This man, Fabrice Bellard again... Frankly, I have not seen a more impressive portfolio of programming output.
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#12The Fabrice Bellard web page must be one of the most underselling ones on the entire web. So many amazing projects. Not a word that really emphasize the importance, coolness. Just a simple list with short factual descriptions.
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#14The Fabrice Bellard web page must be one of the most underselling ones on the entire web. So many amazing projects. Not a word that really emphasize the importance, coolness. Just a simple list with short factual descriptions.
These kind of people are like that. Does Linus Torvalds have a web page? No. He knows he doesn't need one. They are gods in the IT industry, and they know it.
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#16Very inspiring stuff! I hope one day we get to see the magic behind libnc.
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#17I've been feeling FOMO (for lack of a better term) about recent AI & ML/GPT progression.
It feels like ML/AI it might be the beginning of the end for a large class of things (if I wanted to be alarmist I'd say "everything") -- and the fact that Fabrice Bellard has jumped in and done the absolutely obvious rising-tide thing (building an API that abstracts the technologies) speaks volumes.
Releasing something like this fits to Fabrice's pattern of work -- he built Qemu and that served as a similar enabling fabric for people to run virtual machines. QuickJS quietly powers some JS-on-another-platform functionality.
Simon was right. The Stable Diffusion moment[0] is already here. It's going to accelerate. It was already moving at a speed that was hard to follow, and it's about to get even faster.
There are too many world-changing things moving forward at the same time, and I'm only looking at such a small cut of the tech sphere. I don't know what to do with myself, I feel so thoroughly unprepared.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm pretty sure a dev skilled in ML and GPUs has no trouble modifying the MIT code (which runs on the CPU) to something that runs on GPUs...
The CPU version is provided under binary format only.
You're right : `The CPU version is released as binary code under the MIT license`. That's quite an unusual choice, not even sure how MIT would apply to that...
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#19> The GPU version is commercial software. Please contact... Shame.
The GPU version of libNC is available as a free binary, and you can find MIT-licensed source code implementing (training and inference of) transformers using libNC at https://bellard.org/nncp. (nncp was meant to be a submission to the Hutter Prize, which would have required open-sourcing libNC too, but it didn't qualify due to using AVX2 and too much RAM. At least the CPU version binary is MIT licensed since ts_server is.) I think it wouldn't be that big a project to support LLaMa starting from that code, although it is dense code.
Edit: licensing
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#20I've been feeling FOMO (for lack of a better term) about recent AI & ML/GPT progression. It feels like ML/AI it might be the beginning of the end for a large class of things (if I wanted to be alarmist I'd say "everything") -- and the fact that Fabrice Bellard has jumped in and done the absolutely obvious rising-tide thing (building an API that abstracts the technologies) speaks volumes. Releasing something like this…
Control freak, by any chance?
Is it really so hard to just "go with the flow"?