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Q6T46nT668w6i3m commented on No Graphics API   sebastianaaltonen.com/blo... · Posted by u/ryandrake
pjmlp · 7 days ago
I have followed Sebastian Aaltonen's work for quite a while now, so maybe I am a bit biased, this is however a great article.

I also think that the way forward is to go back to software rendering, however this time around those algorithms and data structures are actually hardware accelerated as he points out.

Note that this is an ongoing trend on VFX industry already, about 5 years ago OTOY ported their OctaneRender into CUDA as the main rendering API.

Q6T46nT668w6i3m · 7 days ago
But they still rely on fixed functions for a handful of essential ops (e.g., intersection).
Q6T46nT668w6i3m commented on CUDA-l2: Surpassing cuBLAS performance for matrix multiplication through RL   github.com/deepreinforce-... · Posted by u/dzign
krapht · 19 days ago
This is a standard which few kernels will ever meet. I'd say requiring a numerical proof is the same as requiring no proof at all - because it won't ever happen unless you're validating silicon or something equally expensive.
Q6T46nT668w6i3m · 19 days ago
I guess it depends on your definition of proof but I’d say the reasoning and justifications sections of a TOMS article qualifies and that’s a standard nearly every popular library meets.
Q6T46nT668w6i3m commented on CUDA-l2: Surpassing cuBLAS performance for matrix multiplication through RL   github.com/deepreinforce-... · Posted by u/dzign
j2kun · 19 days ago
They claim the algorithm "discovered" the new techniques, but the methods described in section 5 do not seem all that novel to me. It smells like it could be "laundering" the literature [1] and reshuffling existing techniques. This is not inherently a bad thing, but I would hope that if it is borrowing existing techniques, the appropriate citation would eventually make it into this paper.

[1]: https://www.argmin.net/p/lore-laundering-machines

Q6T46nT668w6i3m · 19 days ago
You’re not kidding. I just looked. There isn’t anything novel in that section. I assumed from the description they found novel methods but this is standard GPU Gems advice.
Q6T46nT668w6i3m commented on Games using anti-cheats and their compatibility with GNU/Linux or Wine/Proton   areweanticheatyet.com/... · Posted by u/doener
tonyhart7 · 23 days ago
what multiplayer (esports) game that can run on switch ????

fornite???? its not gonna be main playerbase

Q6T46nT668w6i3m · 23 days ago
Madden and NBA2K
Q6T46nT668w6i3m commented on Games using anti-cheats and their compatibility with GNU/Linux or Wine/Proton   areweanticheatyet.com/... · Posted by u/doener
hastily3114 · 23 days ago
Is there really no way to make anti-cheat on Linux that can't be bypassed? I don't know much about this, but it seems very difficult to make an anti-cheat for a platform where you can make changes in the kernel.
Q6T46nT668w6i3m · 23 days ago
Yeah. It’s an erosion of rights that doesn’t solve the problem. You only need one cheater to make a game feel bad and DMA devices or pixel tracking can’t be stopped with these anti-cheats.
Q6T46nT668w6i3m commented on Games using anti-cheats and their compatibility with GNU/Linux or Wine/Proton   areweanticheatyet.com/... · Posted by u/doener
999900000999 · 23 days ago
I'm ordering a new laptop to work on LLM stuff, and while I thought about jumping through the hoops to get Linux running with secure boot...

I had a realization, it's a cold day in hell when someone else is going to tell me what I can run on my computer. All the latest multiplayer games are now requiring secure boot on Win11 as well

I'm actually wary of all these anti-cheats, they're literally hyperinvasive maleware.

I don't need gaming that much.

And if I do I'll stream it with Gamepass or another cloud service.

Q6T46nT668w6i3m · 23 days ago
I was in a similar situation and ended up buying a PS5. It ended up being exactly what I wanted.
Q6T46nT668w6i3m commented on OpenAI may not use lyrics without license, German court rules   reuters.com/world/german-... · Posted by u/aiz0Houp
mock-possum · a month ago
I don’t read this as “don’t show we broke the law,” I read it as “don’t give the user the false impression that there’s any legal issue with this generated content.”

There’s nothing law breaking about quoting publicly available information. Google isn’t breaking the law when it displays previews of indexed content returned by the search algorithm, and that’s clearly the approach being taken here.

Q6T46nT668w6i3m · a month ago
Masked token prediction is reconstruction. It goes far beyond “quoting.”
Q6T46nT668w6i3m commented on OpenAI may not use lyrics without license, German court rules   reuters.com/world/german-... · Posted by u/aiz0Houp
rpdillon · a month ago
This is a point that I don't see discussed enough. I think anthropic decided to purchase books in bulk, tear them apart to scan them, and then destroy those copies. And that's the only source of copyrighted material I've ever heard of that is actually legal to use for training LLMs.

Most LLMs were trained on vast troves of pirated copyrighted material. Folks point this out, but they don't ever talk about what the alternative was. The content industries, like music, movies, and books, have done nothing to research or make their works available for analysis and innovation, and have in fact fought industries that seek to do so tooth and nail.

Further, they use the narrative that people that pirate works are stealing from the artists, where the vast majority of money that a customer pays for a piece of copyrighted content goes to the publishing industry. This is essentially the definition of rent seeking.

Those industries essentially tried to stop innovation entirely, and they tried to use the law to do that (and still do). So, other companies innovated over the copyright holder's objections, and now we have to sort it out in the courts.

Q6T46nT668w6i3m · a month ago
I don’t follow. You’re punishing the publishing industry by punishing authors?
Q6T46nT668w6i3m commented on OpenAI may not use lyrics without license, German court rules   reuters.com/world/german-... · Posted by u/aiz0Houp
admaiora · a month ago
And it's a question of do we accept breaking law for the possibility to have the greatest technological advancement of the 21st century. In my opinion, legal system has become a blocker for a lot of innovation, not only in AI but elsewhere as well.
Q6T46nT668w6i3m · a month ago
You’re willing to eliminate the entire concept of intellectual property for a possibility something might be a technological advancement? If creators are the reason you believe this advancement can be achieved, are you willing to provide them the majority of the profits?
Q6T46nT668w6i3m commented on OpenAI may not use lyrics without license, German court rules   reuters.com/world/german-... · Posted by u/aiz0Houp
rpdillon · a month ago
The content industries should have been the ones to invent LLMs, but their head is so stuck in the past and in regressive thinking about how they protect their revenue streams that they're incapable of innovating. Publishing houses should have been the ones to have researchers looking into how to computationally leverage their enormous corpus of data. But instead, they put zero dollars into actual research and development and paid the lawyers instead. And so it leads to attitudes like this.
Q6T46nT668w6i3m · a month ago
“The content industries.”

Why would people invest in destroying what they love?

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