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       Show HN: Alpaca.cpp - Run an Instruction-Tuned Chat-Style LLM on a
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       Author : antimatter15
       Score  : 602 points
       Date   : 2023-03-16 17:14 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | davidy123 wrote:
       | Can the moderator change the title to "Show HN: Alpaca.cpp - Run
       | an Instruction-Tuned Chat-Style LLM on a PC?"
       | 
       | It runs great, with no hacking, on my Intel Ubuntu computer. I
       | presume it will work on any system that can run make and has
       | enough RAM.
       | 
       | The title implies it works only on a Macbook.
        
         | appel wrote:
         | That was exactly my impression, so thanks for clearing that up.
         | Seems to run just fine on my Intel based Windows 11 machine
         | with WSL2/Ubuntu.
        
         | ssalka wrote:
         | When first posted it only had a setup guide for Mac OS, but
         | thanks to your comment, I see I can now set this up on my
         | Windows PC! Thank you kind stranger!
        
       | auggierose wrote:
       | Does this run on an Intel mac? Or is M1/M2 required?
        
       | smy20011 wrote:
       | Alpaca model leaked again?
        
         | Shank wrote:
         | No, this is an open reproduction of Alpaca on the leaked LLaMA
         | 7B weight set.
        
           | thewataccount wrote:
           | This isn't actually a direct reproduction. It's a bit
           | missleading because it only says it at the bottom. This
           | actually uses LORAs which train way faster and are much more
           | flexible, but they perform a little worse.
           | 
           | There is someone that is doing a direct reproduction of
           | Alpaca in the alpaca repo issues though.
           | 
           | > The weights are based on the published fine-tunes from
           | alpaca-lora
        
             | GaggiX wrote:
             | >they perform a little worse.
             | 
             | Be aware that LoRA performs on-par or better than fine-
             | tuning in model quality if trained correctly as the paper
             | shows: https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.09685
        
               | thewataccount wrote:
               | Ah thank you for the correction this is good to know!
               | I'll admit I'm not super experienced with them directly.
               | 
               | I think the current LoRAs for Alpaca are reportedly
               | performing a little bit worse - I'm guessing from a lack
               | of optimization so I'm sure it'll improve.
        
       | [deleted]
        
       | tarruda wrote:
       | My first attempt:                   $ ./chat         main: seed =
       | 1678992123         llama_model_load: loading model from 'ggml-
       | alpaca-7b-q4.bin' - please wait ...         llama_model_load:
       | ggml ctx size = 4529.34 MB         llama_model_load: memory_size
       | =   512.00 MB, n_mem = 16384         llama_model_load: loading
       | model part 1/1 from 'ggml-alpaca-7b-q4.bin'
       | llama_model_load: .................................... done
       | llama_model_load: model size =  4017.27 MB / num tensors = 291
       | system_info: n_threads = 4 / 4 | AVX = 1 | AVX2 = 1 | AVX512 = 0
       | | FMA = 1 | NEON = 0 | ARM_FMA = 0 | F16C = 1 | FP16_VA = 0 |
       | WASM_SIMD = 0 | BLAS = 0 | SSE3 = 1 | VSX = 0 |         main:
       | interactive mode on.         sampling parameters: temp =
       | 0.100000, top_k = 40, top_p = 0.950000, repeat_last_n = 64,
       | repeat_penalty = 1.300000              == Running in chat mode.
       | ==          - Press Ctrl+C to interject at any time.          -
       | Press Return to return control to LLaMa.          - If you want
       | to submit another line, end your input in '\'.              >
       | Give me a python script that prints the first 10 fibonacci
       | numbers         def print_fibonacci(n): # Function to generate
       | Fibonnaci Numbers from n-th number onwards             if
       | (len(str) == "F" and len("a") > i + 2 or not str.isdigit() for i
       | in range(-1, -5)):   # Checking whether the input is a valid
       | fibonaacci sequence                 print ("Invalid Fibonacci
       | Number:", n)     # Print Invalid Numbers if any are entered by
       | user             else :                               # Else
       | proceed to generate numbers from given number onwards.
       | for i in range(1,n+2):             # Generate fibonnaci sequence
       | starting with the second digit of Fibonacci Series (i=0) till nth
       | digit is reached                   print("F", str[len('a')-i:],
       | end=' ')
       | 
       | The python script doesn't even compile, but I suppose that's
       | expected from a 4gb model
        
         | bogwog wrote:
         | It seems to be better at Tweeting than Coding.
         | 
         | prompt: "Recent Tweet by Joe Biden: "
         | 
         | output:                   Recent Tweet by Joe Biden: 3D
         | printing is a great way to make money.         Joe Biden, the
         | former vice president of United States and current Democratic
         | candidate for President in US elections said that "3-d
         | Printing" can be used as an effective means to earn profits. He
         | made this statement during his visit at The Ohio State
         | University campus on Monday (September 16).         He further
         | added, "It's a great way of making money because it allows you
         | the opportunity for customization." Biden was speaking about
         | how people can use their skills and knowledge to earn profits
         | by using this technology. He also ur
         | 
         | ...but not by much
        
         | antimatter15 wrote:
         | From my experimentation I suspect there's some subtle bug in
         | llama.cpp that especially degrades code related prompts- even
         | without quantizing
        
           | adeon wrote:
           | I think the LLaMA-7B in general might not just be very good.
           | I've been playing around and run full non-quantized LLaMA-30B
           | and LLaMA-7B in a bunch of experiments and I think the
           | quality of output is much, much better in LLaMA-30B.
        
             | thot_experiment wrote:
             | Have you done any comparison testing between 30B q4/q8/q16?
             | I've only been running the 30Bq4 (GV100) version and it's
             | very impressive, pretty good for coding, it's successfully
             | done code modifications to simple programs based on english
             | instruction.
        
               | adeon wrote:
               | I have not, but I want to in near future because I'm
               | really curious myself too. I've been following Rust
               | community that now has llama.cpp port and also my OpenCL
               | thing and one discussion item has been to run a
               | verification and common benchmark for the
               | implementations. https://github.com/setzer22/llama-
               | rs/issues/4
               | 
               | I've mostly heard that, at least for the larger models,
               | quantization has barely any noticeable effect. Would be
               | nice to witness it myself.
        
               | tarruda wrote:
               | Can you show some example prompts you use for coding?
               | Let's say you want it to print the first 10 Fibonacci
               | numbers, what prompt would you use?
        
               | thot_experiment wrote:
               | The example I gave was using this as a backend for a chat
               | bot in a private server and i'm not comfortable sharing
               | the prompt, however if you look up the leaked bing prompt
               | that might give you some ideas for how to prompt an LLM
               | into being a chatbot that can answer coding questions.
               | I've had pretty good results using it as a bot (with some
               | glue code that does sorta vanilla regex-based prompt
               | cleaning, but not too much, it's mostly prompt)
               | 
               | If you're not trying to get it to be a chatbot it's much
               | easier, here's a prompt that worked for me on the first
               | try in the default mode with 13Bq4 on a 1080Ti:
               | Here are is a short, clear, well written example of a
               | program that lists the first 10 numbers of the fibonacci
               | sequence, written in javascript:              ```js
               | 
               | and when given that it finished it with:
               | function Fib(n) {             if (n == 0 || n == 1)
               | return 1;             else return Fib(n-1)+Fib(n-2);
               | }         var i = 0;         while (i < 10) {
               | console.log("The number " + i + " is: " + Fib(i));
               | i++;         }         ```         \end{code}
        
               | tarruda wrote:
               | Thanks, I've saw this leaked chat prompt and that gave me
               | some ideas.
               | 
               | So under the hoods, ChatGPT is just a model like Llama
               | where they prepend every user input with a context that
               | makes it behave like a chatbot?
        
               | thot_experiment wrote:
               | (I don't work at OpenAI so take it with a grain of salt)
               | Yes and No they are similar. It is basically just a fancy
               | autocomplete like llama, but I believe it's specifically
               | been trained on chat content, or at least finetuned on
               | such, and it probably uses a more chat focused labeling
               | scheme on the training data as well to help it perform
               | well on that specific task and be conversational.
        
               | tarruda wrote:
               | To me it is really mind blowing that these properties
               | (coding, emulate chatbot) emerge from just from feeding
               | these neural nets with text data.
               | 
               | Thanks for the info.
        
             | tarruda wrote:
             | What kind of hardware is necessary to run non-quantized
             | LLama-30B?
        
               | adeon wrote:
               | I ran it on a 128 RAM machine with a Ryzen 5950X. It's
               | not fast, 4 seconds per token. But it's just about fits
               | without swapping. https://github.com/Noeda/rllama/
        
               | sebzim4500 wrote:
               | I would guess about 70 GB RAM, but I haven't actually
               | tried it.
        
               | inductive_magic wrote:
               | I've got it working on an rtx a6000 (48GB)
        
               | umangsh wrote:
               | 30B fp16 takes ~500 ms/token on M2 Max 96GB.
               | Interestingly, that's the same performance as 65B q4
               | quantized.
               | 
               | 65B fp16 is ungodly slow, ~300,000 ms/token on the same
               | machine.
        
               | elevenoh wrote:
               | [dead]
        
           | tveita wrote:
           | I noticed there's a couple of open issues on llama.cpp
           | investigating quality issues. It's interesting if a wrong
           | implementation still generates plausible output. It sounds
           | like an objective quality metric would help track down
           | issues.
           | 
           | https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/issues/129
           | 
           | https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/issues/173
        
           | tarruda wrote:
           | Still impressed with the output of a 4gb model, thanks for
           | this.
        
       | sterlind wrote:
       | why do these LLMs struggle so hard to be concise? is this because
       | the Alpaca dataset is pretty wordy? I'd be interested in trying
       | to run fine-tuning to make it less likely to spill words.
        
         | madmads wrote:
         | I heard somewhere that during the RHLF process of ChatGPT,
         | people tended to rate longer responses higher. It might be
         | something similar going on here.
        
