Re:Petals: Run 100B+ language models at home bit-torrent style
by z3c0 on Monday January 02, 2023 @09:50AM
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Why not just "decentralized"? I'm not sure I ever saw a blockchain that was posited as "distributed".
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Re:Petals: Run 100B+ language models at home bit-torrent style
by croes on Monday January 02, 2023 @10:10AM
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Blockchain is a distributed ledger.
Re:Petals: Run 100B+ language models at home bit-torrent style
by z3c0 on Monday January 02, 2023 @11:11AM
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Looking into it, you're correct, but only insofar as we're referring to two different meanings of distributed. Bitcoin is a distributed ledger, as in "fault tolerant". But the consensus mechanism is decentralized. Thus, the decision-making is not distributed.
A distributed consensus mechanism would segment the decisions amongst nodes, not poll for a unanimous response.