FrankLaskey

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so fun in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

That’s ~~deregulation~~ capitalism for ya.

Fixed it for you.

OpenWebUI Release v0.6.0 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Looks like it now has Docling Content Extraction Support for RAG. Has anyone used Docling much?

Consumer GPUs to run LLMs in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Oh and I typically get 16-20 tok/s running a 32b model on Ollama using Open WebUI. Also I have experienced issues with 4-bit quantization for the K/V cache on some models myself so just FYI

Consumer GPUs to run LLMs in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It really depends on how you quantize the model and the K/V cache as well. This is a useful calculator. https://smcleod.net/vram-estimator/ I can comfortably fit most 32b models quantized to 4-bit (usually KVM or IQ4XS) on my 3090’s 24 GB of VRAM with a reasonable context size. If you’re going to be needing a much larger context window to input large documents etc then you’d need to go smaller with the model size (14b, 27b etc) or get a multi GPU set up or something with unified memory and a lot of ram (like the Mac Minis others are mentioning).

A cool guide to the minimum wage by state in the USA (source: reddit) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

It would be more interesting to see this with a cost of living figure for each state as well.

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Become an Anarchist or Forever Hold Your Peace (crimethinc.com)
Perplexity open sources R1 1776, a version of the DeepSeek R1 model that CEO Aravind Srinivas says has been “post-trained to remove the China censorship”. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

I think we can all agree that modifications to these models which remove censorship and propaganda on behalf of one particular country or party is valuable for the sake of accuracy and impartiality, but reading some of the example responses for the new model I honestly find myself wondering if they haven’t gone a bit further than that by replacing some of the old non-responses and positive portrayals of China and the CPC with a highly critical perspective typified by western governments which are hostile to China (in particular the US). Even the name of the model certainly doesn’t make it sound like neutrality and accuracy is their primary aim here.

Linux's Sole Wireless/WiFi Driver Maintainer Is Stepping Down - Phoronix in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (25 children)

I used to daily drive Ubuntu some years ago for work/personal use but have been back on Win 10 primarily for the last 4-5 years. I was considering trying to go back due to how much Windows sucks (despite some proprietary software only being available on it) but remembering the trouble I had with some networking/printer drivers and troubleshooting those issues and then seeing this article Is definitely making me reconsider..

🎵 🎶 🎵 in c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Is this what the Leonard Cohen song is about?

Are there communities to post videos of police brutality / excessive use of force? in c/[email protected]
YSK there's a tool to check US non-profit compensation in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

It would be cool if they would provide some useful statistics about the aggregated data as well. Maybe something like showing the percentile for pay to the ED/CEO or for the total compensation compared to other organizations in the sector.

I didn’t scour the site so maybe this does exist.

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The Tech to Build the Holodeck [Gaussian Splatting] (www.theverge.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/24963389

Gaussian splatting, a new way of capturing 3D content, is taking the AR / VR industry by storm — and could one day allow anyone to create photorealistic 3D worlds.

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The Tech to Build the Holodeck [Gaussian Splatting] (www.theverge.com)
 

Gaussian splatting, a new way of capturing 3D content, is taking the AR / VR industry by storm — and could one day allow anyone to create photorealistic 3D worlds.

Chinese TikTok alternative RedNote could pose greater security risks, experts say in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (19 children)

The US government’s position on this can be summed up as “massive unaccountable US tech firms having all of your data and manipulating public opinion via their black box algorithms is okay, but Chinese companies doing that is a national security concern”. I call BS. The degree to which China is actually a US adversary is being massively overstated by the US government as they see this as a threat to US geopolitical hegemony and America’s ability to propagandize its own citizens. I have spent some time on RedNote (Xiaohongshu) and all I have seen is friendly cross-cultural exchange and discussion between these supposed ‘adversaries’.

