And they do so because there are stupid people buying their shit. Pretty simple.
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Harlehatschi@lemmy.mlto Technology@lemmy.world•Nvidia CEO praises Trump move to scrap some AI export curbsEnglish283·5 months agoJust when you thought Nvidia couldn’t get worse, they praise Trump.
Harlehatschi@lemmy.mlto Technology@lemmy.world•Algorithm based on LLMs doubles lossless data compression ratesEnglish1·5 months agoBut spending a lot of processing power to gain smaller sizes matters mostly in cases you want to store things long term. You probably wouldn’t want to keep the exact same LLM with the same weightings and stuff around in that case.
Harlehatschi@lemmy.mlto Technology@lemmy.world•Algorithm based on LLMs doubles lossless data compression ratesEnglish2·5 months agoYe but that would limit the use cases to very few. Most of the time you compress data to either transfer it to a different system or to store it for some time, in both cases you wouldn’t want to be limited to the exact same LLM. Which leaves us with almost no use case.
I mean… cool research… kinda… but pretty useless.
Harlehatschi@lemmy.mlto Technology@lemmy.world•Algorithm based on LLMs doubles lossless data compression ratesEnglish71·5 months agoOk so the article is very vague about what’s actually done. But as I understand it the “understood content” is transmitted and the original data reconstructed from that.
If that’s the case I’m highly skeptical about the “losslessness” or that the output is exactly the input.
But there are more things to consider like de-/compression speed and compatibility. I would guess it’s pretty hard to reconstruct data with a different LLM or even a newer version of the same one, so you have to make sure you decompress your data some years later with a compatible LLM.
And when it comes to speed I doubt it’s nearly as fast as using zlib (which is neither the fastest nor the best compressing…).
And all that for a high risk of bricked data.
Harlehatschi@lemmy.mlto memes@lemmy.world•What do you think will the tech bros jump on next?91·6 months agoProgrammers can double their productivity and increase quality of code?!? If AI can do that for you, you’re not a programmer, you’re writing some HTML.
We tried AI a lot and I’ve never seen a single useful result. Every single time, even for pretty trivial things, we had to fix several bugs and the time we needed went up instead of down. Every. Single. Time.
Best AI can do for programmers is context sensitive auto completion.
Another thing where AI might be useful is static code analysis.
Harlehatschi@lemmy.mlto Not the Onion@lemmy.ml•Trump brags about making billionaires even richer12·6 months agoI’m quite anti-violence but at this point please just go for some other approach…
Harlehatschi@lemmy.mlto Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml•Does this exist anywhere outside of C++?2·6 months agoYes I agree on that. A lot of people write “C with classes” and then complain…
Harlehatschi@lemmy.mlto Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml•Does this exist anywhere outside of C++?1·6 months agoI’m a full time C++ developer, mostly doing high performance data processing and some visualization and TUI tools, and as someone loving C++, it’s not as simple as you frame it. In sufficiently complex code you still have to deal with these problems. Rust has some good mechanisms in place to avoid these and there are things on the way for c++26 though.
But if your tool chain is worth anything the size of each binary shouldn’t be bigger. To oversimplify things a bit: it’s just #ifdefs and a proper tool chain.
In the web development world on the other hand everything was always awful. Every nodejs package has half the world as dependencies…
Harlehatschi@lemmy.mlto Linux@lemmy.ml•EU OS: A Fedora-based distro 'for the public sector'31·7 months agoNo, because forking a distro and updating some hundred thousands of PCs is not done in a week.
Edit: and why would we go with Ubuntu…
Harlehatschi@lemmy.mlto Technology@lemmy.world•France and Germany, in joint collaboration, have developed a Google Docs alternative - and its awesome! (Netherlands are currently onboarded)English1·7 months agoLiving under a rock eh?
Why not blame both?