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[–] vivendi@programming.dev -4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 3 weeks 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

[–] vivendi@programming.dev -3 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

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

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 3 weeks ago

RIP my hopes and dreams :<

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