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[–] vivendi@programming.dev -4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 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.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

👨🏿‍🦲: how many billions of models are you on

🗿: like, maybe 3, or 4 right now my dude

👨🏿‍🦲: you are like a little baby

👨🏿‍🦲: watch this

glue pizza

[–] vivendi@programming.dev -3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

The most recent Qwen model supposedly works really well for cases like that, but this one I haven't tested for myself and I'm going based on what some dude on reddit tested

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Good for what? Glue pizza? Unnerving/creepy pasta?

[–] vivendi@programming.dev -5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Not making these famous logical errors

For example, how many Rs are in Strawberry? Or shit like that

(Although that one is a bad example because token based models will fundamentally make such mistakes. There is a new technique that lets LLMs process byte level information that fixes it, however)

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 2 days ago

oh, I get it, you personally choose not to make these structurally-repeatable-by-foundation errors? you personally choose to be a Unique And Correct Snowflake?

wow shit damn, I sure want to read your eventual uni paper, see what kind of distinctly novel insight you've had to wrangle this domain!

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 2 days ago (1 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 -4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] self@awful.systems 7 points 2 days 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?

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

like LLM like shithead

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

like llm like idiot

perhaps?

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 2 days 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 2 days 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 2 days ago

RIP my hopes and dreams :<