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Re:Understanding DeepMind's Sorting Algorithm by gajnadsgjoas on Monday June 12, 2023 @04:19PM (#36300383)
You wanted to say the one was banned by the author because of all the drama that followed
Re:Understanding DeepMind's Sorting Algorithm by jimsimmons on Monday June 12, 2023 @05:50PM (#36301707)
What drama. Ooc
Re:Understanding DeepMind's Sorting Algorithm by pcj-github on Monday June 12, 2023 @06:21PM (#36302113)
Re:Understanding DeepMind's Sorting Algorithm by skeaker on Monday June 12, 2023 @07:18PM (#36302778)
I don't understand this. What's the contention that's actually getting people upset here?
Re:Understanding DeepMind's Sorting Algorithm by nl on Monday June 12, 2023 @07:34PM (#36302958)
Having read through a bunch of outraged comments the issue seems to have been:

  * It changed the file format
  * For some people it was slower that the original version particularly on low end computers
One person was particularly outraged and reverted the whole change.

However, the current version does use a similar approach to that which was proposed: https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/commit/f963b63afa0e05...

Re:Understanding DeepMind's Sorting Algorithm by nicman23 on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @03:25AM (#36306774)
Lol why oss people are so antisocial - I include myself in the subset
Re:Understanding DeepMind's Sorting Algorithm by mlajtos on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @06:01AM (#36307925)
Just a wild guess – developers lack soft/managerial skills. (Overgeneralization.) In companies, this is accounted for because developers are shielded by managers. But in F/OSS you get to interact directly with the developers. As for the why devs lack soft skills – hold your hats – programming is basically commanding. Without "thank you", without "please" and with lot of swearing. No time for pleasant bullshit. (By this reasoning, devs using declarative/functional programming should be more polite than imperative programmers, right? :D)
Re:Understanding DeepMind's Sorting Algorithm by jart on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @07:58AM (#36308945)
It was 4chan. You can read my comment history on Hacker News if you want to learn more.