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Does anyone know how the results from a 7B parameter model with bloomz.cpp (https://github.com/NouamaneTazi/bloomz.cpp) compares to the 7B parameter Alpaca model with llama.cpp (https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp)?

I have the latter working on a M1 Macbook Air with very good results for what it is. Curious if bloomz.cpp is significantly better or just about the same.

Re:Little Snitch Mini on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @09:34PM (#35269451)
Sounds like an excuse to just not display the price.

> 2. Only show $US pricing on the website and let non-US customers manually translate to their local pricing - not a great experience for non-US users

It's a worse experience for someone to convert USD to their currency (instant mentally or 2 seconds on Google) compared to launching the app store, installing the app, getting to the purchase menu, and seeing the price?

Re:Little Snitch Mini on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @08:52PM (#35269199)
I have to download and install the app to see how much it costs?

They don't even list the price along with their other products: https://obdev.at/shop/index.html

> [...] what if one simply does not want to see these graphics? CS:GO doesn't even have an setting to disable them [...]

Yes it does.

1. Open up your console by pressing the ` key

2. Type in the following command: `cl_blood 1`

3. Press enter

> weights refer to the trained model weights

This is what I'm having a hard time understanding.

So there's the weights, and also a model somewhere? That the weights are based on? Or that you combine with the model to tune it?

> “The ACLU has been this nation’s leading defender of free speech for more than a century. We firmly believe that states cannot compel artists or anyone else to express messages with which they disagree. But[...]”

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/05/opinion/303creative-first...

> Writing in the Wall Street Journal on June 20, Kaminer notes that a recent internal ACLU memo on “case-selection guidelines” explicitly says that the cases the organization takes up may be influenced by “the extent to which the speech may assist in advancing the goals of white supremacists or others whose views are contrary to our values.” As Kaminer notes, “factors like the potential effect of the speech on ‘marginalized communities’ and even on ‘the ACLU’s credibility’ could militate against taking a case.”

I very much doubt the current ACLU would entertain another Skokie case:

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