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[–] modeler@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

So a bunch of people who fail on their first attempt, and they pass the second (or third) time. So, of all people who eventually pass, 70-80% took the test twice or more.

Corollary: in any given exam, 20-50% of all exam takers are there for the second (or more) time. So the total number of first-timers is considerably less than 100% and I'm guessing that their failure rate is greater than 50%.

[–] modeler@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Couldn't agree more.

And now that this occurred, and cost $500m, perhaps finally some enterprise companies may actually resource IT departments better and allow them to do their work. But who am I kidding, that's never going to happen if it hits bonuses and dividends :(

[–] modeler@lemmy.world 40 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (12 children)

Typically you need about 1GB graphics RAM for each billion parameters (i.e. one byte per parameter). This is a 405B parameter model. Ouch.

Edit: you can try quantizing it. This reduces the amount of memory required per parameter to 4 bits, 2 bits or even 1 bit. As you reduce the size, the performance of the model can suffer. So in the extreme case you might be able to run this in under 64GB of graphics RAM.

[–] modeler@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I think that's a better plan than physically printing keys. I'd also want to save the keys in another format somewhere - perhaps using a small script to export them into a safe store in the cloud or a box I control somewhere

[–] modeler@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You need at least two copies in two different places - places that will not burn down/explode/flood/collapse/be locked down by the police at the same time.

An enterprise is going to be commissioning new computers or reformatting existing ones at least once per day. This means the bitlocker key list would need printouts at least every day in two places.

Given the above, it's easy to see that this process will fail from time to time, in ways like accicentally leaking a document with all these keys.

[–] modeler@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I agree, so much legislation is broken, the legislators aren't doing shit, so we citizens need to fix it!

But we could start with the right to repair.

[–] modeler@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

What about the people who lived in the Americas or the Pacific 1800 years ago? These people could not have heard of Jesus as missionaries could not have spread any word to them at this time.

(And while I'm about it, Christianity was a whole different thing back then - the Trinity hadn't been invented, there were multiple sects with very different ideas, what books would be in the New Testament had not been decided, etc etc. People with beliefs of that time would seem highly unorthodox today, and the Christianity of today would be seen as heretical by those in the 3rd century, so who's going to heaven again?)

Purgatory was invented for the purpose of not sending good people who had not heard of Jesus to hell. But still, these people were denied their chance to get to heaven which seems mighty unfair.

[–] modeler@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

What about the people who lived in the Americas or the Pacific 1800 years ago? These people could not have heard of Jesus as missionaries could not have spread any word to them at this time.

(And while I'm about it, Christianity was a whole different thing back then - the Trinity hadn't been invented, there were multiple sects with very different ideas, what books would be in the New Testament had not been decided, etc etc. People with beliefs of that time would seem highly unorthodox today, and the Christianity of today would be seen as heretical by those in the 3rd century, so who's going to heaven again?)

Purgatory was invented for the purpose of not sending good people who had not heard of Jesus to hell. But still, these people were denied their chance to get to heaven which seems mighty unfair.

[–] modeler@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

The reference if you haven't seen it.

Dara Ó Briain is a legend!

[–] modeler@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

If you're pushing everyone's buttons it'll end badly.

[–] modeler@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Two more examples: Dredd and Ex Machina.

[–] modeler@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

That was one of the original proposed mechanisms to explain how the (obviously false) autism was caused.

But since then, since thiomersal was removed, other 'causes' and moral issues have been invented, including cells from abortions.

The one that makes me laugh the most is that it's terrible that the poor poor baby is exposed to so many illnesses (measles, mumps, rubella, polio, tetanus, notovirus, rotovirus and more) in such a short space of time, it's no wonder the poor dear's immune system is compromised. And then the same mother drops the kid off at daycare and exposes the poor dear to all those viruses and more - and live viruses at that.

There is no bleeding logic, just feels. And they get so angry at the fake harm that medicine is causing, and simultaneously actually causing real harms to real people.

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