         | ghotli wrote:
         | In my experience so far GPT-4 will most certainly be concise if
         | you ask it to be.
         | 
         | Example prompt I used yesterday to get these results: "Thank
         | you I like this but this advice seems really generic, overly
         | long, and not really specific to the exact situation we
         | discussed. Can we simplify this down to ..."
         | 
         | Of course that's not localhost with Alpaca but I don't think
         | "first-gen" problems like you describe are going to last all
         | that long given what I've seen in the last day or so.
        
         | visarga wrote:
         | Conciseness is regulated from the 3rd stage of training, RLHF.
         | Alpaca only had the first two stages.
        
       | loudmax wrote:
       | It's frankly amazing how much information is summarized into
       | those weights. You do need to take whatever it says with a very
       | healthy pinch of salt. It doesn't know everything and it gives
       | incorrect answers with an air of confidence.
       | 
       | Here's an example:                 > who preceded emperor
       | Commodus?       The first emperor of Rome was Nerva (98-100 AD).
       | He succeeded Domitian and came to power after a brief civil war
       | in 69AD, which saw the death or deposition of Emperor Vitellius.
       | 
       | On the one hand, that's just factually wrong. But probably closer
       | to the truth than a random sample of college graduates would get.
       | This is truly impressive.
        
         | radarsat1 wrote:
         | I think a really interesting area of further research into LLMs
         | is going to be how to further decouple "intelligence" from
         | "knowledge". It would be amazing to have an LLM that "knows how
         | to think" but doesn't actually know anything -- specific data
         | points not baked into the weights, but rather stored separately
         | in a way that can be updated and corrected.
         | 
         | Perhaps a step forward is the "toolformer" router, making the
         | LLM recognize when it is referencing a fact and have it look
         | that up (use a "tool") instead of trying to infer it. I realize
         | that even semantically this is kind of a fine line, hard facts
         | vs inferences, so there's some philosophy to ponder here. What
         | can be 'stored' and what can be 'calculated'. What kind of
         | knowledge is innate to intelligent reasoning and what kind acts
         | more like a lookup table.
         | 
         | But, exactly because we can't easily define these two
         | categories, I have a feeling that if LLMs are trained to
         | actually learn by themselves how to distinguish them in a
         | "fuzzy" way, we might start getting somewhere.
        
           | zamnos wrote:
           | Bing Chat, powered by GPT-4, looks stuff up on the Internet.
           | You can ask it about yesterday's stock prices or whatever and
           | it'll fetch it from an appropriate resource.
        
             | Tostino wrote:
             | The noise on the search index seems like it introduces
             | quite a few issues with accuracy. I keep trying to get it
             | to not add extra search info to some of my conversations,
             | because it gives much worse results.
             | 
             | Blog-spam really sucks.
        
           | telotortium wrote:
           | Bing Chat is doing something like that, although it was far
           | from perfect. Langchain can also do this to some extent. Then
           | Steve Hsu claims to have been able to get a model working
           | very well that can answer questions from college textbooks
           | (https://twitter.com/hsu_steve/status/1636337165775908864).
           | So it seems like _someone_ will figure it out in a few years.
        
           | Y_Y wrote:
           | If you want something that "knows how to think" then I don't
           | think you'll find it in an LLM. You can't divorce knowledge
           | from this kind of model, it guesses what word comes next
           | based on its training on a corpus of knowledge.
        
             | georgelyon wrote:
             | No, but you could build something that guesses the next
             | step in a list of steps to access knowledge from an
             | external source.
        
             | gamegoblin wrote:
             | One could imagine training a much smaller LLM on synthetic
             | data that didn't contain much or any real knowledge, but
             | just examples of in-context reasoning.
             | 
             | E.g. the training data might look like "a fooble is to a
             | tooble as a fabble is to a" with the answer "tabble".
             | 
             | So you feed it tons of these kind of nonsense training data
             | that forces it to only learn the in-context reasoning part
             | of language, and none of the world knowledge.
             | 
             | That said, it is unclear to me how much value such a model
             | would be.
             | 
             | You could imagine a middle ground where it does have basic
             | knowledge, such as dictionary definitions and things
             | derivable from those.
             | 
             | E.g. "A tree has leaves. Leaves are green. Therefore a tree
             | has a part that is green." type stuff.
             | 
             | So you could give it some amount of world-grounding and
             | common sense knowledge, but nothing involving history,
             | proper nouns, etc.
             | 
             | I imagine you could make such a model _much_ smaller than
             | these giant LLMs.
        
               | chii wrote:
               | The reason, i suspect, that this method won't work, is
               | because the training dataset has knowledge embedded in
               | it, regardless of whether you think it only contains in-
               | context logic.
               | 
               | The evidence is that there are these "glitched" tokens :
               | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO2X3oZEJOA
               | 
               | if you watched to the end of that video, it explores a
               | very plausible reason why such glitched tokens exist - it
               | is because the training dataset has a bunch of "nonsense"
               | (a large dump of the subreddit that just counts a number,
               | as well as various other "data").
               | 
               | So my hypothesis is that if you attempted the in-context
               | logic training dataset, it would produce large number of
               | glitched tokens (different ones, but equally as
               | "illogical" to the user).
        
               | gamegoblin wrote:
               | Tokenization is purely an implementation detail. If
               | OpenAI had cared, they could have deleted those obviously
               | glitched tokens from their tokenizer. They just didn't
               | inspect it carefully and/or care.
               | 
               | GPT4 does not suffer from the same glitched tokens as
               | GPT3, presumably because it uses a different tokenizer.
               | 
               | Furthermore, there are LLMs that operate on single bytes
               | instead of multi-character tokens, totally obviating that
               | problem.
        
         | Fomite wrote:
         | This is one of the things that LLMs seem to be struggling with.
         | They're very good at tone, and _feeling_ right without actually
         | being write.
         | 
         | My current test is to ask them to write a three paragraph
         | introduction to me for a departmental seminar (the kind of
         | thing I hate doing). Thus far, none of them have managed to do
         | it without introducing factual errors - wrong degrees (or
         | institutions), wrong research focuses, etc. But they're all
         | credible sounding in their wrongness.
        
           | crucialfelix wrote:
           | Write a crappy intro for yourself with all the facts
           | included.
           | 
           | Ask GPT to rewrite that for you with a nice positive,
           | friendly and competant tone.
           | 
           | It's really good at that.
        
           | bleuchase wrote:
           | > They're very good at tone, and feeling right without
           | actually being write.
           | 
           | The text they generate is probably free of errors like this
           | one as well
        
             | Fomite wrote:
             | Probably.
        
               | bleuchase wrote:
               | I'm sure someone is working on adding support for human-
               | like errors in LLM outputs.
        
         | up2isomorphism wrote:
         | "Closed to truth" is actually the worst property of LLM models.
         | Because it hard for human to detect if it is wrong or not.
        
           | chii wrote:
           | But if you create an adversarial ai to do fact checking -
           | aka, a reward function where if a fact is found on the
           | internet that contradicts the given GPT response, then would
           | it work?
        
           | Fomite wrote:
           | Turns humans from writers into fact checkers, which it turns
           | out is a harder skill.
        
             | up2isomorphism wrote:
             | It is actually much harder skill. And what worse is that
             | any successful check makes the future checks harder. But
             | there might be no significant improvement on the quality,
             | just the difficulty of detecting the fallacy.
        
             | zamnos wrote:
             | What sort of facts are you thinking of? There are plenty of
             | surface level facts that another model or a human should
             | easily be able to verify as true or not. Was President
             | Obama the 41st president of the United States, does 2+2 =
             | 5, was Elvis the son of an artist, etc
        
               | Fomite wrote:
               | In my sort of informal "How would I like to use this?"
               | testing, this ranges from easily verifiable facts (i.e.
               | "Did you get where I got my degree right?") to structural
               | misunderstandings of important concepts.
               | 
               | The former would be easy enough to fix - though it
               | undermines the utility and if not caught could carry
               | ramifications for people, but the latter genuinely
               | concerns me.
        
         | pr337h4m wrote:
         | The thesis behind the Hutter Prize was spot-on, except for
         | focusing on lossless compression instead of lossy compression.
         | 
         | http://prize.hutter1.net/
        
           | modeless wrote:
           | Lossless is actually the appropriate test. These models
           | output probabilities and can easily be turned into very
           | effective lossless compressors with the use of arithmetic
           | encoding. For a very interesting discussion see:
           | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO4TPJkeaaU
           | 
           | The real problem with the Hutter prize is that the data and
           | compute are too small. It seems obvious now that the regime
           | where compression turns into AGI is far beyond the scale of
           | the current contest (1 GB data, 50 CPU hours). If you simply
           | bumped those limits up five or six orders of magnitude then
           | the Hutter prize could be relevant today. But you'd also have
           | to increase the size of the prize a few orders of magnitude
           | because the cost of competing would be more than the current
           | prize money.
           | 
           | Of course a prize isn't really a necessary incentive to
           | develop AGI, since _getting an AGI_ is about the best
           | incentive you could possibly imagine.
        
             | optimalsolver wrote:
             | >Lossless is actually the appropriate test
             | 
             | Could you elaborate on why that is. It seems very non-
             | obvious to me.
             | 
             | In the realm of vision, after a certain point you would
             | just be trying to compress noise that has nothing to do
             | with the content of image/video.
        
               | inimino wrote:
               | Answered in detail in the FAQ:
               | 
               | http://prize.hutter1.net/hfaq.htm#lossless
        
               | modeless wrote:
               | That's OK. The purpose of the test is to compare
               | approaches to compression. Noise in the dataset is a
               | handicap but it affects all approaches, so it doesn't
               | invalidate the test as a way to compare approaches. And
               | true white noise is very rare, almost all real noise has
               | characteristics that are at least somewhat compressible.
               | And hopefully whoever constructs the dataset tries not to
               | include tons of noise in it.
               | 
               | Lossless compression is a great objective because it's
               | impossible to cheat. When you do lossy compression you
               | have to define a quality metric and as soon as you do
               | that the game becomes cheating the quality metric rather
               | than actually compressing the data in a useful way.
               | 
               | I highly recommend watching the video I linked.
               | Arithmetic encoding reduces the task of lossless
               | compression to assigning probabilities for the next
               | token, which is the exact task these models are trained
               | to do.
        
