Yandex is not nationalized. Yeah, sure. > Of course not,…

> Russia can't sustain waging wars if they don't have an economy and disgruntled population. Russia can wage wars on natural resource selling alone, it only needs to keep the gas and oil flowing through the infrastructure. All those private companies' activities the government sees mostly as a distraction, it doesn't give a damn about them (until they get in the way). They don't matter much. It's very much unlike the…

> Russia can wage wars on natural resource selling alone, it only needs to keep the gas and oil flowing through the infrastructure.

With sanctions it can't.

> So if Yandex leaves the scene, the only game in town would be state-owned. This only reinforces the evil regime.

It doesn't. Nationalization of companies rarely works well. Even then they can be hurt, made unprofitable, forcing the evil regime to divert resources.

> In a huge decentralized company I don't know how one could even pull that off.

A lot of things are not that decentralized. GitHub/GitLab is actually central, just delete it. Dev machines can be wiped out remotely. Private keys, certs, credentials are stored somewhere more or less centrally. Delete the user data on the servers.

You can make a lot of damage. It might not be perfect, somewhere git clones might survive, but it will cause a major outage/data loss.

> And the moment you try that, the government swoops in and goodbye the company.

You overestimate the ability of state to react quickly enough. If you plan ahead, this can be pulled off in short time.

> That is essentially the same as killing the company

So what? You're somehow attached to keeping the company afloat. It has no value compared to hundreds of people being killed daily in the war as we speak.

Re: YaLM-100B: Pretrained language model with 100B parameters

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Post by shakow »

orbital-decay wrote: post #605
cpursley wrote: post #580

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Actually they're not, some of the Yandex products are actually better and pretty innovative (ignoring the political stuff). Maps and Go are especially good. Ditto with Russian banking apps, they put American bank apps to shame.

>some of the Yandex products are actually better and pretty innovative (ignoring the political stuff). Maps and Go are especially good. Yeah, the same Yandex Maps that stopped showing state borders recently, as they are now "more focused on natural objects", in their words.

At the same time, from a consumer perspective, this sacrifice to internal political pressures won't hamper your usage of the product. It's not like if international borders were the most important annotation on a map for everyday use.

Edit: in fact, I just checked, yandex maps still shows state borders.

Re: YaLM-100B: Pretrained language model with 100B parameters

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Post by jokethrowaway »

alphabetting wrote: post #558
narrator wrote: post #553

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Search Google and Yandex for "2020 election fraud." The results are VERY different. The Zach Vorhies leak shows that Google regularly does blatant censorship for political purposes.[1] [1] https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2021/08/19/google-whistleblow...

Google: 118M results. Top link is the best resource on verified election fraud cases. Yandex: 9M results. The top two links are pretty suspect. Top link promotes Dinesh D'Souza's 2000 Mules documentary in the banner which at best is a one-sided take on election fraud. At worst, very misleading. https://i.imgur.com/n5a9LOd.png

Precisely the point.

I didn't even hear about 2000 Mules until I heard some right wing commentator talk about it months after it was released.

Instead I'm shoved the latest Greta Thunberg song (You can shove your climate crisis up you **) 5 milliseconds after she sung it.

As an avid newspaper and news reader, the media bias shifted tremendously in the last 30 years.

Re: YaLM-100B: Pretrained language model with 100B parameters

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Post by sandGorgon »

p1esk wrote: post #465
sandGorgon wrote: post #333

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doesnt seem the code is there - pretrained models are there. https://github.com/kingoflolz/mesh-transformer-jax/#gpt-j-6b https://huggingface.co/EleutherAI/gpt-j-6B isnt that so ?

The code is there: https://github.com/EleutherAI/gpt-neox

oh pretty cool thanks. i was looking at the gpt-j-6B. but this is pretty cool.

Re: YaLM-100B: Pretrained language model with 100B parameters

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Post by pastacacioepepe »

lotusmars wrote: post #222
pastacacioepepe wrote: post #193

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If I counted every time a NATO member committed worse atrocities but wasn't held accountable at all I'd probably stop after Ukraine is conquered. What did they expect? Probably indifference, same reaction to any war crime committed by the west so far.

Say what you want, most people in Eastern Europe, Ukraine and even lots of people in Russia would prefer to be under protection of NATO. If it were not for NATO, Russian rapists would already be in Tallinn, Vilnius, Helsinki. Claiming they were offended by historical injustices therefore women should be raped and men shot dead ("denazified").

> Say what you want, most people in Eastern Europe, Ukraine and even lots of people in Russia would prefer to be under protection of NATO.

Not the people in Donbass and Crimea apparently.

> Russian rapists

Oh please, quit the blatant Lyudmila Denisova propaganda. She was fired by your own government for all the falsehood she spread.

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