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fernand.pajot.net 1y ago

LLM Demand Is Currently Inelastic

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fernand.pajot.net 1y ago

LLM-Centric Software Paradigms

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www.lesswrong.com 3y ago

SolidGoldMagikarp (Plus, Prompt Generation)

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github.com 4y ago

OpenFold, trainable Pytorch port of AlphaFold 2

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www.youtube.com 5y ago

Visual C++ 1.0 Launch event

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arstechnica.com 6y ago

After 10 years, the “Fenn treasure” has finally been found

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twitter.com 6y ago

Imperial College Covid-19 simulation code open sourced

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www.theverge.com 6y ago

AOC and Ted Cruz call out Apple for dropping Hong Kong app in joint letter

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twitter.com 7y ago

US Commerce Dept. proposes vast new export control restrictions on AI

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medium.com 7y ago

Homelessness Spending Comparison for SF, NY, and LA

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arstechnica.com 7y ago

Password breach teaches Reddit that, yes, phone-based 2FA is that bad

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medium.com 8y ago

Human Values: A Quick Primer

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arstechnica.com 8y ago

PC vendors scramble as Intel announces vulnerability in firmware

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upspin.io 9y ago

Upspin: A framework for naming everyone's everything

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www.theoutgroup.org 9y ago

Visualizing Political Polarization on Twitter

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www.terrapattern.com 10y ago

Terrapattern: a visual search tool for satellite imagery

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karthkk.wordpress.com 10y ago

Deep learning solution for the Netflix prize

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irakorshunova.github.io 10y ago

Diagnosing Heart Diseases with Deep Neural Networks

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blog.ava.me 10y ago

A Manifesto for Total Accessibility

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www.nature.com 10y ago

Nature is adopting an open review model

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www.herecomestheairplane.co 11y ago

Here Comes the Airplane

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sifter.org 11y ago

Cheap, Deep Learning with Fusion Reflection

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web.media.mit.edu 11y ago

Marvin Minsky on programming and sloppily-formulated ideas

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epigram.me 11y ago

1989

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www.quorumlanguage.com 11y ago

Quorum, an evidence-oriented programming language

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dealbook.nytimes.com 11y ago

Change.org Raises $25M from Bill Gates, Sam Altman, Evan Williams, Jerry Yang

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alarmingdevelopment.org 11y ago

Two-way Dataflow: Subtext screencast

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ventrellathing.wordpress.com 11y ago

The Case for Slow Programming

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www.infognition.com 11y ago

From native code to browser: Flash, Haxe, Dart or asm.js?

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www.wired.com 11y ago

A Day with Project Ara, Google's Modular Phone

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It takes a while to take down job posts. Everyone likely learned the decision recently. I don’t think the employees who are going to be laid off care about updating the job posts at the moment…

I found the world and exploration very fun, but the “platforming” challenges were extremely frustrating for me, and I didn’t enjoy the random messages and the miscellaneous details that you translated. Basically the gameplay loop was filled with things that didn’t quite ring with me, even though the overarching design and story were compelling.

There is a difference. We train with large batch sizes these days. The ANE silicon size is tiny and can't do the large matrix multiplications for big LLMs with or without a batch size higher than 1. Meaning that it cannot saturate the RAM bandwidth and that you're better using off the much bigger GPU on the Apple die.

Yes, you are correct in that the ANE does have the equivalent of tensor cores and that I didn’t mention that. I just don’t expect it to be usable beyond inference because the number of compute units will not work for batches in medium/large/huge networks. That’s obviously by design! The ANE silicon size is tiny compared to the GPU area. I wouldn’t be actually surprised if Apple strategically only invests in using their GPU for LLM (1B+ params) work.

Note that if you are currently using CoreML for LLMs all the work is done in the GPU.

The neural engine has severe limitations at the moment. I tried using it for BERT about a year ago and kept crashing its API because of "out of memory" issues. The theoretical TOPs you mention also don't necessarily translate into usable TOPs because of memory bandwidth and caches. This is why for example the comparison of the M1 Max with a RTX 3090 was completely off.

The memory bandwidth is still a bit lower than Nvidia's best cards, and it doesn't have the equivalent of Tensor Cores. If they wanted they could compete, but it's clearly not their desire. They build consumer end products.