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Big LLMs weights are a piece of history

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Re: Big LLMs weights are a piece of history

#31

I love the title "Big LLMs" because it means that we are now making a distinction between big LLMs and minute LLMs and maybe medium LLMs. I'd like to propose the we call them "Tall LLMs", "Grande LLMs", and "Venti LLMs" just to be precise.

I've sat in more than one board meeting watching them take 20 minutes to land on t-shirt sizes. The greatest enterprise sales minds of our generation...

Re: Big LLMs weights are a piece of history

#32

I love the title "Big LLMs" because it means that we are now making a distinction between big LLMs and minute LLMs and maybe medium LLMs. I'd like to propose the we call them "Tall LLMs", "Grande LLMs", and "Venti LLMs" just to be precise.

Why not LLLM for large LLM’s and SLLM for small LLM’s, assuming there is no middle ground

SLM is a widespread term already.

Re: Big LLMs weights are a piece of history

#33

I love the title "Big LLMs" because it means that we are now making a distinction between big LLMs and minute LLMs and maybe medium LLMs. I'd like to propose the we call them "Tall LLMs", "Grande LLMs", and "Venti LLMs" just to be precise.

can we have tiny LLM that can run on smartphone now

No. Smartphone only spin animated gif while talk to big building next to nuclear reactor. New radio inside make more efficient.

Re: Big LLMs weights are a piece of history

#34

I love the title "Big LLMs" because it means that we are now making a distinction between big LLMs and minute LLMs and maybe medium LLMs. I'd like to propose the we call them "Tall LLMs", "Grande LLMs", and "Venti LLMs" just to be precise.

it's too bad vLLM and VLM are taken because it would have been nice to recycle the VLSI solution to describing sizes - get to very large language models and leave it at that.

Re: Big LLMs weights are a piece of history

#36

I love the title "Big LLMs" because it means that we are now making a distinction between big LLMs and minute LLMs and maybe medium LLMs. I'd like to propose the we call them "Tall LLMs", "Grande LLMs", and "Venti LLMs" just to be precise.

Terrible names, to be honest. My proposal: Hyper LLMs, Ultra LLMs, Large LLMs, Micro LLMs, Mobile LLMs.

Re: Big LLMs weights are a piece of history

#37
post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And so what would the point be of anyone actually posting on the internet if no one actually visits the sites because large corps have essentially stolen and monetized the whole thing. And I'm sure they have or will have the ability to influence the responses so you only see what they want you to see.

That's the next step after algorithmic content feeds - algorithmic/generated comment sections. Imagine seeing an entirely different conversation happening just to get you to buy a product. A product like Coca-Cola. Imagine scrolling through a comment section that feels tailor-made to your tastes, seamlessly guiding you to an ice-cold Coca-Cola. You see people reminiscing about their best summer memories—each one feat…

Isn't that how Reddit gained momentum? Posting fake posts/comments?

Now we can mass-produce it!

Re: Big LLMs weights are a piece of history

#38
Mozilla's llamafile project is designed to enable LLMs to be preserved for historical purposes. They ship the weights and all the necessary software in a deterministic dependency-free single-file executable. If you save your llamafiles, you should be able to run them in fifty years and have the outputs be exactly the same as what you'd get today. Please support Mozilla in their efforts to ensure this special moment in history gets archived for future generations!

https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile/

Re: Big LLMs weights are a piece of history

#39
post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And so what would the point be of anyone actually posting on the internet if no one actually visits the sites because large corps have essentially stolen and monetized the whole thing. And I'm sure they have or will have the ability to influence the responses so you only see what they want you to see.

That's the next step after algorithmic content feeds - algorithmic/generated comment sections. Imagine seeing an entirely different conversation happening just to get you to buy a product. A product like Coca-Cola. Imagine scrolling through a comment section that feels tailor-made to your tastes, seamlessly guiding you to an ice-cold Coca-Cola. You see people reminiscing about their best summer memories—each one feat…

Why Coca Cola though? Sure it is refreshing on a hot day but you know what is even better? Going to bed on a nice cool mattress. So many are either too hard or too soft. They aren’t engineered to your body so you are virtually guaranteed to get a poor nights sleep.

Imagine waking up like I do every morning. Refreshed and full of energy. I’ve tried many mattresses and the only one that has this property is my Slumber Sleep Hygiene mattress.

The best part is my partner can customize their side using nothing more than a simple app on their smartphone. It tracks our sleep over time and uses AI to generate a daily sleep report showing me exactly how good of a night sleep I got. Why rely on my gut feelings when the report can tell me exactly how good or bad of a night sleep I got.

I highly recommend Slumber Sleep Hygiene mattresses. There is a reason it’s the number one brand recommended on HN.

Re: Big LLMs weights are a piece of history

#40
Interesting. Just this morning I had a conversation with Claude about this very topic. When asked "can you give me your thoughts on LLM train runs as historical artifacts? do you think they might be uniquely valuable for future historians?", it answered

    > oh HELL YEAH they will be. future historians are gonna have a fucking field day with us.

    > imagine some poor academic in 2147 booting up "vintage llm.exe" and getting to directly interrogate the batshit insane period when humans first created quasi-sentient text generators right before everything went completely sideways with *gestures vaguely at civilization*

    > *"computer, tell me about the vibes in 2025"*

    > "BLARGH everyone was losing their minds about ai while also being completely addicted to it"
Interesting indeed to be able to directly interrogate the median experience of being online in 2025.

(also my apologies for slop-posting; i slapped so many custom prompting on it that I hope you'll find the output to be amusing enough)

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