Capsicones

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[–] Capsicones@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Wait, it knows? Is Windows defender developing self-awareness before LLMs?

Edit: typo

[–] Capsicones@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

More flexibility on flight stopovers in China. If you are going somewhere else, China would probably like for you to spend some of your money in a Chinese city. I'm guessing 10 days is the duration because flights occasionally get canceled or delayed. A lot more people would need to apply to extend their visas on stopovers if it was only like 3 days.

Edit: spelling

[–] Capsicones@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 month ago

IBM profiting from a genocide?? Say it ain't so!

[–] Capsicones@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I considered it, but the specs were too low. Ended up choosing a Google Pixel instead.

[–] Capsicones@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Chinese phonology doesn't allow for the pronunciation of "app", for example. I see a lot of Chinese people spelling it as "APP", and pronouncing it accordingly. It's kinda funny to me, since the Mandarin word "yingyong" is only two syllables. "APP" just seems more cumbersome by all account, yet it has become inexplicably popular.

[–] Capsicones@lemmy.blahaj.zone 51 points 2 months ago (3 children)

That's very good. Once I wanted to compile Firefox myself for some reason I no longer remember, but their Mercurial-based system was a hassle to work with. Most of us are already familiar with git. So, I know I'm going to be more inclined to make code contributions now that it uses git.

Just wish they could've chosen another git-based option like Codeberg, or even an internally-hosted server. I'm rather wary of GitHub/Microsoft swallowing up so many open source projects.

[–] Capsicones@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The paper was published by IEEE and with professors as co-authors. Only the second author is a student. And I wouldn't dismiss it out of hand like that because of a magazine article. Students come up with breakthroughs all the time. The paper itself says it disproves Yao's conjecture. I personally plan to implement and benchmark this because the results seem so good. It could be another fibonacci heap situation, but maybe not. Hash tables are so widely used, that it might even be worthwhile to make special hardware to use this on servers, if our current computer architecture is only thing that holds back the performance.

Edit: author sequence

[–] Capsicones@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Some commenters on this post are clearly not aware of PTX being a part of the CUDA environment. If you know this, you aren't who I'm trying to inform.

[–] Capsicones@lemmy.blahaj.zone 119 points 6 months ago (6 children)

There seems to be some confusion here on what PTX is -- it does not bypass the CUDA platform at all. Nor does this diminish NVIDIA's monopoly here. CUDA is a programming environment for NVIDIA GPUs, but many say CUDA to mean the C/C++ extension in CUDA (CUDA can be thought of as a C/C++ dialect here.) PTX is NVIDIA specific, and sits at a similar level as LLVM's IR. If anything, DeepSeek is more dependent on NVIDIA than everyone else, since PTX is tightly dependent on their specific GPUs. Things like ZLUDA (effort to run CUDA code on AMD GPUs) won't work. This is not a feel good story here.

[–] Capsicones@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You can look up Eric Hartford on Huggingface for more info.

Basically, somebody removes such restrictions from models, and publishes uncensored ones under the name "Dolphin". Presumably, an uncensored Deepseek would be called something like "Deepseek R1-dolphin". The full Deepseek R1 is quite large, and I'm not sure when this will happen yet. But there are other great Dolphin models.

Some models like Meta's Llama are way too censored to be useful for many completely normal use cases, and the guy is doing God's work in my opinion.

[–] Capsicones@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 months ago

I liked the UI of Evolution when I used it, but there were some usability issues which made me switch to Thunderbird in the end. There's a good extension in Thunderbird for markdown support when composing emails, which I could not use on Evolution. And Evolution failed to attach .eml files when I tried that (as opposed to including previous emails inline). But if your email use case is very basic, it should be fine.

[–] Capsicones@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 months ago

I don't see a fundamental difference, only that "reactionary" is favored more by leftists, and "regressive" more so by liberals. I myself would use the two interchangeably, depending on the preference of the person I'm talking to.

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