If you mean distributing inference across many machines, each of which could not individually deal with a large model, using today’s models, not viable with reasonable performance. The problem is that you require a lot of bandwidth between layers; a lot of data moves. When you cluster current systems, you tend to use specialized, high-bandwidth links.

It might theoretically be possible to build models that are more-amenable to this sort of thing, that have small parts of a model run on nodes that have little data interchange between them. But until they’re built, hard to say.

I’d also be a little leery of how energy-efficient such a thing is, especially if you want to use CPUs — which are probably more-amenable to be run in a shared fashion than GPUs. Just using CPU time “in the background” also probably won’t work as well as with a system running other tasks, because the limiting factor isn’t heavy crunching on a small amount of data — where a processor can make use of idle cores without much impact to other tasks — but bandwidth to the memory, which is gonna be a bottleneck for the whole system. Also, some fairly substantial memory demands, unless you can also get model size way down.

I’d also note that OP only created their account a day ago.

I would imagine that he’s got a will that defines where his assets are going.

In most respects, I’d rank a five-year-old human mentally above a raven or octopus.

USGS data:

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000rtdt/executive

M 7.6 - 2025 Aomori Prefecture, Japan Earthquake

EDIT: Google News coverage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibalism_in_Oceania

The Korowai tribe of south-eastern Papua could be one of the last surviving tribes in the world engaging in cannibalism.

Sometimes we do.

In the US, looks lile it’s illegal to trade in dolphin meat due to the Marine Mammal Protection Act.

It’s apparently legal in Japan.

4chan’s position is that they aren’t doing business in the UK, which is why they’re disregarding the UK regulator’s fines. The UK regulator might be able to block them in the UK if the UK rolls out a Great Firewall of the UK, say, a la China, but probably not get the US to enforce rulings against them. And, I’d add, such a Great British Firewall is going to have limited impact unless the Brits also ban VPNs in the UK that don’t also do such blocking internal to the VPN and additionally block external VPNs, a la Russia.

In the same way, lemmy.today is doing business in the EU.

Very unlikely, in the eyes of the US court system. They have no EU physical presence, and aren’t advertising targeting EU people.

Facebook

Yeah, now they might be affected, but they’re in the EU.

EDIT: For context, last year, this happened:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/russia-fines-google-20-decillion-world-gdp-youtube-kremlin-war-ukraine-rcna178172

Russia fines Google more than the world’s entire GDP

Russian courts can hand down whatever rulings they want, but they don’t really have an effect elsewhere unless other legal systems view them as having jurisdiction.

Iran has the death penalty for blasphemy. But the US isn’t going to enforce rulings on blasphemy unless it views Iran as having jurisdiction over the person posting said content.

Note that the issue only affects websites in the EU legal jurisdiction. From the US legal standpoint, that means doing business in the EU. The body text has the qualification, but the headline does not.

The Court of Justice of the EU—likely without realizing it—just completely shit the bed and made it effectively impossible to run any website in the entirety of the EU that hosts user-generated content.

“in the entirety of the EU”

That’s kinda clickbaity. This isn’t going to apply to, say, lemmy.today.

I used Reddit for a long time, since the extremely early days of the site, back when most of the content was posted by Reddit staff and there was really just one page.

While I wasn’t enthralled with the move from old.reddit.com to the new reddit.com, the site was at least still accessible via the old interface, absent a minor quirk here and there in how Markdown was interpreted, and different ways of customizing subreddit appearance. That wasn’t enough to cause me to leave.

What did it for me was that I expected that when they moved from their growth phase to monetization phase that they’d make some changes that I wouldn’t like, but I didn’t expect them to end access for third-party clients, which was not okay with me.

@pHr34kY@lemmy.world

It could be a backronym, where the meaning of something is changed after the name is selected to fit the name. I mean, the company is Chinese. I doubt that they initially chose an English-based name, but they sure could have adopted it later.

searches

And yes, at least according to Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BYD_Company

“BYD” is the pinyin initials of the company’s Chinese name Biyadi. The company was originally known as Yadi Electronics (亚迪电子), named after the Yadi Road in Dapeng New District, where the company was once based.[23] According to Wang Chuanfu, when the company was registered, the character “Bi” (比) was added to the name to prevent duplication, and to provide the company with an alphabetical advantage in trade shows.[24] As the name “BYD” had no particular meaning, BYD started adopting a backronymic slogan “Build Your Dreams” when it participated at the 2008 North American International Auto Show in the US.[25][26][27]

EDIT: Ah, @ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml already pointed this out.

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/607519/why-represent-percent-with-pc-rather-than#607950

It sounds like it’s mostly The Telegraph’s style guide that specifies it.

Will these even be useful on the second hand market, or are these chips gonna be on specialized PCBs for these machines?

If I understand aright, it’s going to be HBM, so it won’t be in DIMM form. Like, can’t just go stick it in a PC.

So what food has significant amounts of arginine?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arginine#Dietary_sources

No idea if that’s a medically-meaningful amount.

!pixeldungeon@lemmy.world

They look like USB A ports to me with an unusual housing around them.

If you’re wanting something that makes for a neat, mesmerising visual effect, maybe a plasma ball?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_globe

It looks like they’re available on Amazon for the mid-to-low end of that price range.

From my /etc/resolv.conf on Debian trixie, which isn’t using openresolv:

# Third party programs should typically not access this file directly, but only
# through the symlink at /etc/resolv.conf. To manage man:resolv.conf(5) in a
# different way, replace this symlink by a static file or a different symlink.

I mean, if you want to just write a static resolv.conf, I don’t think that you normally need to have it flagged immutable. You just put the text file you want in place of the symlink.

GPU prices are coming to earth

https://lemmy.today/post/42588975

Nvidia reportedly no longer supplying VRAM to its GPU board partners in response to memory crunch — rumor claims vendors will only get the die, forced to source memory on their own

If that’s true, I doubt that they’re going to be coming to earth for long.

Prices rarely, if ever, go down in a meaningful degree.

Prices on memory have virtually always gone down, and at a rapid pace.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/historical-cost-of-computer-memory-and-storage