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hongspike

54 karma · joined May 10, 2024

Aerospace engineer now into LLMs
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hongspike··on SF Mutual Fund Exec Front-Ran His Fund's Trades
The chief investment officer has ultimate decision making power to approve or reject trades. If he wanted his firm to invest in VMWare, it was going to happen.
hongspike··on Abacus.ai CEO: Support Support Trump Because He Backs Open Source AI
Probably according to the poster herself
hongspike··on Panic at the Job Market
To each their own
hongspike··on Llama 3 implemented in pure NumPy
The numpy code can seem more accessible and easy to understand. Torch can look scary even though it's similar to numpy.
hongspike··on Android's theft protection features
Seems like a good idea in theory, but wouldn't this lead to a spike in stolen devices?
hongspike··on Wprs – rootless remote desktop for Wayland (and X11, via XWayland) applications
Cool project.

Maybe a dumb question but what rendering method does Wprs use?

hongspike··on Radient – vectorize many data types, not just text
What are the needs for other sinks besides a vector database?
hongspike··on Energy-Efficient Llama 2 Inference on FPGAs via High Level Synthesis
Trying to understand what cases we would want to use FPGAs rather than GPUs.

Memory bandwidth for FPGAs seems worse, so for serving models don't GPUs still win out?

hongspike··on CS388: Natural Language Processing
MIT's NLP class is also good

    https://www.mit.edu/~jda/teaching/6.864/