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With around 4.6 GiB model size the new Qwen3-8B quantized to 4-bit should fit comfortably in 16 GiB of memory: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-4bit
Re:DeepSeek-R1 with Dynamic 1.58-bit Quantization on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @05:51AM (#42850956)
You likely mean sampler, not decoder. And no, the stronger the quantization, the more the output token probabilities diverge from the non-quantized model. With a sampler you can't recover any meaningful accuracy. If you force the sampler to select tokens that won't repeat, you're just trading repetitive gibberish for non-repetitive gibberish.
Looks awesome! The YouTube video linked inside the GitHub README seems to be unavailable: https://youtu.be/zm0XbLmXtXY Would love to see an up-to-date demo video.
Re:Show HN: Ultra-Realistic Generative Fill with AI and 3D on Thursday September 28, 2023 @05:23PM (#37696086)
Amazing! The inserted objects are renders of textured 3D models and not generated by a diffusion model + ControlNet? Is there a fixed set of textured 3D models available or are they generated on the fly based on the prompt?
Re:LLM self-play on 20 Questions on Saturday April 01, 2023 @03:38PM (#35403381)
Re:Jaccard Index on Sunday March 19, 2023 @10:07PM (#35226391)
Super interesting! I’m currently writing my master thesis on analyzing relationships between subreddits based on user and semantic similarity. For user similarity I use the Jaccard similarity between the unique set of authors of each subreddit.

Can I send you a message and quote you in my thesis? You can shoot me a short message as well: [email protected]

Re:ChatGPT passes MBA exam given by a Wharton professor on Monday January 23, 2023 @09:07PM (#34498165)
Still questions that I would assume are semantically similar to the questions you can find in exam prep material all over the internet. My point is that exams are a crutch we use to determine how well a person studied a subject. A crutch we use because we seem to lack better measuring devices. It's very much possible to ace an exam while at the same time being horrible at actually applying/working on a subject. I'd argue therefore that measuring how well LLMs perform on exams designed for humans is simply a more complicated Turing test, with all its shortcomings.
Re:ChatGPT passes MBA exam given by a Wharton professor on Monday January 23, 2023 @08:39PM (#34497923)
Do you know that the answer key wasn't part of the train set of ChatGPT?
Re:Demystifying Apache Arrow on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @02:10PM (#34329884)
Thanks! Just stumbled across your comment as well.
Re:Demystifying Apache Arrow on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @02:05PM (#34329804)
I recently looked into this as well. Specifically how the two formats differ. As it stands right now the “Feather” file format seems to be a synonym for the Arrow IPC file format or “Arrow files” [0]. There should be basically no overhead while reading into the arrow memory format [1]. Parquet files on the other hand are stored in a different format and therefore occur some overhead while reading into memory but offer more advanced mechanism for on disk encoding and compression [1].

As far as I can tell the main trade-off seems to be around deserialization overhead vs on disk file size. If anyone has more information or experience with the topic I'd love to hear!

[0] https://arrow.apache.org/faq/#what-about-the-feather-file-fo... [1] https://arrow.apache.org/faq/#what-is-the-difference-between...

EDIT:

More information: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34324649

That's impressive. The audio track of your videos is so clean and well understandable that I was wondering if you used a studio setup or voice synthesis software. Well done!
Ah, thanks! I didn’t know that and shouldn’t have used the first result that came up with a google search.
Yes, it's easy to see you put a lot of thought into that. I hope your course receives much more exposure. When I first found your videos a few weeks ago, I was surprised how few views they have given to the quality of the course.

Do you record the voice track of your videos yourself?

Glad to see you published the final lesson about transformers. Was looking forward to that!

I love your course for being very comprehensive and technical while not getting lost in mundane details. Like the opposite of the following quote:

“I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.” [1]

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/21422-i-didn-t-have-time-to...

Re:Fast transformer inference with Metal Performance Shaders on Thursday November 24, 2022 @06:23PM (#33737336)
Seems like the Apple M1 Max is almost half as fast as a RTX 3090. Pretty cool!
Re:We Should Have Markdown Rendered Websites on Thursday November 10, 2022 @11:30AM (#33548938)
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Re:Command-line data analytics made easy on Thursday November 03, 2022 @09:53AM (#33450975)
As shown in the first example you can pipe data into clickhouse-local: https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/operations/utilities/clickhou...
I read it as 1/2 cent as in 1 or 2 cent per render.
Austria—Schnitzel not kangaroo.
Re:Supabase-JS v2 on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @07:48PM (#32490568)
Why not create a table with a single JSON column and dump everything in there?
Re:Show HN: Distributed SQLite on FoundationDB on Sunday July 31, 2022 @10:11AM (#32295589)
Does this work similar to rqlite or dqlite from a usage standpoint, or does it solve a different use case?

Show HN: Interactive 3D Visualization of the Shared Mobility Traffic in Berlin

https://www.lau-rei.de/proj/berlin-shared-mobility-map/

Hello HN!Over the last year, I crawled and stored the position of all available bicycles of a large shared mobility provider in Berlin, Germany once a minute (~2.1 billion data points). Subsequently, I calculated 713,562 trip routes as they were likely taken by customers of the provider. The web app linked above provides more background information and visualizes some patterns I find...

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That's great to hear. I'd love to create some vector tiles with building and building height data on zoom levels down to 11. Is this the correct place to perform this change? https://github.com/onthegomap/flatmap/blob/e402a3333bc5127e5...

Or could I even achieve this via the config file? https://github.com/onthegomap/flatmap/blob/main/config-examp...

Fantastic work! Are the vector tiles compatible with OpenMapTiles styles?
Re:Show HN: QEMU front end for M1 and Intel Macs on Friday February 26, 2021 @05:57AM (#26273508)
Awesome! Thanks.
Re:Google admits Kubernetes container tech is too complex on Friday February 26, 2021 @05:54AM (#26273488)
Any best guesses if and when we'll reach the "Kubernetes: The Good Parts" stage? A condensed subset of the currently available features of k8s which would prevent most of the foot guns and make k8s feasible for <20 developer projects.
Re:Show HN: QEMU front end for M1 and Intel Macs on Thursday February 25, 2021 @08:08AM (#26262326)
Seems to support QXL graphics driver and SPICE? I ran into problems compiling QEMU on macOS with the above mentioned. Did you solve this?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59636198/how-to-compile-...

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