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https://rentry.org/Jarted I'm not sure if it's 4chan but it appears to be some chan.
When I was working on solving the mmap() problem in https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/issues/91 (that issue tracks the full history) I originally wrote a malloc() hack to prove zero latency load times could work. But I thought we should hold off and wait until we could fix the file format before merging anything into master.
A week or so later, an anonymous GitHub user called Slarin pointed out something really smart. He said the 7B model only has 1D tensors, so we could bring the benefits of mmap() to 7B users right away. My file format change would have solved it for all models. But it wasn't ready yet. So when Slarin asked me to abandon my mmap branch, start over, and use his change as the starting point, I said sure. Since that would have ensured users of the project get some benefit as soon as possible. And we could iterate.
So Slarin and I collaborated on Discord. I had a really positive impression. As far as I knew, everything was fine. Slarin made a pull request, which he kept in draft mode. The work he was doing was basically to (1) call mmap() to load the full weights into memory, and (2) update the tensor->data instead of calling read() if the tensor was 1D. The issue is he Slarin got blocked on getting the WIN32 support to work. He had difficulties getting it to not crash. And by the time he was blocked, I had already finished rewriting the file format and data conversion tools. So I said, since I'm done with the full change, just push whatever you did to your PR branch, and I'll just rebase on that, I'll fix your WIN32 code, and then we'll merge our commits as part of the same PR. That PR was https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/pull/613 where I was very careful to recognize and document all of Slarin's contributions, which are now reflected in the master branch.
Slarin agreed, and told me "it looks like you've got this situation handled" and then left. We haven't seen him on the Discord since. I honestly had no idea he was so unhappy about the way things went. It really bums me out, because I have no way of ensuring people stay happy if they don't tell me they're unhappy. It appears, based on the link above, that Slarin felt I had put him in charge of the mmap() contribution and that the change belonged to him because his work was going to be its genesis once merged in the master branch. After the contribution went viral, he probably felt I didn't do enough to give him credit (I'm not exactly sure how to credit an anonymous developer more than I did?) and as a result he went to an online forum to ask a troll brigade to give justice.
The fallout of that "chan" troll brigade, is what you see here. They've also been going after my Wikipedia page among other things. I'm probably never going to work with an anonymous person again. I'm a public figure. I live with the sword of damocles hanging over my head. The power that gives anonymous people over me is really quite huge. The consequences here have damaged my reputation and career. And I don't even know who I'd reach out to if I wanted to mediate this. Quite a shame.