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pk-protect-ai··on Mistral AI launches Mixtral-Next
I have the same impression. It is less verbose and doesn't beat around the bush (unlike GPT-3.5/4.5-Turbo), provides almost the same quality of code for the test cases I have, and has similar (GPT-4) or much better (GPT-3.5) spatial comprehension. It is at the GPT-3.5 level of math (read it as not good enough but better than anything else).
pk-protect-ai··on World model on million-length video and language with RingAttention
The information is in the model card though:

Books3 dataset 700B text-image pairs from Laion-2B-en, filtered to only keep images with at least 256 resolution 400M text-image pairs from COYO-700M, filtered to only keep images with at least 256 resolution 10M text-video pairs from WebVid10M 3M text-video pairs from a subset of InternVid10M 73K text-video chat pairs from Valley-Instruct-73K 100K text-video chat pairs from Video-ChatGPT

pk-protect-ai··on World model on million-length video and language with RingAttention
This is a BOMB! Love it!
pk-protect-ai··on Stable-Audio-Demo
I would say that GPT-3 and its successors have nothing to do with open source, and if OpenAI uses open source as a shield, then we are all doomed. I would distance myself and any open source projects from involvement in OpenAI court cases as far as possible. Yes, they have delivered some open source models, but not all of them. Their defense must revolve around fair use and purchased content if they use books and materials that were never freely available. It should be permissible to purchase a book or other materials once and use them for the training of an unlimited number of models without incurring licensing fees.
pk-protect-ai··on The Catalogue of UK Entrances to Hell (2002)
Though these gates are not sinister enough, in my opinion, it would be a nice idea to make a game out of it with a plot around gate research. It could be fun...

Disclaimer: I am not nostalgic for the internet of the old days, especially the times when you had a few websites to access, mostly university sites, and you could memorize each and every IP address. I actually hate the fact that the major search engines (especially Bing and Google) try to deceive me with the URLs I don't need. During the times of Altavista and Yahoo, I had the regex pipeline to filter their searches; however, this tactic is now futile...

pk-protect-ai··on AMD funded a drop-in CUDA implementation built on ROCm: It's now open-source
> After two years of development and some deliberation, AMD decided that there is no business case for running CUDA applications on AMD GPUs

Who was responsible at AMD for this project and why is he still not fired???????? How brain dead someone have to be to reject the major market share??????

pk-protect-ai··on Sam Altman Seeks Trillions of Dollars to Reshape Business of Chips and AI
> Could you give explanation, or even speculations, how this is possible

Nope. But i'm so desperate to give you a hint right now, it is almost impossible to hold myself... Stop looking into horizontal scalability. The vertical one is not exhausted yet. Btw that was not the hint.

pk-protect-ai··on Deleting and destroying finished movies
Isn't Hollywood very well known money laundering machine?
pk-protect-ai··on Sam Altman Seeks Trillions of Dollars to Reshape Business of Chips and AI
> GPT-2 is may be last LLM

This is not true. You have tones of models those are even better than GPT-3.5 and really close in performance to GPT-4 and you still can train them on a single GPU with 24GB video memory. There is a hint at yet better models published last year which you can train on a single GPU and have a model comparable in performance to LLaMA2 34B. The horizontal scaling which you appeal here, may fit into 10^6 performance increase, but in general I expect single node to be at least 1000 times faster than now. And it is totally feasible that you can't scale with 0.99 vertically and of course not horizontally, but I honestly expect the scaling per GPU get better than 0.75 in next 5 years.

pk-protect-ai··on Sam Altman Seeks Trillions of Dollars to Reshape Business of Chips and AI
We are indeed talking about a 10^6 factor here ... It's not just 10x or 100x, or even 1000x ... If NVIDIA strips away everything not required from their chips, adds more SDRAM and HBM, it won't improve performance by 100x, maybe they'll make it 10x-15x with this. But they claim they are going to achieve a 10^6x improvement in performance. Even if they end up delivering an ARM-compatible CPU with built-in Tensor core, built-in HBM, and vast SDRAM, without DDR RAM at all, how fast can it be? This promise of 10^6x performance improve is a paradigm shift. They know something that we are not. Or they are just bluffing.
pk-protect-ai··on Accidentally making windows vanish in my old-fashioned Unix X environment
That's a dedication ... eating glass for 35 years or so ... I'm not better though, over decades I've stuck with GNOME 2 (MATE desktop atm) ... This made me think right now, what exactly do I want from a desktop environment, and why am I satisfied with GNOME 2? I need to make a list of it and really think about it.
pk-protect-ai··on ZX – A tool for writing better scripts
No way. If your script requires something more complex than what is difficult to implement or maintain in bash, then it is no longer just a script. Regardless of how small the resulting application may be, you should treat it as an application and not merely a script. Node.js is not typically used in the system layer where Bash scripts are commonly employed. No single administrator would replace Bash with Node.js. For parallel execution and asynchronous operations, tools like ansible exist, along with python, which administrators are already familiar with.
pk-protect-ai··on Sam Altman Seeks Trillions of Dollars to Reshape Business of Chips and AI
Is there any startup which is ready to compete with this: https://www.redsharknews.com/nvidia-wants-to-increase-comput... ?
pk-protect-ai··on Should error messages apologize? (2013)
It is so annoying when software issues an apology, and LLMs are especially annoying because of their constant apologies. I can't use any of them anymore unless I precondition them to be laconic and limit their output. It's such a waste of time and resources.
pk-protect-ai··on Tether Reports Record $2.85B Profit as Biggest Stablecoin Nears $100B Market Cap
When is the rug pull?
pk-protect-ai··on In a 'Dark Dimension,' Physicists Search for the Universe's Missing Matter
I can make wild hypotheses about hidden dimensions all day long too ...

