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Re:How We Made a Text-to-Speech Model Respond in Sub-50 ms on Friday August 21, 2026 @04:36PM (#49393464)
Isn't ChatGPT benchmaxxing, then ? Responding "hmm…" isn't actually responding and latency should time to first relevant phoneme.
Re:DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp on Friday August 21, 2026 @03:18PM (#49392684)
I have zero interest in world knowledge for my LLMs but this got me wondering : are there RAGs for that kind of data ? How could a LLM like DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp accurately answer you question with an indexed database of labeled landmark pictures (or even 3D models ?).
Re:Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose on Sunday August 16, 2026 @04:21PM (#49323292)
Indeed ! LLM are creative writers, not journalists. Relying on overfitting for factual accuracy in not tenable. I don't understand why grounded RAG with judges in not the norm.
Re:How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026 on Thursday August 06, 2026 @08:50AM (#49195950)
You understand that drones are used for precision strikes instead of indiscriminate bombing, right ? It's the opposite of "sponsoring a genocide" (if there actually ever was one happening…)
Everything is food and air. There is no such thing a "human labor" without food and air to sustain it. I'm not sure what your point is.
Re:You have been mislead about lightbulbs on Friday July 31, 2026 @07:01PM (#49129482)
BTW, I don't understand why having the driver converting AC to DC inside the LED spots is the default. For a new house, it seems to make sense to me to have at least one external driver for a ceiling of spots, if not one per floor (not one for the whole house because pf the drop in voltage). But 24V led spots seem much less common and I cannot find many reviews. Any idea why it's not more common ? It seems efficiency and thermals would be much easier to optimize without the size constraint, plus economy of scale with components. Any specific 24V led spots / bulbs to recommend ?
I presume this works (will work) also for JupyterLite that is based on Pyodide ? Would be great if it helped getting the latest OpenCV-python version [0] and it's dnn goodies being available on a zero-install client side Notebook !

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48421858

OpenCV being in the list of Pyodide modules [0] was the biggest boon for my online teaching experience because remotely dealing with install woes (corporate proxies & cie) was a show stopper for regular Python. I'm hoping that they will package this new version and that it will bring the new neural networks engines goodies to the no-install crowd !

[0] https://pyodide.org/en/latest/usage/packages-in-pyodide.html

Nice ! My most pressing request for VSS would be efficient binary vectors : is this on the table ?
Re:New Huawei 96GB GPU on Saturday August 30, 2025 @07:38PM (#45078979)
Only those who don't care/know about prompt processing speed are buying Macs for LLM inference.
Re:DHH: The Framework Desktop is a beast on Saturday August 09, 2025 @05:40PM (#44850527)
For LLM inference, I don't think the PCIe bandwidth matters much and a GPU could improve greatly the prompt processing speed.
Re:DHH: The Framework Desktop is a beast on Saturday August 09, 2025 @05:24PM (#44850380)
Indeed, recent Flash Attention is a pain point for non CUDA.
Re:Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big on Friday August 08, 2025 @02:11AM (#44834003)
The idea is presumably that you would "sell" at an artificially low price.
> The Soviets had the […]first woman,[…]

That is quite the claim !

You forgot the "/s", or do you actually believe that it's capitalism's fault is a mother taking care of her children is "unpaid labor" ?
"is hard" ≠ "sucks"
Re:A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code on Friday May 09, 2025 @09:28AM (#43936490)
Most interesting ! Would you mind sharing the prompt and the resulting CLAUDE.md file ?

Thx !

Re:Apple M3 Ultra on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @08:19PM (#43275058)
IMO, it would be more interesting to have a 3-way comparison of price/performance between DeepSeek 671b running on :

1. M3 Ultra 512 2. AMD Epyc (which Gen ? AVX512 and DDR5 might make a difference in both performance and cost , Gen 4 or Gen 5 have 8 or 9 t/s https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/discussions/11733 ) 2. AMD Epyc + 4090 or 5090 running KTransformers (over 10 t/s decode ? https://github.com/kvcache-ai/ktransformers/blob/main/doc/en...)

Re:Understanding Reasoning LLMs on Friday February 07, 2025 @09:42AM (#42973109)
DeepSeek is not a model.Which model did you use (v3 ? R1 ? a distillation ?) at which quantization ?
Nice ! Is it possible to connect to an in browser DB like WASM DuckDB https://duckdb.org/docs/api/wasm/overview.html or https://github.com/babycommando/entity-db ?

That would be most useful imho !

Re:California Fire Facts on Monday January 13, 2025 @11:25AM (#42685165)
It seems that this aims to refutes claims for inaction with facts about spending money. However, the high speed rail project or homelessness management seem to show that in California, $$$ spent doesn't always imply that the problem is actually tackled in a meaningful way.
Re:Saffron, a Precious Import, Became an American Cash Crop on Saturday January 04, 2025 @05:57AM (#42593964)
How do we know that this extension can be trusted ?
«Unfortunately, I have only seen 3 models, 3B or over, handle RAG.»

I would love to know which are these 3 models, especially if they can perform grounded RAG. If you have models (and their grounded RAG prompt formats) to share, I'm very interested !

Thx.

Re:Static search trees: 40x faster than binary search on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @06:42PM (#42570246)
Just played a bit with it. Were you working with ASCII ? This example didn't work for you ? https://github.com/jfalcou/eve/blob/a141ba93048bb2916c2157a9...
Re:Interesting Interview with DeepSeek's CEO on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @08:34PM (#42563256)
Counterpoint : your message is not synthetic data and will contribute to lots of LLMs saying the same. Many such cases ?

(It seems to me obvious that a fgrep would sanitize synthetic data obtained from competitors.)

Re:Interesting Interview with DeepSeek's CEO on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @08:24PM (#42563207)
DeepSeek v3 can run on CPU & RAM :

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1hqidbs/deepsee...

Epyc Gen4 and 12 memory channels of DDR5 @4800 should give you 7 to 9 t/s.

Re:Static search trees: 40x faster than binary search on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @08:15PM (#42563172)
I don't think that Python would be the right language for such low-level performance maxxing endeavor. I would have picked C++ but t was eye opening for me to see how rust enabled such low level optimization, so I'm grateful for the choice.
Re:Static search trees: 40x faster than binary search on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @08:13PM (#42563161)
Amazingly thorough ! I love how the author leaves no stone unturned. I had no idea you could do the kind of low level efficiency shaving in Rust. I wonder how a C++ implementation with https://github.com/jfalcou/eve would compare.
Re: on Friday December 27, 2024 @11:49AM (#42523695)
Most interesting ! Amazing job at optimizing various parts of the task. It seems that being an MoE with 'only' 37B active params per token would put it within the reach of CPU & RAM inference for the lucky hobbyist with an Epyc homelab and 8 or 16 memory channels on a second hand single or dual Gen2 mobo (around $2500 used). Any idea of how hard it would be (will?) support the new architecture for llama.cpp ?

I must confess that my interest in LLMs is grounded RAG as I consider any intrinsic knowledge of the LLL to be unreliable overfitting. Is DeepkSeek able to perform grounded RAG like Command R and Nous-Hermes 3 for instance ?

Thx for this amazing model and all the insights in your report !

Re:$2 H100s: How the GPU Rental Bubble Burst on Friday October 11, 2024 @08:32AM (#41808906)
For training, doesn't checkpoint saving make high reliability a moot point ? Why pay for 99.99999? uptime when you can restart your training from last/best model ?

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