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Re: on Saturday October 31, 2026 @02:43AM (#50313792)
This. Kagi is awesome
Re:Eye of Sauron: Long-Range Hidden Spy Camera Detection on Saturday October 10, 2026 @04:17AM (#50030824)
Something like this seems to be more practical? https://www.crowdsupply.com/scale-rf/quadrf
Look into all-smi https://github.com/lablup/all-smi It supports all GPUs thinkable including Apple Silicon and many AI accelerator cards.
Re:How Attention Sinks Keep Language Models Stable on Friday August 08, 2025 @12:50PM (#44839154)
Yeah, attention sinks were applied to gpt-oss
Re:TinyZero on Saturday January 25, 2025 @03:35AM (#42820379)
Ah sorry, you might be right. I meant "sparse reward" as a reward system that is mostly 0 but occasionally 1. Your "sparse reward" means only providing reward at the end of each output.
Re:TinyZero on Saturday January 25, 2025 @03:24AM (#42820331)
I don't think it's only using sparse rewards because of the format rewards. The training recipe is pretty comprehensive and involves multiple stages.[1] The paper mentions that when only using the RL technique, the output is often not suitable for reading. (Language mixing, etc) That feels like a AlphaZero moment for LLMs?

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1i8rujw/notes_o...

Re:TinyZero on Saturday January 25, 2025 @02:43AM (#42820198)
So to my understanding, this work reproduces DeepSeek R1's reinforcement learning mechanism in a very small language model.

The AI gets "rewards" (like points) for doing two things correctly:

Accuracy : Getting the right answer. For example, math answers must be in a specific format (e.g., inside a box) so a computer can easily check them. For coding problems, test cases verify if the code works.

Format : Using the <think> and <answer> tags properly. This forces the AI to organize its responses clearly.

So in this case, the training program can extract the model's answer by parsing <answer> tag. We can eval the answer and evaluate if it's correct or not. If it's correct give reward, else: no reward.

Create N such answers from a single question, create N reward array. This is enough for the RL algorithm to guide the model to be more smart.

Change the currency to USD
Re:The Copper Plate Must Die on Friday November 29, 2024 @04:25AM (#42272491)
What are the compute requirements for solving efficient energy grid transmission? Is there a efficient algorithm that is able to solve this?
Re:Introducing The Model Context Protocol on Monday November 25, 2024 @09:36PM (#42242085)
Is there any plans to add Well-known URI[1] as a standard? It would be awesome if we can add services just by inputting domain names of the services.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well-known_URI

Re:Show HN: Pocache, preemptive optimistic caching for Go on Friday October 11, 2024 @11:51AM (#41810573)
PSA: You can also use singleflight[1] to solve the problem. This prevents the thundering herd problem. Pocache is an interesting/alternative way to solve thundering herd indeed!

[1]: https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/sync/singleflight

Re:GPUs Go Brrr on Monday May 13, 2024 @08:56AM (#40342795)
Actually, llama.cpp running on Apple silicon uses GPU(Metal Compute Shader) to inference LLM models. Token generation is also very memory bandwidth bottlenecked. On high end Apple silicon it's about 400MB/s to 800MB/s, comparable to NVIDIA RTX 4090, which has memory bandwidth of 1000MB/s. Not to mention that Apple silicon has unified memory architecture and has high memory models (128GB, up to 192GB), which is necessary to run large LLMs like Llama 3 70B, which roughly takes 40~75GB of RAM to work reasonably.
Re:GPUs Go Brrr on Monday May 13, 2024 @06:12AM (#40341505)
Well, iPhone already does that with photos. :)
Now we just need VkDNN
Interesting! Maybe using small cells like these might make the frame and cell blend together?

https://a.aliexpress.com/_oDCStIL

Re:OpenLLaMA: An Open Reproduction of LLaMA on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @04:38AM (#35799660)
No since it’s stateful in the sense that inferencing is dependent on the past generated tokens.

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