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Re:SF Mutual Fund Exec Front-Ran His Fund's Trades on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @08:41PM (#41374887)
The chief investment officer has ultimate decision making power to approve or reject trades. If he wanted his firm to invest in VMWare, it was going to happen.
Probably according to the poster herself
Re:Panic at the Job Market on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @12:31PM (#40987629)
To each their own
Re:Llama3.np: pure NumPy implementation of Llama3 on Friday May 17, 2024 @12:48AM (#40386480)
The numpy code can seem more accessible and easy to understand. Torch can look scary even though it's similar to numpy.
Seems like a good idea in theory, but wouldn't this lead to a spike in stolen devices?
Cool project.

Maybe a dumb question but what rendering method does Wprs use?

What are the needs for other sinks besides a vector database?
Trying to understand what cases we would want to use FPGAs rather than GPUs.

Memory bandwidth for FPGAs seems worse, so for serving models don't GPUs still win out?

Re:CS388: Natural Language Processing on Friday May 10, 2024 @03:34AM (#40316286)
MIT's NLP class is also good

    https://www.mit.edu/~jda/teaching/6.864/