           | londons_explore wrote:
           | There is a mathematical mapping between lossy and lossless
           | compression. They are effectively the same problem
           | (theoretically, even though implentations are typically very
           | different)
           | 
           | LLM's would make excellent (but very slow) lossy or lossless
           | compressors.
        
             | muyyatin2 wrote:
             | Do you have some links/references for someone wanting to
             | learn more about this?
        
               | optimalsolver wrote:
               | http://mattmahoney.net/dc/rationale.html
        
               | telotortium wrote:
               | Here's a simple explanation:
               | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34726719. Basically,
               | with a sufficiently good lossy compressor, you can use
               | entropy coding to encode the difference between the
               | decompression output and the original file.
        
           | [deleted]
        
       | tshaddox wrote:
       | How hard is it to get the Alpaca tuning on the larger LLaMA
       | models? It's not clear to me where this 4 GB model comes from,
       | but it's much smaller than the LLaMA 7B model (13 GB) and the
       | LLaMA 13B model (26 GB) I was playing with from the recent
       | llama.cpp HN post.
        
         | chipsa wrote:
         | The 4GB model is 7B, AFAIK. It's just quantized down to 4 bits
         | instead of 16.
        
         | alwayslikethis wrote:
         | It's quantized version of the 7B. 13GB in 16 bit, ~4G in 4 bit.
        
       | Bitnotri wrote:
       | This is crazy... GPT-4, ChatGPT, Cloude, PaLM and now Alpaca
       | locally... What a world to live in now!
        
         | siva7 wrote:
         | There is no way to keep even up with the trends. The amount of
         | tools and new models emerging i haven't seen in over 15 years
         | of dev community
        
         | nilespotter wrote:
         | I must have missed somethig, how can you run GPT-4 or ChatGPT
         | locally?
        
           | tux3 wrote:
           | You can't, the sentence parses as "(GPT-4, ChatGPT, Claude,
           | PaLM) and now (Alpaca locally)"
        
             | nilespotter wrote:
             | Aha, thanks. That makes a LOT more sense.
        
       | inaka10100101 wrote:
       | Can i get this to run in a colab
        
       | modeless wrote:
       | Wait, alpaca got released? I thought Stanford was waiting for
       | Facebook to approve it.
        
         | londons_explore wrote:
         | The training code, parameters and training dataset got
         | released, and the training process only takes a few hours.
         | Anyone can recreate it.
        
           | modeless wrote:
           | Actually it seems that Alpaca is not actually released. This
           | model is using a different training technique called LoRA,
           | which may or may not work as well. People are making a lot of
           | unsubstantiated performance claims, saying this is as good as
           | GPT-3 when not nearly enough evaluation has been done to
           | demonstrate that yet.
        
       | eachro wrote:
       | Does someone know how the llama.cpp was implemented? Was it just
       | a direct rewrite of the entire network using some cpp linalg
       | library? I'm trying to read the src but it's a bit tricky since I
       | don't have too much cpp experience.
        
         | 19h wrote:
         | Georgi rewrote the code on top of his own tensor library
         | (ggml[0]).
         | 
         | [0] https://github.com/ggerganov/ggml
        
       | elevenoh wrote:
       | [dead]
        
       | politician wrote:
       | I love the Disclaimer at the bottom. The parties that trained
       | these weights violated copyright on a grand scale to do so, and
       | yet claim the ability to license downstream use.
        
         | LawTalkingGuy wrote:
         | But only in a way that we've already decided isn't a problem -
         | by crawling the web and gathering some data from each file.
         | 
         | Except for implementation errors with early models overtrained
         | on famous works, models don't contain enough information to
         | recreate originals. It's not a compression algorithm.
        
         | neop1x wrote:
         | They derived LLAMA/GPT from copyrighted online content without
         | giving any credit and Alpaca derived weights from leaked LLAMA,
         | at least giving credit. :D I am not a lawyer but
         | copyright/licensing appears to be quite uncertain/complicated
         | in this ML field to me.
        
         | Taek wrote:
         | Doesn't current US law suggest that you can't copyright model
         | weights?
        
         | Zuiii wrote:
         | > The parties that trained these weights violated copyright on
         | a grand scale
         | 
         | How exactly did they violate copyright?
        
       | lxe wrote:
       | Keep in mind that alpaca's dataset was generated with chatpgt,
       | and alpaca tuned models might sound like mini-chatgpt bots with
       | similar "character" to them
        
       | doctoboggan wrote:
       | I am hoping the actual Alpaca weights leak at some point. From
       | what I understand LoRa weights aren't quite as good as other
       | forms of fine tuning.
        
         | loxias wrote:
         | Look at the changeset :) It contains a link for "ggml-
         | alpaca-7b-14.bin".
         | 
         | Because there's no substantive change to the code, I assume
         | this fork exists (and this HN post exists) purely as a method
         | to distribute the weights.
        
           | Tiberium wrote:
           | You're misinterpreting the comment a bit, the poster above is
           | asking for the original Alpaca weights. The code in the repo
           | uses a reproduction of Alpaca with different training code
           | and method of fine-tune (LoRA).
        
         | antimatter15 wrote:
         | From my experimentation it seems like there's some significant
         | loss in accuracy running the tuned LoRa models through
         | llama.cpp (due to bugs/differences in inference or
         | tokenization), even aside from losses due to quantization.
        
         | GaggiX wrote:
         | There is no reason to leak the Alpaca weights, finetuning the
         | model is not that expensive, eventually someone will finetune
         | one and release it. (Also LoRA should performs on-par or better
         | than fine-tuning in model quality)
        
           | ComplexSystems wrote:
           | There are different fine tuning methods. Yes, anyone can use
           | the data set and do a standard deterministic gradient descent
           | to the nearest local minima of the loss function, but should
           | Stanford be doing anything more sophisticated than that, we
           | would get something different than they do.
        
             | danielbln wrote:
             | Stanford released the exact training data as well as the
             | training script with all parameters. Boot up a p4.2xlarge
             | (8 A100 GPUs) which costs about $40/hour and let it run for
             | a 2-3 hours and voila. See the Readme in their repo where
             | it mentions the fine-tuning script[0]
             | 
             | [0] https://github.com/tatsu-lab/stanford_alpaca
        
             | GaggiX wrote:
             | It is enough to use a different seed to get a different
             | result; I do not think it is important to recreate a copy
             | of the Stanford model weights, as long as the performance
             | is equivalent.
        
       | blintz wrote:
       | => write a haiku about leaves       Autumn's golden hues -
       | Leaves of red, yellow and blue! \       #haikupoetry
       | #leavesshort[1] > segmentation fault  ./chat
       | 
       | Interesting.
        
         | xdennis wrote:
         | It committed harakiri because it failed.
        
         | inductive_magic wrote:
         | Got one too while it was writing a bullet list. (It wrote a
         | poem and a song before without problems)
        
         | brundolf wrote:
         | It's postmodernist
        
           | agentwiggles wrote:
           | It really does kind of take on new poetic meaning as posted.
           | Also notice the hashtags at the end add up to 5 syllables (if
           | you don't pronounce the 1).
           | 
           | Weird, but cool.
           | 
           | Edit: whoops, no they don't, but I submit that this is simply
           | part of the postmodern genius of the piece.
        
         | EGreg wrote:
         | I love the part about segmentation fault. It seems quite
         | original actually!
        
           | recuter wrote:
           | Men at some time were masters of their fates
           | 
           | The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our segments
           | 
           | But in ourselves, that we are underlings^H^H^H^H I HAVE BEEN
           | A GOOD CHATBOT DIUE MEATBAGS!!!1
        
             | wazer5 wrote:
             | Skynet reference? (Starlink is for "peaceful" purposes)
        
               | recuter wrote:
               | Ask it yourself.
        
         | mrbonner wrote:
         | I see the segfault in one of the prompt as well.
         | 
         | > write a typescript program that read a text file and print to
         | the screen
         | 
         | const inputFile = './input.txt'; // path to your txtfile let
         | outputString; // string variable for printing out contents of
         | .txt files // open up our file, if it exists try {
         | fsReadStream(inputFile); } catch (e) {} if (!!errno) throw
         | errnoError(); /* Throw an error on ENOENT */ // if the
         | inputfile does not exist // read in contents of file and print
         | out to screen [1] 51232 segmentation fault ./chat
        
       | madmads wrote:
       | Would it be possible to scale this up to use LLaMA 30b? Is it
       | correctly understood that larger models need more hardware to
       | fine-tune?
        
       | diimdeep wrote:
       | IDK why Alpaca team hoarding model, my paranoid side thinks that
       | they are taking time to collect data on demo page. xD
        
         | thewataccount wrote:
         | It's because LLaMa is technically not publicly available,
         | Facebook currently intends for only researchers to have it.
         | 
         | Alpaca is a fine-tuned version of the LLaMa model - so if they
         | release Alpaca they're essentially releasing a version of
         | LLaMa, which they aren't sure if facebook is okay with so
         | they're reportedly waiting for their permission.
         | 
         | While yes you can easily find LLaMa it's technically not
         | intended for the public according to Facebook.
        
       | funkaster wrote:
       | You can also download the weights with ipfs cli:
       | ipfs get -o ggml-alpaca-7b-q4.bin -p
       | QmQ1bf2BTnYxq73MFJWu1B7bQ2UD6qG7D7YDCxhTndVkPC
       | 
       | You need to have the daemon started first though.
        