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Bioshock creator Ken Levine discusses the future of narratives in games (www.gamesindustry.biz)
 

In an interview with gamesindustry.biz, the acclaimed developer also discusses his next game, ‘Judas’, generative AI and why it "wasn't easy to step away from BioShock"

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In praise of mixing coffee beans (lemmy.ml)
 

I have been discovering the joy of mixing different types of whole bean coffees before preparing them in my French press. I find that as long as you don’t do something crazy like mix a very light roast with a very dark roast you can end up with a lot of extra depth and roundness to the flavor. Thoughts? Am I insane? A heretic??? Have you tried it?

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Images blurry / low res (lemmy.ml)
 

In the last day or so I have noticed that images on nearly all posts appear to be low resolution / blurry. Anyone else experiencing this? I am on version 2.18.4 iOS 17.6.1 iPhone 13 Pro.

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How do Graphics Cards Work? Exploring GPU Architecture - YouTube by Branch Education (28:29 minutes) from Oct 19, 2024 (youtu.be)
 

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/16899034

Invidious, an alternative YouTube client in the browser without using YouTube directly (more private): https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=h9Z4oGN89MU

I recommend watching or listen this video at x1.4 playback speed. If you can't set the speed to this value, then at least watch at x1.25.

Description:

Graphics Cards can run some of the most incredible video games, but how many calculations do they perform every single second? Well, some of the most advanced graphics perform 36 Trillion calculations or more every single second. But how can a single device manage these tens of trillions of calculations? In this video, we explore the architecture inside the 3090 graphics card and the GA102 GPU chip architecture.

Note: We chose to feature the 30 series of GPUs because, to create accurate 3D models, we had to tear down a 3090 GPU rather destructively. We typically select a slightly older model because we're able to find broken components on eBay. If you're wondering, the 4090 can perform 82.58 trillion calculations a second, and then we're sure the 5090 will be even more.

Table of Contents:

00:00 - How many calculations do Graphics Cards Perform?
02:15 - The Difference between GPUs and CPUs?
04:56 - GPU GA102 Architecture
06:59 - GPU GA102 Manufacturing
08:48 - CUDA Core Design
11:09 - Graphics Cards Components
12:04 - Graphics Memory GDDR6X GDDR7
15:11 - All about Micron
16:51 - Single Instruction Multiple Data Architecture
17:49 - Why GPUs run Video Game Graphics, Object Transformations
20:53 - Thread Architecture
23:31 - Help Branch Education Out!
24:29 - Bitcoin Mining
26:50 - Tensor Cores
27:58 - Outro
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[Epic Games] Alan Wake 2 | ($24.99 / 50% off) (store.epicgames.com)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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All-time low

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[Steam] Resident Evil 4 (2023) | ($16.79 / 58% off) (www.fanatical.com)
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Aurora CO police under fire for sending recruitment team to Trump rally (sentinelcolorado.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20948276

Archived at https://ghostarchive.org/archive/ln4rX

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Boebert finishes fifth in straw poll of new district (thehill.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11339586

Boebert finishes fifth in straw poll of new district

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) came in fifth place in a straw poll of voters in the district where the controversial congresswoman recently relocated and is trying to win reelection to the House.

Boebert, who was first elected to represent Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District in 2020, announced last month she would switch districts and instead run for reelection this year in the 4th District, after its House member, Rep. Ken Buck (R), decided to retire from Congress.

The new district for Boebert would likely give her a significantly better chance at reelection if she wins the Republican nomination. She currently represents a swing district, and Boebert had seemed likely before her switch to face off a second time against Democrat Adam Frisch, whom she defeated in 2022 by fewer than 600 votes.

The 4th District, meanwhile, is a solidly Republican district that has elected a Democratic House member only once in the past 50 years.

But the results of the straw poll Thursday, which followed the first debate among GOP candidates running for that district, indicates Boebert may have an uphill battle.

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Palworld Xbox and Steam parity "at the mercy of certification", developer says (www.eurogamer.net)
 

Apparently, this also explains feature differences between the Xbox and Steam versions on PC, Including why the PC game pass version of the game does not yet have DLSS support.

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