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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (13 children)

ah yes, my ability to read a pdf immediately confers upon me all the resources required to engage in materially equivalent experimentation of the thing that I just read! no matter whether the publisher spent cents or billions in the execution and development of said publication, oh no! it is so completely a cost paid just once, and thereafter it's ~totally~ free!

oh, wait, hang on. no. no it's the other thing. that one where all the criticisms continue to hold! my bad, sorry for mistaking those. guess I was roleplaying a LLM for a moment there!

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (12 children)

You can experiment on your own GPU by running the tests using a variety of models of different generations (LLAMA 2 class 7B, LLAMA 3 class 7B, Gemma, Granite, Qwen, etc...)

Even the lowest end desktop hardware can run atleast 4B models. The only real difficulty is scripting the test system, but the papers are usually helpful with describing their test methodology.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (6 children)

You can experiment on your own GPU

you have lost the game

you have been voted off the island

you are the weakest list

etc etc etc

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This is the most "insufferable redditor" stereotype shit possible, and to think we're not even on Reddit

[–] [email protected] 7 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

nah, the most insufferable Reddit shit was when you decided Lemmy doesn’t want to learn because somebody called you out on the confident bullshit you’re making up on the spot

like LLM like shithead though am I right?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

like LLM like shithead

fuck, there's potential here, but a bit too specific for a t-shirt?

like llm like idiot

perhaps?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

a'ight, sure bub, let's play

tell me what hw spec I need to deploy some kind of interactive user-facing prompt system backed by whatever favourite LLM/transformer-model you want to pick. idgaf if it's llama or qwen or some shit you've got brewing in your back shed - if it's on huggingface, fair game. here's the baselines:

  • expected response latencies: human, or better
  • expected topical coherence: mid-support capability or above
  • expected correctness: at worst "I misunderstood $x" in the sense of "whoops, sorry, I thought you were asking about ${foo} but I answered about ${bar}"; i.e. actual, contextual, concrete contextual understanding

(so, basically, anything a competent L2 support engineer at some random ISP or whatever could do)

hit it, I'm waiting.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

you'll be waiting a while. it turns out "i'm not saying it's always programming.dev, but" was already in my previous ban reasons, and it was this time too.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 23 hours ago

RIP my hopes and dreams :<

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