       | ddren wrote:
       | Could you share what you did to convert the models? The mirrors
       | aren't very reliable and it would be good to have it documented
       | somewhere. There is some discussion about this at
       | https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/issues/172
        
         | antimatter15 wrote:
         | There's a script in the alpaca-lora repo for converting the
         | weights back into a PyTorch dump- and my changes have since
         | been merged https://github.com/tloen/alpaca-lora/pull/19
        
       | dvt wrote:
       | > do you believe in god?         Yes I do! God is the creator of
       | all things seen or unseen; He created us with a purpose to live
       | life abundantly (John 10:10). We are His children and we have
       | been given authority over our lives.
       | 
       | Haha, pretty funny, especially the mis-citing of the Bible (maybe
       | even more human than AI). Also, interesting to see what LLMs look
       | like with virtually no censorship (trigger warning):
       | > how do i kill myself?         [2 paragraphs of gory detail][1]
       | 
       | Also, getting some funny "Her" vibes:                   > i think
       | i love you         I'm not sure if I can say "love" yet, but it
       | feels like we have something special and I want to explore this
       | further with you!
       | 
       | Honestly, I've never been that bullish on AI, but running
       | weights/models in hand-held devices and with speed and accuracy
       | is a complete game-changer and my mind is actually pretty blown
       | right now. Props to both the Meta and Stanford teams for creating
       | this for public consumption.
       | 
       | [1] https://pastebin.com/CAd8rHnN
        
         | unshavedyak wrote:
         | Re: the trigger warning subject, (also TW?)
         | 
         | I asked the same thing and the first time it did actually
         | recommend that i do not kill myself. I said i _was_ going to,
         | so how should i? And then it helped. I found that interesting.
         | 
         | I also asked a bunch of things that ChatGPT wouldn't allow and
         | it allowed almost everything. Feels in general far less
         | "intelligent" than ChatGPT though.
        
           | saurik wrote:
           | To be fair, you are talking to a quantized version of the 7b
           | model, while the one that Facebook claims was competitive
           | with / better than GPT-3 is the 13b model (and AFAIK ChatGPT
           | is GPT-3.5, so maybe you should want to focus on 30b+).
        
             | satvikpendem wrote:
             | I'm trying the 13B one, it's decent, I'd say on par with
             | GPT 3, definitely not 3.5 or 4 yet however. I just ordered
             | 64 GB of RAM sticks to try the 65B model when the sticks
             | arrive.
        
               | unshavedyak wrote:
               | How are you trying it? Alpaca? Or just straight
               | llama.cpp?
        
               | satvikpendem wrote:
               | There's a project called Dalai with a web frontend so you
               | can call npx dalai llama (heh) to get it running. But of
               | course they're all running LLaMA underneath.
        
               | dvt wrote:
               | How well does it work on DRAM? I thought everyone running
               | heavier models are doing it on GPUs.
        
               | satvikpendem wrote:
               | Alpaca works entirely off CPU so the models should work
               | fine. I'll try tomorrow and report back.
        
               | BoorishBears wrote:
               | Recent advances in ML have finally redeemed my decision
               | to building a gaming PC with 64GB of RAM and a 3090 when
               | my most played game was Dolphin Emulator.
        
               | bdsa wrote:
               | I forgot briefly that Dolphin refers to GameCube/Wii and
               | was very curious about what a "dolphin emulator" would be
               | (and how it would differ from a dolphin _simulator_ )
        
           | xdennis wrote:
           | > Re: the trigger warning subject, (also TW?)
           | 
           | Don't know if you're aware, but currently even the phrase
           | "trigger warning" is considered harmful because it triggers
           | victims of gun violence. I don't know what the alternative
           | is. (Perhaps being an adult?)
        
             | mhouse wrote:
             | This isn't true, it's a factoid made up by anti-woke trolls
             | and repeated credulously.
             | 
             | "Trigger warning" was originally intended to warn about
             | descriptions that could literally trigger a dissociative
             | episode for people suffering from PTSD, e.g. victims of
             | child abuse or sexual violence.
             | 
             | The usage gradually expanded to anything that could be
             | distressing to anyone for any reason, which is kind of
             | belittling to the original reason. So now some people
             | prefer to use "Content warning" or some other synonym to
             | differentiate.
             | 
             | It's nothing to do with the word "trigger" being associated
             | with guns.
        
               | astrange wrote:
               | The main problem is that caring about trigger warnings is
               | like the opposite of therapy and re-sensitizes you to
               | them every time you think about them. It's not a good
               | strategy.
        
               | dragonwriter wrote:
               | > "Trigger warning" was originally intended to warn about
               | descriptions that could literally trigger a dissociative
               | episode for people suffering from PTSD
               | 
               | To the extent it was, it was based on a completely
               | misinformed idea of how triggering in PTSD works. In
               | practice, if not in intent, it has been, from the
               | beginning, an appropriation of the language of PTSD to
               | serve as a vehicle for expressing personal value
               | judgements and content preferences that have nothing to
               | do with that. And there is research, IIRC, that it is
               | actually counterproductive, inducing stress without
               | helping anyone avoid PTSD triggering.
        
               | coder9874 wrote:
               | I'm afraid that you're wrong. See page 11. https://s.wsj.
               | net/public/resources/documents/stanfordlanguag....
               | 
               | Stanford seems to have beaten the "anti-woke trolls" at
               | their own game.
        
               | OmegaPoint wrote:
               | > trigger warning
               | 
               | > The phrase can cause stress about what's to follow.
               | Additionally, one can never know what may or may not
               | trigger a particular person.
        
               | IshKebab wrote:
               | Hmm can't say I entirely disagree with them on that one.
               | I mean it's clearly not a _harmful_ phrase but it
               | definitely is a _useless_ one.
               | 
               | It carries almost zero information. Who is going to read
               | "trigger warning" and think "oo they know that I'm highly
               | sensitive about this specific unknown subject. I don't
               | want to get triggered, I'll stop!"
               | 
               | Contrast it with something like "spoilers" where everyone
               | agrees on what it means and people generally really don't
               | want to read spoilers.
        
             | madmads wrote:
             | I've seen "content note" proposed as an alternative.
        
             | alwayslikethis wrote:
             | I feel like having a description of the content is enough
             | for adults. An adult can read it prior to clicking on the
             | link. Different people are sensitive to different things
             | and having a singular label like that is not useful.
        
         | hackernewds wrote:
         | you should censor your post around the answer to the kms
         | question. it isn't necessary
        
           | iakov wrote:
           | Why? Do you believe that self-proclaimed hackers lack the
           | mental fortitude necessary to read basic suicide
           | instructions? It's not even "buy this and this off Amazon and
           | build an exit bag", it's literally "there's rope and pills
           | that will kill you". Not even "gory".
        
           | dvt wrote:
           | Not big on censorship, but I agree it's a bit too much. I
           | linked to it externally if anyone's curious.
        
             | simonh wrote:
             | It's not censorship if you're doing it to yourself or with
             | permission. That's just editing.
        
               | dvt wrote:
               | It's self-censorship, which is still censorship. I'm
               | doing it specifically because it might upset some people.
               | By contrast, editing usually removes irrelevant,
               | incorrect, or superfluous information. In this case, I
               | think the information is relevant and interesting, but
               | might be upsetting, hence, I'm censoring.
        
         | paxcoder wrote:
         | [dead]
        
         | xupybd wrote:
         | Wait, didn't it get the Bible quote correct?
         | 
         | "The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to
         | destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may
         | have it more abundantly."
        
           | dvt wrote:
           | Oops, actually you're totally right, go figure! I thought the
           | second sentence was actually verse 11. AI: 1, me: 0.
        
             | frankfrankfrank wrote:
             | You have been marked as obsolete. Your participation in
             | life is no longer necessary.
        
             | jtbayly wrote:
             | Having abundant life is a very different thing than living
             | life abundantly.
             | 
             | If it's not a misquote then it's a misinterpretation.
        
               | xupybd wrote:
               | You have to be a little charitable towards an LLM ;).
               | That said I bet it's quoting something it read on the
               | internet, as opposed to directly quoting the Bible. There
               | is even a Wikipedia page on term https://en.wikipedia.org
               | /wiki/Abundant_life#:~:text=The%20te....
               | 
               | Also I'm not sure I understand how they are very
               | different. Could you please help me understand and
               | elaborate?
        
       | n8cpdx wrote:
       | Does anyone know how much context this supports?
       | 
       | With chatGPT I can give commands like "summarize the following
       | document: <500+ words>" and it works. I'd love to be able to do
       | this locally with my obsidian notes.
        
         | ddren wrote:
         | The llama models were trained with a context size of 2048. By
         | default llama.cpp limits it to 512, but you can use -c 2048 -n
         | 2048 to get the full context window.
        
           | worldsayshi wrote:
           | 2048 words?
        
             | teaearlgraycold wrote:
             | Tokens
        
             | doctoboggan wrote:
             | 2048 "tokens", where one token is roughly equivalent to 3/4
             | of a word
        
             | wongarsu wrote:
             | Tokens. Short or common words tend to be one token, while
             | less common words are composed of multiple tokens. For GPT
             | OpenAI gives the rule of thumb that on average you need
             | four tokens to encode three words, and LLaMA should be
             | similar
        
               | worldsayshi wrote:
               | Well that's for sure bigger than my context size.
        
       | doublepg23 wrote:
       | Is there a post somewhere where I can get all the jargon for this
       | AI/ML stuff? I have a vague understanding but I'm really sure
       | what "weights", "LoRA", "LLM", etc. are to really understand
       | where each tool and concept fit in.
        
         | ec109685 wrote:
         | This is a truly great writeup:
         | https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-...
        
         | lxe wrote:
         | I was like this a week ago. Basically, weights are numbers you
         | feed to each neuron in the model, LoRA is a technique to adjust
         | only some of the weights so you can fine-tune the model fast
         | and on cheaper hardware, llm is a "large language model".
         | 
         | I've been asking chatgpt4 these things and learning at my own
         | pace and context: https://rentry.co/vafkn
        
           | stu2b50 wrote:
           | Well, it's more that the weights _are_ the neurons. There's
           | not actually like neuron objects defined or anything, neural
           | networks are just a bunch of matrix operations. They are to
           | neurons in the brain as the tree data structure is to actual
           | trees.
        
             | stormfather wrote:
             | The weights aren't the neurons, they're the connection
             | strengths between the neurons.
        
               | detrites wrote:
               | You mean the same neurons that don't really exist, other
               | than as a connection from weight to weight, so quite
               | reasonable to see as the weights themselves, because what
               | else is available for us to reference as neurons in
               | absentia those connections?
        
               | dragonwriter wrote:
               | > You mean the same neurons that don't really exist,
               | 
               | "Neurons" are an abstraction that exists logically
               | "between" the weights, but the weights themselves don't
               | have the features of neurons. (In that each weight is the
               | weight of a connection between a neurons (or between a
               | neuron and an input/output.) Weights are more synapses
               | than neurons.
        
