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>Who would have thought that vectorized linear algebra will be at the center of so much financial speculation?

Wait till you hear that a bunch of meat[1] is behind all said speculation.

[1]https://stuff.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/thi...


I can run 4bit on a beat up 1070 ti. GP talks about higher precision models


You wouldn’t be able to fit the whole model into 8GB VRAM. It’s faster than not using a GPU at all, but most of it would still be computed on the CPU.


IME ollama ran mixtral on a 1070 fast enough.


Though it most probably does not run in on the 1070 but rather on the cpu. It cannot fit on a 1070, it is not about speed, a 1070 cannot run it period.


In llama.cpp You can offload some of the layers to gpu with -ngl X. Where x is the number of layers


You got a reference to back that up?



Yes, this is the first I've heard of this but I would be interested in learning about it.


Psilocybin is a partial 5-HT2B receptor agonist. 5-HT2B receptor agonism causes deposits of collagen in heart valves (which will lead to valve disease). This is true for LSD, MDMA, and psilocybin.

A note is that psilocybin is only a partial agonist, and the dosages taken for micro-dosing may not be comparable to something like fenfluramine (a drug which does cause heart valve dysfunction for certain). There was a drug nerds thread lying around on Reddit where the theoretical receptor activations were compared. IIRC, psilocybin is not a major risk, as long as you're not tripping every day for months on end.


The risk comes from taking the 2b agonist regularly, that's why it causes fibrosis. Not only is taking the larger dose safer as long as there are no preexisting cardiovascular issues but microdosing has been shown to be no better than placebo

Microdoses also don't inspire hippocampal neurogenesis whereas larger doses do

Microdosing is not only not beneficial but it may be actively harmful

"...it is possible that chronic microdosing may carry a risk of fibrosis and VHD, which should be assessed in future studies. There is converging evidence that simulation of the 5-HT2BR over several months may lead to the development of fibrosis. Duration of intake plays a major role in drug-induced VHD, even if the substance is not taken daily (Connolly et al., 1997; Schade et al., 2007)."

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/02698811231225...


Move to another country. Open a LLC and work as a contractor via your firm. Bootstrap a B2B startup, you seem to have valuable skills you can bring to market. There are many solutions but they do require you to make a hard trade off.


> Move to another country.

Your plan sounded perfect except for the complete infeasibility of it. Countries don't let felons from other countries immigrate.


thank you for that, it can be really frustrating to get suggestions when people don't even know what they're suggesting.

Lets say a felon immigrates to germany. their policy is they won't ask. but if they find out you were a felon in the US, at any point in your life, they will immediately deport you. and your life in germany however much you built, is forfeit. yay! at any point in time.

that is not an acceptable risk


People underestimate how easily they can travel and how it’s really just a privilege.

You end up on a no fly list or become a convicted felon and that’s it, your life of travel is snuffed out.

I really feel for the OP.


This is not necessarily true. Speaking from experience as a DUI felon (no other charges) I have traveled to multiple countries in the EU, UK, Thailand, Costa Rica, Mexico and Dominican Republic. The only country that has denied me entry is Canada.

This likely depends on the felony of course. A DUI in which no harm/damage occurred is probably the lesser of the felonies.


In some of those countries isn’t DUI basically culturally acceptable?


moving to another country isn't an option. the only ones I'd be willing to go to won't let felons in. I can't even drive to canada 10 miles from where I live, here at the border, to see friends. no felons are allowed in canada for life. they will arrest you immediately for trying, signs for it everywhere.

I have an LLC. I'm a published author, but sales are nothing I could live off of.

I'm not sure I have what it takes to bootstrap a b2b. It's why I like working with others. I literally enjoy helping other people solve problems. I was an SRE two positions ago and I took on the IT role for an extra 5k/year. and I happily answered calls to change peoples passwords, because it was a small company. and everyone really respected each other. everyone was grateful. I had cards all over my wall that people sent me, thank you cards. covering half of it by the end. this is what I need in life, all I need. I'm old enough now to know the difference between wants and needs.


