Kerfuffle

@Kerfuffle@sh.itjust.works

github.com/KerfuffleV2 — various random open source projects.

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Kerfuffle,

Any requests? I can make various dog breeds, wolves, foxes, whatever it takes to completely extinguish the joy in your heart. https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/4e7155e0-caa8-4668-b083-45481082301c.jpeg

Bonus white Dobermann and Siberian Husky pup.

Kerfuffle, (edited )

Not bad, but he looks a bit too upbeat for this thread. Let me fix that for you. https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/8ff69188-0e0c-4088-98ea-9aa446e37fe6.png

edit: I did the other one for fun also. https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/01077ff1-d217-495f-9ccd-11448a5ed9bb.png

He seems very helpful and willing to give you a hand.

Kerfuffle,

Sure… It’s a bit hard to get pitbull, lab and robot to all come through clearly but I tried! (I also took it easy on you and didn’t make him too pitiful looking.) First image is the completed version, second one is the initial 1024x1024 generation.

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/ac7a296a-9352-43fd-bf70-d86137fa4db4.png

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/e4bfbc04-400f-4565-8010-341cb9fbc5eb.png

Kerfuffle,

The messed up powerlines were annoying me, so here’s one more attempt.

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/9bc4235f-a8d0-4ba8-8042-9da664da9b23.png

Kerfuffle,

They say war changes a man. I guess that goes for poodobots as well.

Kerfuffle,

No one expects the laser from the back. https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/49883062-4800-4e15-9b89-d1d44e2f3bda.png

Kerfuffle,

Glad you liked it. Here’s one more for the road!

ExpandMaybe he’s not in perfect shape but that’s not going to stop him from enjoying li— I mean being activated. https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/6f4fabdf-41c4-4abd-92d6-d528b6f086a6.png

Kerfuffle,

Here are a few more I made with Bifröst Project. It can handle generating in 1280x1024 which is pretty nice. I don’t really like the square format that much.

Expandhttps://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/60d975a3-c879-4a4b-b158-cafa2766664a.pnghttps://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/c7a89626-da00-47de-803e-fd541e16c583.pnghttps://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/ca0e98b1-e92c-46f6-bb23-eda37cee9276.png

Kerfuffle,

Sorry, didn’t check back here for a few days. There absolutely can be German Shepherds!

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/33bbee5c-f484-41a5-ae52-83955b8779c2.pnghttps://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/a9d5dbb4-71dc-408a-9c38-a356cd1017ce.png

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/ce081a83-d3ae-418b-abe1-7ce926a1a533.pnghttps://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/a7433e2a-e509-4613-9921-dcdfb992c165.png

These are the initial generations before upscaling/processing. Generated with Bifrost Project (SDXL model).

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/3fad5965-89e9-48fe-b469-5f05430199e8.pnghttps://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/e211a981-4865-49e1-815f-41ace3bf53df.png

Kerfuffle,

That is the worst site I’ve seen in a long time. Do yourself a favor and add


<span style="color:#323232;">www.verticalfarmdaily.com###zijkant
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</span>

to your uBlock rules before following the link. If you don’t have a way to block elements, may $diety have mercy on your soul.

Kerfuffle,

Probably the furthest man made object from Earth at this point for sure.

The article says “Scientists believe compression heating caused the cap to vaporize as it sped through the atmosphere.”

Kerfuffle,

You can read as much Ayn Rand as you want with perfect understanding and you’re not really going to learn anything.

Kerfuffle,

Smaller models (7B down to 350M) can handle long conversations better

What are you basing that on? I mean, it is true there are more small models that support very long context lengths than big ones, but it’s not really because smaller models can handle them better, but because training big models takes a lot more resources. So people usually do that kind of fine-tuning on small models since training a 70B to 32K would take a crazy amount of compute and hardware.

If you could afford fine tuning it though, I’m pretty sure the big model has at least the same inherent capabilities. Usually larger models deal with ambiguity and stuff better, so there’s a pretty good chance it would actually do better than the small model assuming everything else was equal.

Kerfuffle,

Pretty sure it’s mainly non-furry non-gay hackers that take down the majority of websites.

Atheists of lemmy, what is your coping strategy when things goes downhill?

I am at an accepting stage that not everything that happens in your life is in your control. When things goes really bad and you dont have much control on it, I would assume a person who believes in god or religious figures has their belief system as a coping mechanism. For example praying to the god and so on....

Kerfuffle,

Can you provide an example where science cannot explain a situation, because I can’t honestly think of any.

Not OP, but there is some stuff. One big example is qualia. How does matter give rise to actual feelings, experiences of things? This isn’t something we can measure directly and it actually seems like it won’t be something we ever can measure. Might also be able to use something like “what was there before the big bang?” and that kind of thing.