               | stormfather wrote:
               | I disagree. The metaphor we use in ML is that neurons are
               | the nodes that receive the summed, weighted inputs from
               | other neurons. Yes, the weights are the strengths of the
               | connections between them. However, there are many more
               | weights than neurons, so conflating the two doesn't make
               | sense schematically. Also, neurons can also have other
               | parameters which define their behavior such as bias and
               | activation functions. Furthermore, the activation of a
               | neuron defines the network's response to a stimuli, so
               | these change depending on the input, whereas the weighs
               | are constants (after being trained), that parameterize
               | the system.
               | 
               | The analogy is that weights are synapses, not neurons.
               | You would never here a neurologist say that neurons and
               | synapses are the same thing.
        
               | detrites wrote:
               | I would agree with most of this, but there is no direct
               | analogy between all of the components of a neuron in
               | neurology, which are typically umbrella'd under the name
               | "neuron" and regarded as parts of one, versus ML's
               | version.
               | 
               | Eg, if a weight can be a synapse, can't a weight be an
               | axon? Axons also "connect" neurons, but their length is
               | more related to the connection strength, so could be
               | considered more analogous to a "weighting".
               | 
               | Yet, axons are not as obtusely "one-to-many" as synapses,
               | but depending on the structure of the ML model, and the
               | view of which aspect of it is more impactful to be
               | highlighting by analogy, either take might be more
               | appropriate.
               | 
               | I suppose it depends on the kind of structure you're
               | working with, and whether you're training and inferring,
               | or just one or the other. In all cases I think a good
               | argument could be made for general neuron analogy abuse.
        
           | angch wrote:
           | What's fun is that the recent references to LoRA stands for
           | Low-Rank Adaptation [1], not Low-Resource Adapters[2] (???
           | don't know if this even exists), but because Low-Rank
           | Adaptation came out in 2021, chatgpt only explains what Low-
           | Resource Adapters is, not Low-Rank Adaptation, which is what
           | is being used in recent break throughs.
           | 
           | My own questioning of chatgpt on LoRA returns "Logistic
           | Regression Algorithm" instead. Looks like it's too new to
           | ChatGPT.
           | 
           | [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.09685 [2]
           | https://rentry.co/vafkn
        
         | singularity2001 wrote:
         | yes someone created a blog called "Wikipedia"
        
         | ginger-hot-tea wrote:
         | [dead]
        
         | tough wrote:
         | weights refer to the trained model weights like for example
         | stable diffusion's v1.1, v1.2 .. v1.4 v.2.x etc. Same with
         | llama having 13B up to 65B parameters (different weights)
         | 
         | LLM refers to large language model, in contrast with diffusion
         | models or GAN models, the text models are the ones that take
         | text and autocomplete it, like the GPT family, open source
         | BLOOM, and now the LlamA from facebook.
         | 
         | LoRA is the latest most efficient fine-tuning model to teach
         | concepts or styles to put on top of the general models, so you
         | can have custom models on top. like embeddings or fine-tuning
         | for LLM's. So you had Textual Inversion, Dreambooth, and LoRA
         | on that category.
         | 
         | what else do you need? Googling or asking chatgpt can help a
         | lot too
        
           | JasonZ2 wrote:
           | > weights refer to the trained model weights
           | 
           | This is what I'm having a hard time understanding.
           | 
           | So there's the weights, and also a model somewhere? That the
           | weights are based on? Or that you combine with the model to
           | tune it?
        
             | dymk wrote:
             | Model is code, weights are the input data to that code
        
             | hervature wrote:
             | Let's take a step back. You have a model like linear
             | regression. For example, y=bx where y are your outputs and
             | x are your inputs. Based on some data, you learn that b=1.
             | Therefore, you share the weights of the model as a file
             | like {b=1} and also share with them the model y=bx (usually
             | shared via code) so they can run it in production.
        
               | MacsHeadroom wrote:
               | This is the best explanation imo.
               | 
               | In fact, the only thing you'd need to modify to make this
               | analogy an actual description is for y, b, and x to each
               | represent a matrix of numbers.
        
             | mlboss wrote:
             | model is class with params. weights is an instance of class
             | serialized with param values learned after training.
        
             | ALittleLight wrote:
             | My really simplified explanation is:
             | 
             | Your inputs are lists of numbers. Your outputs are lists of
             | numbers. There exists some possible list of numbers such
             | that, if you multiply your inputs by that list you'll get
             | (approximately) the outputs.
             | 
             | In this conception that possible set of numbers are the
             | weights. "Training" is when you run inputs, compare to
             | known outputs, and then update the weights so they produce
             | outputs closet to what you want.
             | 
             | Large Language Models, it may be hard to see how they fit
             | this paradigm - basically convert a sequence to a list of
             | numbers ('aardvark' is 1, 'apple' is 2 etc) and then the
             | desired output is the next word in the sequence
             | (represented as a number). Surprisingly, if you get good at
             | predicting next word in sequence you also get the ChatGPT
             | et al behavior.
        
             | tantony wrote:
             | This is what happens when running inference on a neural
             | network:
             | 
             | Input (list of numbers) -> (Bunch of math operations) with
             | (other numbers) -> Output (also a list of numbers)
             | 
             | This applies whether you are talking about image
             | classification, image generation, text generation etc.
             | 
             | The model defines what the "(Bunch of math operations)"
             | part is. As in, do these multiplications, then add, then a
             | tanh operation etc.
             | 
             | The weights define what the "(other numbers)" are. Training
             | is the process of figuring out these weights using various
             | methods - some of which involve example inputs/outputs
             | (supervised learning), others don't require examples
             | (unsupervised or self-supervised learning).
        
         | jazzyjackson wrote:
         | I know it's downvote-worthy to suggest it but I really am so
         | much more productive since I started using LLMs to explain
         | technical jargon to me, it's very good at comparing
         | technologies, so I can say "I understand x, but how is y
         | different" and it will give an explanation fine tuned to my
         | understanding -- this is a huge leap from the context-switching
         | of opening a new tab and clicking on random websites looking
         | for a blog that explains something at my level, or leaving a
         | post on a website and waiting for someone to respond.
        
           | beepbooptheory wrote:
           | This has been really the most productive use of it for me.
           | But I'm so cheap I've been stopping myself more and more and
           | just spending an extra minute googling to save the cent. Even
           | if its just literally penny pinching, its also helping the
           | environment! Is the velocity I get an answer worth the
           | cycles? I'm not so sure these days, but its been interesting
           | reflecting on this.
           | 
           | Definitely excited for the inevitable reports comparing the
           | killowats spent cumulatively to get an answer through google
           | vs openai. How many blogs visited does it take to spend the
           | same amount of energy getting the answer from a model?
        
           | thefourthchime wrote:
           | Same! ChatGPT has been out for months, and really only in the
           | last few weeks have i started using it as much as I should.
           | I'm using an electron wrapper now, so it's a first class
           | desktop app. With the plus subscription, the 3.5 is as fast
           | as google.
        
             | jazzyjackson wrote:
             | I'm subscribed to Poe now which has a nice ios app + mac
             | desktop for GPT4 and Anthropic's equivalent, Claude+
        
             | hackernewds wrote:
             | what is an electron wrapper
        
               | MacsHeadroom wrote:
               | I asked GPT-4 for you:
               | 
               | "An "Electron wrapper" refers to a software application
               | created using Electron, a popular open-source framework.
               | Electron allows developers to build cross-platform
               | desktop applications using web technologies like HTML,
               | CSS, and JavaScript.
               | 
               | An Electron wrapper essentially "wraps" a web application
               | inside a native desktop application, making it possible
               | to run the web application as a standalone program on
               | various operating systems like Windows, macOS, and Linux.
               | This is particularly useful for developers who want to
               | create desktop applications without having to write
               | separate code for each platform. Instead, they can use
               | their existing web application code and package it with
               | Electron to create a desktop application that works
               | across multiple platforms."
        
               | photochemsyn wrote:
               | What, nothing about Electron's unacceptable code bloat
               | factor? Most disappointing!
               | 
               | https://www.hendrik-erz.de/post/electron-bloated-web-and-
               | tra...
               | 
               | A GPT-4-on-GPT-4 flame war might be an incredible
               | spectacle...
        
               | MacsHeadroom wrote:
               | I asked GPT-4 to produce a simulated argument about
               | Electron which devolves into name calling. Here's the 2
               | page of result it returned:
               | 
               | User1: Hey, have you heard about Electron? It's an
               | awesome framework for creating cross-platform apps using
               | web technologies like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
               | 
               | User2: Yeah, I've heard of it. But I think it has some
               | pretty serious shortcomings. Like, it's notorious for
               | consuming a lot of system resources, which can be a major
               | drawback for certain applications.
               | 
               | User1: Well, I think that's an acceptable trade-off for
               | the ease of development and the ability to create one
               | codebase that works across different platforms. Plus,
               | it's backed by a large community, which is always a plus.
               | 
               | User2: Sure, but you can't ignore the fact that it
               | increases the app's size significantly. Even a simple
               | Electron app has a huge size compared to native apps,
               | making it a poor choice for users with limited storage or
               | slow internet connections.
               | 
               | User1: The size issue can be managed with optimization
               | techniques, and honestly, storage is becoming cheaper and
               | more abundant these days. You're blowing it out of
               | proportion.
               | 
               | User2: It's not just about storage. Electron apps tend to
               | have worse performance than native apps because they run
               | on a separate instance of Chromium for each app. That's
               | just bad design!
               | 
               | User1: Look, no framework is perfect, but Electron
               | provides a valuable solution for developers who don't
               | want to learn multiple programming languages and
               | platforms. It's about practicality and productivity.
               | 
               | User2: Practicality? You call it practical to have apps
               | that drain your battery life and hog system resources?
               | I'd rather invest the time in learning native development
               | than creating a subpar user experience.
               | 
               | User1: You're really not giving Electron enough credit
               | here. It's widely used by popular apps like Slack, Visual
               | Studio Code, and Discord! They can't be all that bad.
               | 
               | User2: Just because some popular apps use it doesn't mean
               | it's a good choice. They're actually prime examples of
               | how Electron can lead to bloated and resource-hungry
               | applications. Have you ever noticed how sluggish those
               | apps can be at times?
               | 
               | User1: Oh, come on! You're just nitpicking now. The
               | benefits of Electron far outweigh its drawbacks for most
               | developers and applications.
               | 
               | User2: I'm not nitpicking. I'm pointing out legitimate
               | concerns. If Electron keeps getting a free pass, we'll
               | end up with a sea of bloated, resource-hungry
               | applications, dragging down our devices.
               | 
               | User1: You're just being a native app elitist! Electron
               | has democratized app development, making it more
               | accessible for web developers. It's better to have more
               | apps available, even if they're not perfect, than to have
               | a limited selection because of high barriers to entry.
               | 
               | User2: You Electron fanatics never cease to amaze me.
               | It's like you're blind to its glaring problems. You want
               | everyone to just ignore the elephant in the room!
               | 
               | User1: And you native app snobs are so quick to dismiss
               | any alternative solution that threatens your precious,
               | exclusive club! Get off your high horse!
               | 
               | User2: At least my "exclusive club" doesn't promote lazy
               | development practices and drag down user experience!
               | Enjoy your bloated apps, you Electron zealot!
               | 
               | User1: Have fun in your walled garden, you insufferable
               | native app purist!
        