It appears obvious that if you add a 1D dimension that is perpendicular to all three observable dimensions and is a vector of the universe's expansion where most energy resides, then the universe expands at a constant rate in that 1D dimension and our observable 3D dimensions stretch by this vector in all directions simultaneously. However, we observe that the universe's expansion rate is accelerating, which suggests two things about our observations:

1. What we observe is under the time dilation effect, and each part of the universe we observe can have different rates of the time dilation effect due to the gravitational gradient of mass and the speed of matter (not the expansion speed). Thus, the universe is really expanding at a constant rate, and we are progressively slowpokes (our local time dilation effect is increasing... What could be the reason for this?).

2. There is no hidden dimension...

Adding an additional dimension of micron size transforms it into a 3D dimension. This is too far-stretched, even for a wild guesser like me...

pk-protect-ai··on Epitaph – Fermi Paradox Simulator
I'm depressed. They all die. I suppose due to the name of this game, there are no chances of surviving for any of them.

... permanent colonies on worlds other than Fratlat. Although still largely unable to travel outside of the Latbûut system, the distribution of Fratbac civilization across multiple worlds greatly reduces the risk that they will collapse due to any crisis of merely planetary scale.

In 3904, a swarm of self-replicating Fratbac nanobots began to replicate uncontrollably, devouring vast swaths of Fratlat at a rate which Fratbac scientists had formerly deemed impossible. After several days of rapid expansion, the swarm seems to have become dormant, but not before consuming approximately 5% of the entire mass of Fratlat and rendering Fratbac civilization completely extinct.

pk-protect-ai··on Epitaph – Fermi Paradox Simulator
Why do you need to teach any of these civilizations fire and toolmaking? These are pre-civ capabilities. Toolmaking is natural for the species you even not considering being sentient. Like birds for example. Usage of fire is somewhat different but it would be learned naturally by the any sentient species.

Also, where are the probabilities for mass-extinction-event-volcanic-eruptions are coming from? It looks like they are very likely to happen ... I have 8/10 so far...

pk-protect-ai··on I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do [video]
Do you really mean that humans can survive without ecosystem? Mass extinction events are causing chain reactions ... I do not care about the causes. I'm not a climate activist. I'm just an average guy that can't do a squat and tired to be afraid for my children's future. I just accepted the fact that humanity will destroy itself sooner or later. I do not see any point in expecting wonders.
pk-protect-ai··on I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do [video]
Nice error that have caused removal of the topic from the top.
pk-protect-ai··on How to do things if you're not that smart and don't have any talent
Summary of the text: "How to herd a heard of nerds?"
pk-protect-ai··on I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do [video]
What is your point? My point is, there will be no escape for humanity with no regard to their contribution to the climate change... We are in this together, though 99% of the human population can't do a thing about it.
pk-protect-ai··on I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do [video]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_extinction_events

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrate_gun_hypothesis

Citation: The associated period of massive carbon release into the atmosphere has been estimated to have lasted from 20,000 to 50,000 years. The entire warm period lasted for about 200,000 years. Global temperatures increased by 5–8 °C.[21]

The hot-models Sabine referred to are in range of 4.8 - 5.6 if I'm not mistaken...

pk-protect-ai··on I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do [video]
Don't misunderstand me here. I'd rather be wrong regarding my "doomism," and I no longer worry about climate change; it doesn't make sense to worry about something that can't be changed. However, I observe that people aren't scared enough to take action. They continue to dance around the issue in political euphoria. The changes to our lifestyle are happening too slowly to be effective. The gas and oil industry is doing a lot of carbon emission washing, like CSS. Many optimists argue, "We can't predict it, therefore we shouldn't be worried."
pk-protect-ai··on I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do [video]
Madagascar and lot of countries in Africa already suffering.

https://reliefweb.int/disaster/dr-2018-000141-mdg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp_UaZMeyCs&t=3s

pk-protect-ai··on I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do [video]
Oh... How many mass extinction events have humanity survived as a species so far? I would also like to see this data... pretty please?
pk-protect-ai··on I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do [video]
Here is where you are incorrect in your anticipation. The amount of land usable for agriculture will be decreasing faster than the ice shields melt. The territory where the fertile soil is available will not be human-friendly for the entire season, if at all. You can't make people work at 50°C or even 45°C with 90° humidity. You can't breathe water...

https://ourworldindata.org/land-use

pk-protect-ai··on I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do [video]
It's all about timing. You need the ice shields to be gone before you deploy the new soil; otherwise, it will be scraped or eroded. You also need to consider rising sea levels. You may need to think about bringing the soil first and storing it there until it's usable. Otherwise, you could lose it.
pk-protect-ai··on I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do [video]
What was that story about a frog which was slowly boiled in a pot and didn't know it about it until it was too late?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7069279/

pk-protect-ai··on I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do [video]
The video link was correct at the start. I believe that OP has decided to change it due to rate of doomism and rising depression levels.
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