Certain dogs are capable of learning the names for more than 100 different toys
Dogs regularly make top-10 lists of the world’s smartest animals. As any pet owner has likely noticed, though, some dogs—like some people—are sharper than others. And a few might even be, in canine terms, geniuses. As researchers describe today in Scientific Reports, certain dogs are capable of learning the names for more than 100 different […]
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Gemma.cpp: lightweight, standalone C++ inference engine for Gemma models
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German Bundestag Passes Cannabis Legalization
Nach langer politischer Auseinandersetzung hat der Bundestag am Freitag, 23. Februar 2024, den Gesetzentwurf der Bundesregierung „zum kontrollierten Umgang mit Cannabis“ (20/8704, 20/8763) gebilligt. Mit dem Gesetz soll Erwachsenen künftig der Besitz von bis zu 50 Gramm Cannabis für den Eigenkonsum im privaten Raum erlaubt werden. Im öffentlichen Raum soll die Höchstgrenze bei 25 Gramm […]
I don’t think the cheapest APC Back-UPS units can be monitored except in Windows
TL;DR: Despite otherwise seeming to work correctly, I can’t monitor a Back-UPS BX1600MI in Linux without seeing a constant stream of spurious battery detach/reattach and power fail/restore events that last less than 2 seconds each. I’ve tried multiple computers and multiple UPSes of that model. It doesn’t happen in their own proprietary Windows software, so […]
After 14 years in the industry, I still find programming difficult
Many years ago, as a senior computer science student, I spent my days browsing through various job postings online, hoping to find a suitable internship position as a programmer. In addition to intern positions, I would occasionally click on the ads for “senior engineer” positions. Looking back on those ads now, what struck me most, […]
Building a Deep Learning Rig
03 february, 2024 I just got my hands on a mining rig with 3 rtx 3090 founder edition for the modest sum of 1.7k euros. My plan is to transform it into a deep learning ring, to finetune and serve LLM, play with torch distributed with some MoE as well as doing a bit of […]
Gemma, Ollama and LangChainGo
Yesterday Google released Gemma – an open LLM that folks can run locally on their machines (similarly to llama2). I was wondering how easy it would be to run Gemma on my computer, chat with it and interact with it from a Go program. Turns it – thanks to Ollama – it’s extremely easy! Gemma […]
Satoshi – Sirius emails 2009-2011
[email protected] wrote: > All right, I can do the website and the FAQ. I’ll start writing the FAQ > now with the questions that I can think of. That would be great! I added you (dmp1ce) as a dev to the sourceforge project and gave you access to edit the web space and everything. > […]
Jim Keller criticizes Nvidia CUDA, x86 – ‘CUDA’s a swamp, not a moat, like x86’
Jim Keller, a legendary processor architect who has worked on x86, Arm, MISC, and RISC-V processors, this weekend criticized Nvidia’s CUDA architecture and software stack and likened it to x86, which he called a swamp. He pointed out that even Nvidia itself has multiple special-purpose software packages that rely on open-source frameworks for performance reasons. […]