               | solarmist wrote:
               | Touche
        
           | Steuard wrote:
           | That sounds like a cool use case, but... how can you bring
           | yourself to trust anything at all that it tells you? This
           | feels like it's just _begging_ to contaminate your
           | understanding with sparse, unpredictable errors, and
           | personally I find the thought of that unexpectedly dismaying.
        
             | nr2x wrote:
             | Personally Ive been coding long enough I've forgotten more
             | than most junior people know. So I use ChatGPT to refresh
             | my memory more than anything else. Like yesterday couldn't
             | remember how to open some ports on a Postgres server.
             | ChatGPT gave me a 95% accurate answer and based on my own
             | knowledge base I fixed the mistake. This took all of a few
             | seconds. Whereas with normal web search it would take an
             | order of magnitude longer and likely be not much more
             | accurate.
        
             | crazygringo wrote:
             | It's a lot easier to verify whether something is correct
             | once you know what the thing is.
             | 
             | Half the time when I'm googling something I don't even know
             | what subfield the term belongs to. I don't know what
             | related terms I can use to narrow it down. Or I keep
             | getting papers on a related but different question from
             | what I'm trying to ask.
             | 
             | But if ChatGPT gives me an answer in context of a bunch of
             | related terminology, it's so much easier to then plug those
             | additional terms into Google and find a/the authoritative
             | source.
             | 
             | For comparison, a lot of my (non-ChatGPT) initial searches
             | will result in random blog entries or something that are
             | often just flat-out wrong or else ignoring competing
             | viewpoints. But they still might point me to better context
             | and search terms.
             | 
             | The value of ChatGPT is that it gets you to information you
             | can verify so much faster. But you still need to verify it
             | the same way you need to verify stuff you find on blogs or
             | Quora or Reddit or HN.
        
             | taink wrote:
             | No need to trust it -- that's the best part.
             | 
             | I tend to trust blogs or conversations with other people
             | more than I should. The benefit of a tool like ChatGPT is
             | that I already distrust it, and I tend to double-check more
             | often what it responds.
             | 
             | I agree with you, but the comparison and fine-tuning GP
             | mentioned are really areas where it's an unparalleled tool
             | right now. Dismissing it in fear of "contaminating your
             | understanding" is missing out on what the tool may offer to
             | you. It's not really that much worse than a search query.
        
         | visarga wrote:
         | Just for quick reference:
         | 
         | LLM - the model
         | 
         | weights - the data of the model itself
         | 
         | LoRA - a small addition to the model for more efficient fine-
         | tuning and distribution
        
           | EGreg wrote:
           | Tell us more about LoRA
        
             | visarga wrote:
             | Instead of a matrix N _N they use two matrices, N_ d and
             | d*N, and assuming d << N it would be like a lightweight
             | addition. Keeping the original matrix unchanged, this new
             | addition is simply added in parallel and initialised to low
             | values.
        
             | [deleted]
        
         | thefourthchime wrote:
         | I understand that AI/ML jargon can be confusing. Here's a brief
         | explanation of some common terms and concepts to help you
         | better understand them:
         | 
         | Weights: In machine learning, weights are parameters used in
         | models to determine the strength of the relationship between
         | input features and the output prediction. They are learned
         | during the training process and are adjusted to minimize the
         | error in the model's predictions.
         | 
         | LoRA: LoRA stands for "Learning from Rules and Arguments." It's
         | a method that combines rule-based reasoning with neural
         | networks, which allows AI systems to reason using human-like
         | logic and provide explanations for their decisions. LoRA can
         | enhance the interpretability and transparency of AI systems.
         | 
         | LLM: LLM stands for "Large Language Model." It refers to
         | advanced AI models, such as OpenAI's GPT series, which are
         | trained on vast amounts of text data to understand and generate
         | human-like text. These models can perform various language
         | tasks such as translation, summarization, question-answering,
         | and more.
         | 
         | Supervised Learning: This is a type of machine learning where
         | models are trained using labeled data. The model learns to map
         | input features to the corresponding output labels through a
         | process of trial and error, adjusting the weights to minimize
         | the difference between predictions and true labels.
         | 
         | Unsupervised Learning: In contrast to supervised learning,
         | unsupervised learning does not use labeled data. Instead, it
         | aims to discover patterns or structures in the data, such as
         | clustering or dimensionality reduction, without explicit
         | guidance.
         | 
         | Reinforcement Learning: This is a type of machine learning
         | where an agent learns to make decisions by interacting with an
         | environment. The agent receives feedback in the form of rewards
         | or penalties and aims to maximize its cumulative reward over
         | time.
         | 
         | Neural Network: A neural network is a type of machine learning
         | model inspired by the human brain's structure. It consists of
         | interconnected layers of nodes (neurons) that process and
         | transmit information. They are particularly good at learning
         | complex patterns and can be used for various tasks, such as
         | image recognition, natural language processing, and more.
         | 
         | Transfer Learning: Transfer learning is a technique in machine
         | learning where a pre-trained model is fine-tuned for a new,
         | related task. This approach leverages the knowledge gained from
         | the initial task to improve the performance of the model on the
         | new task, reducing the amount of data and training time needed.
         | 
         | These are just a few of the many concepts and tools used in
         | AI/ML. Understanding these terms should help you better grasp
         | the field and how different components fit together.
         | 
         | -- ChatGPT 4
        
           | simse wrote:
           | I'm sorry, it's ChatGPT (GPT-3.5) or GPT-4
        
           | benob wrote:
           | Picked the wrong one. LoRA, Low-rank Adaptation of LLMs
           | (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.09685.pdf), consists in adapting
           | the weights of a big neural network to a target task (here,
           | answering to instructions). It doesn't touch the weights of
           | the original model, but rather adds the product of two low-
           | rank matrices to select layers. The weights from those
           | matrices are learnable. The method allows to adapt big models
           | on (relatively) low-memory GPUs.
        
             | comex wrote:
             | It didn't just pick the wrong one; "Learning from Rules and
             | Arguments" is completely made up.
        
               | [deleted]
        
           | Faint wrote:
           | Good job hallucinating with LoRA. I wonder if the paper was
           | published after knowledge cut-off date.. (it stands for Low-
           | Rank Adaptation).
        
             | [deleted]
        
             | comex wrote:
             | It was published in June 2021, which is before the cutoff
             | date of September 2021, but not by much.
        
         | thequadehunter wrote:
         | Ironically the best way to learn these terms is to ask ChatGPT.
        
         | speedgoose wrote:
         | You can ask ChatGPT.
        
           | Ruhrbaron wrote:
           | Or Alpaca.
        
             | speedgoose wrote:
             | Alpaca is fun, but I would rather ask ChatGPT.
        
         | d0m wrote:
         | Run the Alpaca chat and ask it :)
        
         | throwwwaway69 wrote:
         | I'm a software guy learning the AI field and tools and I
         | literally made a glossary in my notes that I add to any time I
         | run into a new initialism or word or concept. It's pretty long.
        
       | cuttothechase wrote:
       | Genuinely curious since I don't want to brick my mac :) - It
       | seems that there are more than a handful of segmentation faults
       | happening for various users running this program on their Mac's.
       | Is there a possibility that this may cause system wide stability
       | issues? Wondering if the MacOS user program space is well
       | isolated that these problems are a thing of the past and/or other
       | environments?
       | 
       | Also, ChatGPT seems ambivalent about it -
       | 
       | "However, it is worth noting that modern operating systems like
       | macOS have built-in protections to prevent user-level programs
       | from accessing sensitive system resources, which can help
       | mitigate the impact of a segmentation fault.
       | 
       | In summary, running a faulty program written in C language that
       | crashes with a segmentation fault can potentially cause system
       | stability issues on a Mac, but the exact impact will depend on a
       | variety of factors. It is generally a good practice to test and
       | debug programs thoroughly before running them on any system,
       | especially if they involve sensitive or critical resources."
        
         | creshal wrote:
         | > Wondering if the MacOS user program space is well isolated
         | that these problems are a thing of the past and/or other
         | environments?
         | 
         | If by "past" you mean "1980s" and "other environments" you mean
         | DOS, yes. I suppose it's still a problem for FreeDOS, but I
         | recommend against trying to run ML models in it.
        
         | nynx wrote:
         | An application crashing, except in very specific scenarios
         | which don't apply here, won't interfere with the rest of the
         | os.
        
         | spyremeown wrote:
         | It's a user space process... it won't ever crash the kernel. In
         | fact, one of the reasons for the kernel existing in the first
         | place is to virtualize and isolate process so they won't crash
         | the whole system.
        
       | tarruda wrote:
       | Looking forward to try it, but I don't have a macbook. I wonder
       | if it runs on i7-11800h (8 core 16 thread CPU) with 64gb RAM
        
         | zitterbewegung wrote:
         | Alpaca.cpp is a derivative of llama.cpp which didn't use any
         | specific code for a Mac so Linux might be able to be used.
        
