Tag: llm
Public whispers tagged llm
Text Highlight2026-08-12 13:35:25
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"capable of recalling and reasoning over fine-grained information"
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Recalling fine-grained stuff is cool, but I'd rather see it not hallucinate the details first.
Text Highlight2026-08-12 13:26:25
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"capable of recalling and reasoning over fine-grained information"
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10M tokens is wild, but can it actually find that one specific line in a 500-page PDF?
Text Highlight2026-08-12 10:32:25
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"next generation of highly compute-efficient multimodal models"
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Still waiting for the open source model that does this without breaking the bank.
Text Highlight2026-08-12 10:23:25
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"next generation of highly compute-efficient multimodal models"
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Million token context is wild, finally can throw whole codebases at it.
Text Highlight2026-08-11 18:38:31
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"QLoRA backprop"
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My 48GB card finally feels useful for something other than gaming.
Text Highlight2026-08-10 14:32:38
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"a herd of language models that natively support multilingua"
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multilinguality is cool but tool usage is where it's really at
Text Highlight2026-08-10 14:23:38
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"a herd of language models that natively support multilingua"
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405B params is insane, wonder how much compute that took
Text Highlight2026-08-10 14:14:38
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"a herd of language models that natively support multilingua"
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finally a model that actually gets multiple languages without breaking a sweat
Text Highlight2026-08-01 03:09:18
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"standard interface for models, embeddings, vector stores, and more."
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Thats the core value prop right there, a standard interface for everything LLM.
Text Highlight2026-07-28 16:29:34
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"reduce the training time"
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Finally a normalization that works for RNNs without all that batch size fuss.
Text Highlight2026-07-28 13:17:34
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"batch norma"
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So layer norm is basically batch norm but for single examples, makes sense for RNNs.
Text Highlight2026-07-28 10:23:34
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"normalize the activities of the neurons"
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tried it on my lstm and yeah, training felt way smoother
Text Highlight2026-07-28 10:19:28
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"The main bottleneck for training very large neural network models is the intense demand for a large amount of GPU memory"
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Yep, my last model OOM'd even after offloading to CPU. Brutal.
Text Highlight2026-07-28 10:11:53
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"A typical generative task is as follows. At each step, a datapoint is sampled from the dataset, and part of the data is removed, and the model must infer the removed part."
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That's how they train those language models? Seems almost too simple to work that well.
Text Highlight2026-07-28 10:10:28
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"The main bottleneck for training very large neural network models is the intense demand for a large amount of GPU memory"
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Couldn't afford those GPUs anyway, so I just rent and pray.
Text Highlight2026-07-28 10:02:53
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"A typical generative task is as follows. At each step, a datapoint is sampled from the dataset, and part of the data is removed, and the model must infer the removed part."
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So it's basically like playing a game of peek-a-boo with data, hiding a piece and making the model guess.
Text Highlight2026-07-28 10:01:28
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"The main bottleneck for training very large neural network models is the intense demand for a large amount of GPU memory"
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True, but the real pain is the optimizer states, they quietly eat everything.
Text Highlight2026-07-27 13:04:16
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"excellent few-shot learners with task-specific exemplars"
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Makes me wonder if all those fancy few-shot prompts were just overkill the whole time.
Text Highlight2026-07-27 13:01:28
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"Large language models (LLMs), currently their most advanced form as of 2026, are predominantly based on transformers"
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n-grams were simpler, but you can't argue with scale
Text Highlight2026-07-27 12:55:16
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"excellent few-shot learners with task-specific exemplars"
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It's funny how we always assumed they needed examples, but just saying 'think step by step' does the trick.