This is an impressive effort and offering and I really want to try it out!
Clicking on "download" though, I get this:
> Full edition (121G zipped, 174G unzipped): From Internet Archive
Not to be picky about free stuff offered by others, but I'd be more happy to download a non-zipped torrent, ready for use, where I can contribute BW back to the project itself as a means of gratitude.
While the news is interesting in itself, I found the lack of illustrations disappointing.
When discussing new novel molecular structures, one would think providing a concrete visuals of what they look like more interesting than human-scale photos of materials containing them?
> You are greatly underestimating the current hardware requirements for productive local LLMs.
Fixed that for you. Right now most models produced are based on floating point maths and probabilities, which is "expensive" to do math on.
Microsoft has researched 1-bit LLMs which can run much more efficiently, and on much cheaper hardware[1].
If this research is reproducable and reusable outside their research models, this means the cost of running self-hosted LLMs will be reduced by an order of magnitude once this hits mainstream.
> All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
This is part of the US constitution. There's no "if they have proper documentation" qualification.
If the US Constitution is to have force as the core document foundational to the governance of the US, it is important for its clear text to have the force of law.
An executive agency creating new requirements for citizenship has the effect of overriding the Constitution, which brings into question what are the controlling documents for the country.
The amounts of times someone invented something that was important to them and then never make any money from it only for some other entity to make tons of money from it is way too high.
> Very few people with LinkedIn profiles read the social feed.
I read somewhere that in Norway (small sample, yes I know) LinkedIn is supposedly a more popular social network than X/Twitter.
You can have whatever opinion you mean about Elon, X, free speech and whatever. I'm not here to have that discussion.
All that considered, as a Norwegian this had me quite surprised. I don't have the source anymore, but I'd love to dig into it to see what sort of metrics they use to measure this sort of popularity.
Literally nobody I know uses LinkedIn except for business-SPAM.
Same with Pinterest in Germany which seems bizarre to me. It's supposedly more popular than Twitter, Twitch, Snapchat, LinkedIn and Reddit (but below TikTok, Instagram and Facebook).
So I’ve enabled reduced transparency and all the other accessibility settings I can find to remove the terribleness.
The UI is now mono-coloured gray and looks like MacOS back in the days before OS X was a thing - but it’s still better than what Apple “envisioned” with Tahoe.
That limits the ability to use it (or buy it) in any «unsupported» country.
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