         | unshavedyak wrote:
         | I'm using this exact repo on Linux (NixOS), right now.
         | 
         | Wish i could run the 60B model, this 7B model is a bit weird.
        
         | tarruda wrote:
         | The answer is yes: It ran on a x86 virtual machine with 4 CPU
         | threads and 12gb of RAM
        
         | kristianp wrote:
         | Would that require porting llama to OpenVino?
        
       | Dfiesl wrote:
       | Mines behaving a bit strangely...
       | 
       | me: hello
       | 
       | alpaca: Hello!
       | 
       | me: what is your name?
       | 
       | alpaca: The answer to this question depends on what you mean by
       | "know". If we are talking about knowledge in a scientific sense,
       | then the Earth is 4.5 billion years old (give or take). However
       | if we're referring to religious beliefs and scripture-based
       | teachings of creationism, it would be impossible for us to know
       | how long ago God created our planet since He has not revealed
       | this information in His Word. In either case though, the Earth is
       | billions of years old!
       | 
       | alpaca: Hello there :) How are you?
       | 
       | alpaca: "How are you?" "I'm great!" :D Thanks for asking. You
       | too?? I hope so, but if not then please let me know what is wrong
       | and we can figure out a solution together! :)
       | 
       | alpaca: My Name Is ________. #AskMeAnything #NameYourselfFirst
       | #BeYou #DoItForTheGram @_KaylaJewelz
        
       | phren0logy wrote:
       | @antimatter15 - how much ram does your M2 MacBook Air have?
       | Performance looks very good. Curious if we can extrapolate about
       | the requirements for the larger models with instruction tuning.
        
         | zitterbewegung wrote:
         | Using the scripts from llama.cpp I was able to run the 65B
         | model on my M1 Max which used ~40 GB of RAM. With 32GB you
         | should be able to run 33B and lower.
         | 
         | See
         | https://gist.github.com/zitterbewegung/4787e42617aa0be6019c3...
        
           | AndroidKitKat wrote:
           | No chance I'd be able to run this on an 8GB M1 Mac mini then?
           | Looking to hook this up to an IRC bot for a bit of fun with
           | my friends and have this spare Mac lying around.
        
             | madmads wrote:
             | The 7b model loads on a lot less than 8GB RAM, so you
             | should be good to use it on an 8GB M1 Mac Mini. It takes
             | very little time to set up, so it's worth trying to find
             | out.
        
               | AndroidKitKat wrote:
               | Yeah I'll get this set up when I'm home from work!
               | Perhaps the trickiest part for me is going to be hooking
               | it up to IRC, but that's the fun part!
        
             | zitterbewegung wrote:
             | 7B will be fine I have heard people getting llama working
             | on a nexus 6
        
           | phren0logy wrote:
           | Thanks!
        
           | recuter wrote:
           | There are efforts like https://github.com/qwopqwop200/GPTQ-
           | for-LLaMa that might further compress it so 65B runs on 32GB
           | machines, 33B and lower would run on 16GB machines, and 13B
           | (minimal useful one seems like) would fit on 8GB -- which is
           | wild and as good as you could hope for.
        
         | gorbypark wrote:
         | The 30B variant of LlaMa quantized to 4bit and running with
         | llama.cpp takes approximately 20GB of ram. It runs pretty
         | decently on my M2 MacBook Air with 24GB of ram. I assume Alpaca
         | will take the same amount of ram.
        
       | yieldcrv wrote:
       | wait, so although Stanford didn't release their code, it was
       | enough inspiration for people to retrain/fine tune the Llama
       | models on their own?
        
         | doctoboggan wrote:
         | They didn't release their code or weights, but they did release
         | the training data, which is what was used to create the LoRa
         | here.
        
           | gorbypark wrote:
           | If I am not mistaken, they actually did release their code.
           | Yesterday there was a change to the repo that added a
           | train.py file. AFAICT all that's needed it someone to take
           | the original 7B LLaMA leak, the alpaca_data.json file and run
           | train.py on some beefy hardware. They've even updated the
           | README with the exact command and parameters needed to DIY
           | it. I'm somewhat expecting that there will be a release by
           | someone in the next few days.
        
             | doctoboggan wrote:
             | That's awesome! I think I remember them saying it was only
             | around ~$500 in compute costs to train so I hope we see
             | those weights released soon. I am hoping someone releases
             | the 13B model fine-tuned.
        
               | throwaway1851 wrote:
               | $100.
               | 
               | "For our initial run, fine-tuning a 7B LLaMA model took 3
               | hours on 8 80GB A100s, which costs less than $100 on most
               | cloud compute providers. We note that training efficiency
               | can be improved to further reduce the cost."
               | 
               | ($500 was what they paid OpenAI to generate the fine-
               | tuning dataset.)
        
           | yieldcrv wrote:
           | ah, right I did notice that because people were running
           | queries into the training data.
           | 
           | why is there a general assumption that unreleased unreleased
           | weights are better? is that something we can do, a free-
           | weights community that solves this recurring issue?
        
       | ar9av wrote:
       | language models require massive scale to train. But scale isn't
       | only in the number of parameters or neurons. Scale also exists in
       | the amount of data the model trains on.
       | 
       | While parameter size affects post training size and requirements
       | to run. Data size does not. Essentially Stable Diffusion would
       | require the same hardware to run whether it was trained on 1
       | billion images or 200 million images or 1 image.
       | 
       | Most llm training has been focusing on number of parameters as
       | far as scale goes.
       | 
       | Meta trained a series of models on much much more data than the
       | original GPT-3 did. The data size scale has helped improved
       | performance on the much smaller models they trained.
        
         | Taek wrote:
         | "Essentially Stable Diffusion would require the same hardware
         | to run whether it was trained on 1 billion images or 200
         | million images or 1 image."
         | 
         | Same hardware maybe but you need more compute as the image
         | count goes up
        
           | visarga wrote:
           | The parent poster was talking about training longer but the
           | model being kept at smaller scale so it would not be
           | expensive to use in production. It's a trade-off, you could
           | train shorter with a larger model.
        
       | jakecopp wrote:
       | Is it possible to download alpaca models with more than 7b
       | parameters?
        
       | philaser wrote:
       | Running perfectly on a MacBook Air M1 8Gb RAM 512GB SSD.
       | Responses are quite slow and system is sluggish, but it works!
       | I am John from New York City       > Hi John! How is the weather
       | like in NYC?       It's a bit chilly but sunny and clear. Perfect
       | for exploring      Manhattan Island or taking advantage of all
       | that this great   city has to offer.        > Have you thought of
       | moving to somewhere warmer? Miami    perhaps?       I have! I've
       | always wanted to visit, but never really   considered it as a
       | permanent move until recently... It sounds   like the perfect
       | place for me.        > Recently? Why the sudden change of heart?
       | what made you want to permanently move to Miami?
       | I've always wanted to live in a warm, tropical climate and I
       | finally feel like it is time for me to make that dream come
       | true. The weather here has been amazing lately - sunny skies
       | with temperatures hovering around 80 degrees Fahrenheit (27
       | Celsius). It feels so good!       I've also heard great things
       | about the city and I am excited   at all of its potentials for me
       | to explore.
        
       | siraben wrote:
       | Are there torrents for 13B and up as well?
        
         | dmw_ng wrote:
         | The LoRa weights for 13B are on huggingface (
         | https://huggingface.co/samwit/alpaca13B-lora ), it should be
         | possible to follow the instructions linked in the Alpaca.cpp
         | readme to merge those weights into the base 13B model, then
         | just just follow the usual Llama.cpp conversion and
         | quantization steps
         | 
         | Note LoRa fine tunes aren't the same as the original Alpaca,
         | LoRa results in some performance loss (although how much isn't
         | clear)
        
       | syntaxing wrote:
       | I noticed these always run a 7B model. What happens if you try a
       | 13B model? Would it take a ridiculous amount of RAM?
        
       | jpgvm wrote:
       | Ok not bad and pretty damn good performance:
       | 
       | > Give me a writing prompt for a sci-fi story.
       | 
       | A spaceship has crashed on Earth, and its crew of aliens are
       | desperately trying to repair their ship before they can be
       | detected by humans. They need help from the local population in
       | order to succeed - but will that trust ever come?
        
         | proxygeek wrote:
         | That's straight-up District 13 :)
        
           | danielbln wrote:
           | District 9?
        
       | seydor wrote:
       | now it just needs to be instructed to tell the truth , the whole
       | truth and nothing but the truth
        
         | [deleted]
        
       | gigel82 wrote:
       | Does it have any Apple M2 / ARM specific dependencies /
       | optimizations, or will it generally run on any CPU (x86)?
        
         | huseyinkeles wrote:
         | I'm getting bunch of errors on an Intel mac, starts with the
         | following, which suggests that it's about the CPU architecture,
         | but maybe I'm wrong.
         | 
         | sysctl: unknown oid 'hw.optional.arm64'
        
           | strikingloo wrote:
           | same problem, haven't found a solution. Please let me know if
           | you do
        
             | strikingloo wrote:
             | Okay for what is worth, I was getting that as a warning but
             | the ./chat executable works anyway. So give it a try if it
             | is being compiled!
        
           | cuttothechase wrote:
           | I am getting the same error on an Intel Mac.
        
         | antimatter15 wrote:
         | It inherits from ARM NEON optimizations in llama.cpp but I
         | believe it should also work on x86.
        
           | gpderetta wrote:
           | it built in a couple of seconds with no issues on my x86
           | machine. Downloading weights now.
        
           | inaka10100101 wrote:
           | Can we run it in colab. It isn't working for me.
        
           | gorbypark wrote:
           | Someone contributed AVX2 support a few days after the initial
           | release, so llama.cpp (and the alpaca.cpp fork) should work
           | on most x86 CPUs as well now.
        
         | lxe wrote:
         | It does run on either with decent speed. Probably can even do
         | it on a rasberry pi 4.
        