When I moved to the Netherlands to start a company, they only looked back 10 years for a background check to get the visa. I highly recommend leaving the country and starting completely fresh if the algorithms got you fucked.


What is relevant now?


PyTorch has the nicest debugging experience. JAX is supposed to be powerful too, but I'm skeptical of its static graph which is what made TensorFlow such a chore. I'm whishful about Mojo, in theory it sounds great.


On the contrary, that's why I find Keras 3 interesting (although I don't see myself switching anytime soon). It supports both PyTorch and JAX, and Keras Core models/layers can be used interchangeably with PyTorch modules: https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/1697020631752298982


I use keras for CV but for DL at work, we started moving towards pytorch and closely following modular.


That is also experiencing downtime as it just calls openai api?


Did you just speedrun Godwin's law?


Godwin's on record saying it's fine to make the comparison sometimes.

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a56987/godwin-law...

> Godwin wrote on Facebook that someone had asked him to post a statement about Charlottesville, because people bring up his law to shut down arguments all the time. Turns outhe was happy to oblige. "By all means, compare these shitheads to the Nazis," he wrote. "Again and again. I'm with you."

> In general, Godwin has always said you can bring up the Nazis in an online conversation, as long as you're doing some research first. "If you're thoughtful about it and show some real awareness of history, go ahead and refer to Hitler or Nazis when you talk about Trump. Or any other politician," he wrote in The Washington Post backin 2015. But in the case of the white supremacists in Virginia, there's no research necessary to make that comparison. The facts speak for themselves.


When referring to actual Nazis, using the word "Nazi" is acceptable.

Incredible that needs to be said, but here we are.


there's a parable of a Nazi bar, that was made famous ironically with a tweet.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Nazi_bar

> From an anecdote shared by Michael B. Tager (@IamRageSparkle) on Twitter in July 2020. In the multi-tweet thread, Tager recounted visiting a "shitty crustpunk bar", where he saw a patron abruptly expelled. The bartender explained that the man was wearing "iron crosses and stuff", and that he feared such patrons would become regulars and start bringing friends if not promptly kicked out, which would lead him to realize "oh shit, this is a Nazi bar now" only after the unwanted patrons became too "entrenched" to kick out without trouble


Exactly. That's the whole ideea to begin with - destroy the state monopoly. Of course the state sees it as an existential threat, because it is.


So just because it helps some people with hard lives survive, you still hate it because some shitty traders talk too much about it?


Yes, I don't condone crypto the same way I don't condone carrying guns to a bank (because you can't trust anyone), or building nuclear shelters on the off chance of a nuclear fallout, or building EM bombs in the escalating nature of warring nations in deadlock.

Whether you like it or not, things have external cost to them. "Let's spend a trillion dollar building a bunker for every citizen in the event that a nuclear fallout do happen". "Let's give everyone AC because its getting hot...and will keep getting hotter because we keep installing ACs". All of these things are "good" but people very rarely talk about their externalities.

There's a thing called "opportunity cost", "externalities" that no crypto bros ever brought up when discussing how bad their system compared to the current system.

Should we sacrifice the relatively very efficient global financial with one that can barely handle a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of its precursor? What about user protection? Correct me if I am wrong, but it is perfectly possible to lose all of your coins due to fraud and there would be no way to recover it back. How is this even a reasonable financial system?


I'm not sure your argument makes any sense.... So you're saying it's not about the absolute mathematical results of the poll, but more about the feelings of the general population?


Of course it is about the feelings of the general population!

The feelings of the general population decide whether you have a stable democracy or a revolution on your hands.

There are no objective laws of physics when it comes to organizing society, no objective reality, only the perception of reality.


It's both, the methods by which the election is made secure and accurate should be understandable by most people. Most people don't understand cryptography and cybersecurity.


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