Perplexity (an “AI search engine” company with 500 million in funding) can’t bypass cloudflare’s anti-bot checks. For each search Perplexity scrapes the top results and summarizes them for the user. Cloudflare intentionally blocks perplexity’s scrapers because they ignore robots.txt and mimic real users to get around cloudflare’s blocking features. Perplexity argues that their scraping is acceptable because it’s user initiated.

Personally I think cloudflare is in the right here. The scraped sites get 0 revenue from Perplexity searches (unless the user decides to go through the sources section and click the links) and Perplexity’s scraping is unnecessarily traffic intensive since they don’t cache the scraped data.

pip cache is another common culprit, I’ve seen up to 50GB

The bench numbers seem about right for 200GB/s bandwidth. The prefill speeds are really impressive for an SBC though.

It also sets context length to 2k by default iirc, which breaks a lot of tasks, and gives a general bad first impression to users who are likely using local models for the first time.

Could say the same for borh

It’s not stolen valor either because they have none

They’ve been saying this for the last 2 years

The statement says clinical evidence shows that once a patient has declined in motor skills and language functions by a certain amount, the drug is no longer a benefit in slowing the progression of the disease.

Sounds reasonable

Non-healing consumables are always either so strong they’re required to finish the game (Terraria) or so weak that they may as well be a placebo (Cyberpunk).

I’m not a fan of the British empire and all that they’ve done, but I still appreciate their ceremonial role.

They get a new feature to boast about

Just buying things my childhood self would have been jealous of.

2 Liters of Chapman’s Premium™ Strawberry Shortcake ice cream.

“Free market” fans when free market

The speed of many machine learning models is bound by the speed of the memory they’re loaded on so that’s probably the biggest one.

Senators don’t have that kind of power. The constitution’s fatal flaw is that it designates the legislative branch to make the laws and the judicial to interpret them, but left both reliant on the executive branch the enforce them. He could certainly try to bring Garcia back but without the executive branch on his side he’d likely get stuck there himself.

Exchange has always been done with IOUs. Even when bartering was the meta they still exchanged promissory notes for larger scale transactions where they didn’t have the goods on hand.

Rather than CPUs I think these are a much bigger deal for GPUs where memory is much more expensive. I can get 128GB of ram for 300CAD, the same amount in vram would be several grand.

You’re licking the boots of a company that uses the work of others without compensation or credit then sells it back to you at a premium. This is the exact behavior the GPL license aimed to prevent. I have nothing against the technology if it’s made with permission and benefits the people it depends on, but that’s clearly not the case here.

Ludites are an apt comparison. The Luddites fought to protect their industry from industrialists who aimed to replace them with cheap, low skilled and child labour. The goal of AI isn’t advancement it’s replacement, and most of the companies pushing it are transparent about that.

You can’t believe everything you read in the globe and mail

You can’t larp about using opensource software while creating memes using closed source garbage.