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oh and I suppose you can back that up with verifiable facts, yes?
and that you, yourself, can stand as a sole beacon against the otherwise regularly increasing evidence and studies that both indicate toward and also prove your claims to be full of shit? you are the saviour that can help enlighten us poor unenlightened mortals?
sounds very hard. managing your calendar must be quite a skill
Hallucination rates and model quality has been going up steadily, same with multishot prompts and RAG reducing hallucination rates. These are proven scientific facts, what the fuck are you on about? Open huggingface RIGHT NOW, go to the papers section, FUCKING READ.
I've spent 6+ years of my life in compsci academia to come here and be lectured by McDonald in his fucking basement, what has my life become
ah yes, my ability to read a pdf immediately confers upon me all the resources required to engage in materially equivalent experimentation of the thing that I just read! no matter whether the publisher spent cents or billions in the execution and development of said publication, oh no! it is so completely a cost paid just once, and thereafter it's ~totally~ free!
oh, wait, hang on. no. no it's the other thing. that one where all the criticisms continue to hold! my bad, sorry for mistaking those. guess I was roleplaying a LLM for a moment there!
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.
👨🏿🦲: 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 pizzaThe 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
Good for what? Glue pizza? Unnerving/creepy pasta?
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)
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!
you have lost the game
you have been voted off the island
you are the weakest list
etc etc etc
This is the most "insufferable redditor" stereotype shit possible, and to think we're not even on Reddit
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?
fuck, there's potential here, but a bit too specific for a t-shirt?
perhaps?
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:
(so, basically, anything a competent L2 support engineer at some random ISP or whatever could do)
hit it, I'm waiting.
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.
RIP my hopes and dreams :<
also
eh. look.
I realize you'll probably receive/perceive this post negatively, ranging as anywhere from "criticism"/"extremely harsh" through ... "condemnation"?
but, nonetheless, I have a request for you
please, for the love of ${deity}, go out and meet people. get out of your niche, explore a bit. you are so damned close to stepping in the trap, and you could do not-that.
(just think! you've spent a whole 6+ years on compsci? now imagine what your next 80+ years could be!)