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Is there scope to implement ternary models using this approach to minimise die area of the model parameters?
Re:Everything we announced at our first-ever LlamaCon on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @03:34PM (#43837015)
How did you find ModernBERT performance Vs prior BERT models?
Re:BitNet b1.58 2B4T Technical Report on Thursday April 17, 2025 @07:10AM (#43715180)
You can try out the model in a demo they have setup: https://bitnet-demo.azurewebsites.net/
Re:BERTs Are Generative In-Context Learners on Thursday November 14, 2024 @07:35AM (#42135608)
My understanding is that BERT can still outperform LLMs for sentiment classification?
Re:Nvidia Conquers Latest AI Tests on Thursday June 13, 2024 @11:48AM (#40671099)
These are MLPerf training results. I think current ternary quantization research is focused more on speeding up inference?
We were also allowed to borrow and re-shrinkwrap games at the Game store I worked in, in the UK, in 2000. Seemed like official company policy to give us better product knowledge!
Re:My Favorite Statistical Measure: Hoeffding's D on Thursday February 22, 2024 @07:25AM (#39466101)
What a clear explanation of what correlation actually is!
In the UK the tax incentives for Electric cars may be skewing demand towards new Vs secondhand EVs.

I can lease a new EV via my employer's salary sacrifice scheme. I can pay my lease payments from my pre-tax income. There is an additional tax due on cars leased this way in the UK called Benefit-in-Kind tax (BIK). The rate of this tax is fairly high for petrol/diesel cars but for EVs is currently near zero (based on 2% of the car's value).

The problem is that most of the major lease firms that operate these programs for employers only offer new vehicles. Ideally I would like a nearly-new EV. I have escalated and apparently our lease provider (Tusker) are looking at rolling this out in the first half of this year. I currently know of only one other lease firm that offers this option. I suspect is in the interest of lease firms to prop up the value of the used EV market, but this depends also on their margins on new vehicles. I wonder if it would make sense for the tax incentives for used Vs new EVs to be rejigged to avoid incentivising unnecessary new car production?

Re:The origins of the Guinness stout yeast on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @04:27PM (#39019390)
Not tested. No issues at all with bread.

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