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Re: TextSynth Server

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Post by ionflow »

superkuh wrote: post #82

Anyone know what format the models have to be in for use with textsynth? I looked at the gpt2 example binary (gpt2_117M.bin) and it seems like the "normal" params.json is embedded as a header for the binary and then some ascii string like "attn/c_attn/" and then the binary weights. I tried just using the Stanford Alpaca fine-tuned version of the llama 7B weights that work with llama.cpp with textsynth but it didn't l…

Question for you (sorry I don't have an answer for you): Where are you storing the models relative to the ts_server folder?

Re: TextSynth Server

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Post by munificent »

zachthewf wrote: post #86
munificent wrote: post #78

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Every one of these articles fills me with a related kind of dread. My whole life, my whole personality is architected around making things by hand for other people . My ideal world is a hipster stereotype where we all sit around using a small number of artisanal products to make other artisanal products for each other. The arc of my programming career has gone lower and lower down the stack because when I create, I e…

I understand and share your fear. In a sense, I think we already live in this world: there are many people who are already slaves to YouTube, TikTok, strategically timed push notifications, etc. We live in a world where digital tech is fantastic for people who have the skill and strategy to place healthy limits on their own use of it, and the worst possible world for those who cannot. And it's all about to get much m…

> We live in a world where digital tech is fantastic for people who have the skill and strategy to place healthy limits on their own use of it, and the worst possible world for those who cannot.

I have several family members with ADHD and this is profoundly true. I don't know if they would even have a diagnosable condition if they didn't have the misfortune of living in a world that is actively preying on their attention every moment of their life.

> Today, lonely men and women already suffer. A simulated relationship is a legitimate improvement over no human contact at all.

I disagree. What I see over and over again in society today is that parasocial relationships (fandom, celebrity worship, life vlogging, etc.) enable and intensity loneliness. They provide just enough of an emulation of actual human contact with none of the effort or risk that many people (myself included, sometimes, honestly) do that instead of being forced out the door to get the real thing.

It's exactly like the thing we all do where you wander into the kitchen hungry. You're too lazy to prepare a real meal, so you have some chips or crackers or something and that gives you just enough satiety that you wander off again. But then ten minutes later you're back again, still hungry.

> Maybe there will be more new movies that are actually good!

I would so much rather watch a movie with flaws and that isn't entirely to my taste if it was made by a person who actually cared about what they were doing.

Re: TextSynth Server

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Post by munificent »

turtleyacht wrote: post #93
munificent wrote: post #78

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Every one of these articles fills me with a related kind of dread. My whole life, my whole personality is architected around making things by hand for other people . My ideal world is a hipster stereotype where we all sit around using a small number of artisanal products to make other artisanal products for each other. The arc of my programming career has gone lower and lower down the stack because when I create, I e…

Interested to know what your plans are. You've thought about this a lot, and for me your books sit next to all the others I have on C, assembly, math, etc--and, I am a bit embarrased to say, a large portion of which I still need to study. I don't think I should despair too much, and simply grant triumph to a statistical steamroller. The value is we'll still be making stuff, or yearning for it, and AI becomes a part o…

> Interested to know what your plans are.

I think I'll manage to eke out the rest of my career doing the kinds of programming I enjoy at least until I'm ready to retire. That's basically the extent of my plan.

> Just know you're standing at a height somewhere above, and as a giant to me I hope you can see farther ahead :)

I wish I could, but I'm as lost as the rest of us. I just happened to have written a couple of books.

> Maybe we'll retreat more into our personally-named server, managing a handful of like-minded users, crafting rooms in a MUD no one will read. We'll publish stats for our packet filter, read stories typed by hand, and make little games.

That hits perhaps just a little too close to home.

I think of the countless old folks in garages tinkering on old cars with manual transmissions and no engine computers, simple enough that they can still be tinkered, wishing they still made cars like that today. (I drive a twenty-year-old truck for similar reasons, though I'm not savvy enough to actually work on it.) Or other old folks hand-knitting sweaters and blankets for grandkids who appreciate the gesture but put it into storage because the latest mass produced fast fashion blanket they got off Amazon matches their room's decor better.

The whole thing just makes me feel old and out of touch.

Re: TextSynth Server

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Post by lynx23 »

DrewADesign wrote: post #49
yeahsure22 wrote: post #43

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Well I’m sure that one guy will be able to change the course of history to suit his job situation. It’s going to happen so you had better go with the flow. Become water.

In the US, people's jobs effectively justify their existence. Smugly saying mid or late career professionals can "become water" when their entire career category faces collapse is the most patronizing thing I've heard in a long time. That's a non-recoverable blow to many smart, capable people. There's a big difference between demanding we stop the wheels of progress to protect a few people and saying we owe the masse…

If this is a "non-recoverable blow" then those people were likely not as smart as claimed to begin with...

Re: TextSynth Server

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Post by DrewADesign »

lynx23 wrote: post #114
DrewADesign wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the US, people's jobs effectively justify their existence. Smugly saying mid or late career professionals can "become water" when their entire career category faces collapse is the most patronizing thing I've heard in a long time. That's a non-recoverable blow to many smart, capable people. There's a big difference between demanding we stop the wheels of progress to protect a few people and saying we owe the masse…

If this is a "non-recoverable blow" then those people were likely not as smart as claimed to begin with...

What a ridiculous thing to say. People's brains become less plastic over time and the longer we stay in one specialty, the less we keep up with unrelated tech and knowledge. Intelligence had no bearing on whether a late career radiologist could pivot into a totally different category of job if deep learning eliminated the need for the only medical career they were qualified to do. As a long time developer, it blows my mind how common this hubris was among my colleagues. As depressing as it will be to see the overwhelming majority of software developers rendered obsolete by progressively more sophisticated code generation tools, I will be glad to see the naive arrogance in the software world taken down a few hundred notches. It's an industry full of people convinced that they are too smart and useful to get left behind. Lol good luck.
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