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Is a dystopian surveillance state computationally possible?
This isn't really a conspiracy theory question. More of an inquire on the global computational power and data storage logistics question.
Most recording instruments such as cameras and microphones are typically voluntary opt in devices, in that,…
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Are simple animal snares and traps a form of automation? Of computation?
I'm trying to understand the relationship of humans and automation, historically and culturally.
I ask because the waterclock is generally considered the earliest form of automation, but snares and deadfall traps constitute simple switch…
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is bfloat training compatible with float16 inference?
Lately I stumbled upon the Llama3 hf docs: https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/main/en/model_doc/llama3
The Llama3 models were trained using bfloat16, but the original inference uses float16. The checkpoints uploaded on the Hub use torch_dtype…
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