Of course, the fact that science can’t explain something doesn’t really justify falling back on magic as an explanation though. Some stuff just may not have an answer.

Kerfuffle,

Like, those cells will require the same nutrients and same growing conditions, and they naturally 3D print themselves into the shape of themselves.

They’ll also naturally use the nutrients and energy to 3D print stuff that’s not useful to humans, like leaves, roots, flowers, etc. Basically this is how vat grown vegetables, meat, etc, can potentially be more efficient than the typical approach.

Kerfuffle,

Do we need to be more efficient?

I mean, it’s usually a beneficial thing. Using less resources (including land) to produce the same amount of food is probably going to mean less environmental damage. In the case of switching to vat grown meat it also means not torturing billions of animals every year.

We have the resources to feed everyone on Earth and have leftovers

Sure. No one starves because the food just isn’t on this planet, they starve because the people who have it won’t give it to them. That said, we’re also not using resources very sustainably so saying we produce enough food currently isn’t the same as saying we can continue this way.

We could also increase efficiency even further by reducing meat/dairy consumption.

I don’t eat any animal products so you can probably guess this is something I’m strongly in favor of as well!

Anyway, I was just responding to what I quoted not specifically arguing for 3d-printed foods. Depending on how it’s implemented, it may or may not be better environmentally than the status quo

Kerfuffle,

I agree it’s still better than walking away empty handed, but let’s not pretend that got their money back.

In the rare case the person has just stopped spending money at Amazon, I guess. For anyone that’s spending $10/month, it’s effectively the same as cash. (Also, you probably can transfer the credit to a bank account if you really want to.)

Kerfuffle,

From dealing with their support in the past and stuff they’ve accommodated, I wouldn’t be surprised if you could just ask them to do it for a small amount like that. If you do a web search, you can also find a lot of information and people claiming it’s possible to do stuff like transfer it to a Paypal account, etc.

I haven’t tried to do that personally, so maybe it really just isn’t possible. It’s still only something that will affect someone that’s never going to spend money at Amazon again, right? If I’m going to spend $5.99 at some point, it’s effectively the same as a cash refund for me. If I’m going to spend $10.99 at some point it’s almost the same as getting double the refund, since I would have spent cash instead in those cases.

Kerfuffle,

Easily hour+ long headache on your first time.

Whenever I read this kind of thing (and people seem to say it pretty often), it seems really weird to me. Same goes for complaining about distro installers. An hour of possible headache/irritation and then you use the machine for years. Obviously it would be better if stuff was easy, but an hour just seems insignificant in the scheme of things. I really just don’t understand seeing it as an actual roadblock.

(Of course, there are other situations where it could matter like if you had to install/maintain 20 machines, but that’s not what we’re talking about here.)

Incomplete disclosures by Apple and Google create “huge blindspot” for 0-day hunters (arstechnica.com)

Incomplete information included in recent disclosures by Apple and Google reporting critical zero-day vulnerabilities under active exploitation in their products has created a “huge blindspot” that’s causing a large number of offerings from other developers to go unpatched, researchers said Thursday....

Kerfuffle,

The timing and similarity highly suggests this is a problem with how almost all software has implemented the webp standard in its image processing software.

Did you read the article or the post? The point was that both places where the vulnerability was found probably used libwepb. So it’s not that there’s something inherently vulnerable in handling webp, just that they both used the same library which had a vulnerability. (Presumably the article was a little vague about the Apple side because the source wasn’t open/available.)

given that the programs processing images often have escalated privileges.

What? That sounds like a really strange thing to say. I guess one could argue it’s technically true because browsers can be considered “a program that processes images” and a browser component can end up in stuff with escalated privileges. That’s kind of a special case though and in general there’s no reason for the vast majority of programs that process images to have special privileges.

Draft &amp; Verify: Lossless Large Language Model Acceleration via Self-Speculative Decoding (arxiv.org)

We present a novel inference scheme, self-speculative decoding, for accelerating Large Language Models (LLMs) without the need for an auxiliary model. This approach is characterized by a two-stage process: drafting and verification. The drafting stage generates draft tokens at a slightly lower quality but more quickly, which is...

Kerfuffle,

Definitely very interesting, but figuring out what layers to skip is a relatively difficult problem.

I really wish they’d shown an example of the optimal layers to skip for the 13B model. Like the paper notes, using the wrong combination of skipped layers can be worse overall. So it’s not just about how many layers you skip, but which ones as well.

It would also be interesting to see if there are any common patterns in which layers are most skippable. It probably would be model architecture specific but it would be pretty useful if you could calculate the optimal skip pattern for say a 3B model and then translate that to a 30B with good/reasonable results.

Kerfuffle,

“This time you’re going to love Cortana. For reals!”

Kerfuffle,

Feet are like hands we walk on. Right? Complete with a thumb and all!

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