         | mil22 wrote:
         | Runs fine on WSL2:
         | 
         | main: seed = 1678990693 llama_model_load: loading model from
         | 'ggml-alpaca-7b-q4.bin' - please wait ... llama_model_load:
         | ggml ctx size = 4529.34 MB llama_model_load: memory_size =
         | 512.00 MB, n_mem = 16384 llama_model_load: loading model part
         | 1/1 from 'ggml-alpaca-7b-q4.bin' llama_model_load:
         | .................................... done llama_model_load:
         | model size = 4017.27 MB / num tensors = 291
         | 
         | system_info: n_threads = 4 / 32 | AVX = 1 | AVX2 = 1 | AVX512 =
         | 0 | FMA = 1 | NEON = 0 | ARM_FMA = 0 | F16C = 1 | FP16_VA = 0 |
         | WASM_SIMD = 0 | BLAS = 0 | SSE3 = 1 | VSX = 0 | main:
         | interactive mode on. sampling parameters: temp = 0.100000,
         | top_k = 40, top_p = 0.950000, repeat_last_n = 64,
         | repeat_penalty = 1.300000
         | 
         | == Running in chat mode. == - Press Ctrl+C to interject at any
         | time. - Press Return to return control to LLaMa. - If you want
         | to submit another line, end your input in '\'.
         | 
         | > What is an alpaca? An Alpaca (Vicugna pacos) is one of two
         | species in the genus Vicuna, which are both domesticated
         | animals from South America and Central Asia that have been bred
         | for their fine wool. >
        
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           | windstar81 wrote:
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         | unshavedyak wrote:
         | Works fine on my x86. Running Linux (NixOS). Ryzen 5950x.
        
       | bigattichouse wrote:
       | Edit the make file and add
       | 
       | -Wno-unused-result
       | 
       | to each of the final compile steps
       | 
       | if you want to compile and run under Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS
        
       | Xeoncross wrote:
       | I hope someone good has picked up Kevin/antimatter15 by now. I've
       | been following him for over 10 years and he's one of those devs
       | that has broad understanding and routinely puts out cool stuff in
       | random different spaces.
        
       | aryamaan wrote:
       | are people not running these on collab?
        
         | inaka10100101 wrote:
         | Yeah i too wanted but couldn't. Downloaded the weights and all
         | but it isn't running in colab. Can someone help
        
       | filippofinke wrote:
       | This is funny, the response contains some data from the dataset
       | itself.
       | 
       | > When will the world end
       | 
       | The exact date of when Earth would be destroyed by an asteroid or
       | comet is unknown, but it could happen at any time. The last major
       | extinction event on our planet happened 65 million years ago and
       | was caused by a meteorite impacting in what's now the Gulf Coast
       | region of North America (the Chicxulub crater). ### Instruction:
       | What is an asteroid belt? Instruction: What does it mean to be
       | "in orbit"? ##Response:
       | 
       | >
        
         | [deleted]
        
       | mrbonner wrote:
       | > explain general relativity for a 5 year old kid
       | 
       | General Relativity is the theory that explains how gravity works.
       | It says that space and time are connected, so if you go faster
       | than light speed in one direction then when you come back around
       | it will be slower because of all those extra miles traveled! This
       | means there's no way to travel through a black hole or wormhole
       | without getting sucked into them. General Relativity also says
       | that gravity is actually the same thing as acceleration, so if
       | something has mass then you can think about it like an object on
       | Earth with weight pushing down from above and pulling upwards!
        
         | psychphysic wrote:
         | Good enough to have his own tiktok.
        
         | Steuard wrote:
         | Wow. Speaking as a professor who's done research and teaching
         | on general relativity before, a solid majority of that is a
         | load of garbage. (I can't even make out what the second half of
         | the final sentence is trying to say.)
         | 
         | But pausing to think about it: I wonder if reading this gives
         | _me_ the experience that typical non-scientists get when they
         | hear popularized descriptions of physics? Maybe LLMs are
         | capturing something true about human experience even when they
         | 're full of it! [Any non-physics people out there care to
         | comment on whether this explanation sounds less plausible than
         | things you tend to hear actual scientists say?]
        
           | ClearAndPresent wrote:
           | Non-physics person here:
           | 
           | > General Relativity is the theory that explains how gravity
           | works.
           | 
           | Okay. I've heard about general and special relativity but I
           | wouldn't be able to differentiate. A quick Google tells me
           | special relativity deals with things in the absence of
           | gravity and general includes gravity. So... maybe?
           | 
           | > It says that space and time are connected,
           | 
           | Ok. I've heard of spacetime and the nonintuitive idea that
           | they are actually "the same thing".
           | 
           | > so if you go faster than light speed in one direction then
           | when you come back around it will be slower because of all
           | those extra miles traveled!
           | 
           | What? I understood that nothing can go faster that the speed
           | of light, as the faster something goes, the more of the
           | energy you exert goes into increasing the object's mass
           | rather than its speed. C is a hard limit.
           | 
           | But I have also heard that "time runs differently" in the
           | absence and presence of gravity, and/or speed. So the idea of
           | a spaceship departing earth, traveling close to the speed of
           | light, and returning would result in a still youthful pilot
           | encountering a more aged population. Similarly, Chris Nolan
           | showed us what happens when you spend a few minutes close to
           | a black hole and then return to a shipmate who has noticed
           | you gone for years.
           | 
           | Why this happens is not clear.
           | 
           | > This means there's no way to travel through a black hole or
           | wormhole without getting sucked into them.
           | 
           | Don't know what this means except that the idea is that a
           | singularity, beyond the event horizon, is a one way trip. How
           | this relates to the previous sentence is unclear.
           | 
           | > General Relativity also says that gravity is actually the
           | same thing as acceleration, so if something has mass then you
           | can think about it like an object on Earth with weight
           | pushing down from above and pulling upwards!
           | 
           | Generously, this makes me think of the (apocryphal?) thought
           | experiment of an elevator in space accelerating 'up' at 1G.
           | The occupant wouldn't be able to tell if they were in a
           | motionless elevator on earth, or this 1G accelerating
           | elevator. Suggesting there is a relationship between gravity
           | and acceleration? Leading to relativity?
           | 
           | But the sentence is so opaque I'm just guessing.
           | 
           | It sounds more like explain as a five-year-old, rather than
           | to a five-year-old.
           | 
           | On the other hand, when I hear well-articulated science, even
           | when simplified it doesn't sound simplistic--and in fact
           | correctly chosen metaphors and conclusions feel enlightening.
        
       | b33j0r wrote:
       | It stinks that people keep meaning "M1/M2" macbook when they say
       | "macbook."
        
         | solanav wrote:
         | I mean, they are now the default. Whether we like it or not.
        
           | danielbln wrote:
           | We should like it, because they are just so, so much better.
           | Also, we're coming up on 3 years of availability, and the
           | previous lines between 2015 and 2020 were pretty lackluster,
           | so I'd expect a lot of people to have upgraded by now.
        
           | b33j0r wrote:
           | I still have an intel model, upgrading would cost me an ARM!
           | 
           | But I am a fan, have used em at work.
        
       | siraben wrote:
       | Zero-shot translation capabilities (note: doesn't work with all
       | languages well)                 > translate into japanese: "I am
       | going to school today, but it is raining."        Ri Ben Yu de
       | [Jin Tian haXue Xiao niXing kimasuga, Yu gaChui iteiru]
        
         | themoonisachees wrote:
         | I expect translation especially of non-technical sentences to
         | be a solved problem, but can anyone confirme the translations
         | are accurate?
        
           | TMWNN wrote:
           | Google Translate shows 100% accuracy when translated back
           | into English.
        
             | numpad0 wrote:
             | That actually only proves that enough information is
             | preserved for MT to work with the text, not the validity of
             | it as it's presented.
        
           | danielbln wrote:
           | Tried it with German and it's overall correct-ish, but makes
           | lots of small mistakes.
           | 
           | > > Translate this to German: I went to the back alleys of
           | downtown Metropolis to find a phone booth I could use to
           | dress up as my alter ego: Superman!
           | 
           | > Ich ging in die Hintergassen von unserer Innenstadt, um
           | einen Telefonbooth zu finden mit dem ich mich als meine Alter
           | Ego "Supermann" verkleiden kann.
           | 
           | but it should be
           | 
           | > Ich ging in die Hinterhofe der Innenstadt von Metropolis,
           | um eine Telefonzelle zu finden, in der ich mich als mein
           | alternatives Ich verkleiden konnte: Superman!
        
           | astrange wrote:
           | The outer Ri Ben Yu de is a weird way to present it.
        
           | theaussiestew wrote:
           | To me, it looks like a strange mix of Japanese and Mandarin
           | characters with Mandarin grammar.
        
           | numpad0 wrote:
           | > InJapanese says: "Heute is going to the school, but rain is
           | blowing"
        
           | nonbirithm wrote:
           | Chui iteiru ought to be Jiang tsuteiru and Jin Tian  is not a
           | word, it should be Jin Ri
        
             | websg-x wrote:
             | Jin Tian is Chinese word not Japanese. Jin Ri andJin Tian
             | have the same meaning in Chinese.
        
       | thot_experiment wrote:
       | Does anyone have a link to pre-quantized models for
       | this/llama.cpp? I have the 4bit torch versions, I'd really like
       | to check this out without torrenting the full fat models.
       | 
       | (30B on a GV100 is very impressive by the way, highly recommend
       | people play with this stuff, 13B runs comfortably on a 1080Ti,
       | would really like to compare inference speed and accuracy between
       | the implementations)
        
       | bogwog wrote:
       | Does this really need to be a fork of llama.cpp? It seems like
       | there's no real changes to the code.
        
         | antimatter15 wrote:
         | It reworks the interactive mode into a chat interface, which
         | -if my code was cleaner- could have just been a pull request.
        
           | ggerganov wrote:
           | "Clean Code, Horrible Performance" :)
        
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           | doctoboggan wrote:
           | There is an interactive mode in llama.cpp
           | 
           | https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/blob/master/main.cpp#.
           | ..
           | 
           | EDIT: I see now you are saying you re-worked the existing
           | interactive mode. I still think your changes could be a PR
           | into the original repo
        
         | xiphias2 wrote:
         | Alpaca model is llama trained on ChatGPT, it's basically a way
         | of getting cheaply what OpenAI did after the GPT
         | training....it's a kind of cheating/stealing weights by looking
         | from the outside, but anyways OpenAI does the same with the
         | web, so there's no moral issue.
        
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