People end up thinking Apple invented something because they tend to make the first usable version of something that could appeal to the general population.
...are we going to pretend smartphones didn't exist before iPhone was launched? I think I was on my 3rd one when the iPhone came out and even then it was a luxury toy for the rich, I didn't know anyone who actually had an iPhone for a good few years after they came out.
> People end up thinking Apple invented something because they tend to make the first usable version
I think we can all agree that the original iPhone is the conceptual progenitor of virtually every phone that’s mattered in the market since it was released.
Smartphones prior to it have essentially zero descendants. For all intents and purposes they effectively did invent the smartphone. Hell “smartphones” as a distinct market all but don’t even exist any more. They’re barely even “phones” at this point. And this entire arc of development points directly back to the original iPhone release.
...because you said so? I'm assuming you will say Palms also don't count? Blackberries neither? Phones running Windows Mobile weren't really smartphones? Let me guess - nothing that wasn't an iPhone counts?
True, I would never argue the iPhone wasn't a transformational step-up in usability that made smartphones a mainstream device category thanks to the App Store and slab screen with multi-touch.
But at the same time.... I had been doing nearly everything the iPhone could do in terms of raw functionality (plus plenty of stuff that took 1+ years to land on iPhones) on multiple different Windows Mobile and Palm smartphones pre-iPhone.
Saying pre-iPhone smartphones don't count because "ugly nerdphone with gross keyboard" is just as ridiculous as a "iPhone was overhyped and no better than existing smartphones" claim.
Apple created a device category within smartphones that then consumed and became what we now think of as a "smartphone" after iPhone and Android together strangled the first movers.
Like, the famous Steve Jobs "an iPod, a phone, an internet communicator" line was just listing standard smartphone features by that point. More or less the definition of a smartphone in fact.
Agreed. To add to this - saying that iPhones were the first version of smartphones that people actually wanted is silly - there was clearly a huge demand for these kinds of devices by the time iPhone came out.
None of these were more than a blip in the market. Nothing today even remotely resembles these devices, inherits design language from them, or points back in any way to them. They are historical dead ends and nearly irrelevant.
Meanwhile the majority of people on earth own one or multiple devices that are more or less clones of the original iPhone, only faster, larger, thinner, and exponentially more capable.
Honest question - were you actually an adult using smartphones when the first iPhone came out? Or are you basing your opinion on what you read on the internet?
Because by the time of the iPhone coming out everyone j knew had a Blackberry or some internet connected Nokia slider - the iPhone was significantly less capable than either of those. And yeah, both Nokia and Blackberry screwed the pooch. But again, pretending like smartphones didn't exist or that they were a "blip in the market" is intellectually dishonest, or like I said - based on what you read not based on actual lived experience. Unless you live in the US iPhones were a curiosity for years, a status symbol.
Rocket League was a sequel to Super Sonic Rocket Powered Battle Cars which was a totally new game but born from the studio building VehicleMod for Unreal Tournament.
We're talking about hit games created specifically as a sequel to a hit mod of another game, and communication to the community of the hit mod that this is where the developers are going, and that they should move to the standalone game if they want to thank the developers for all that unpaid work they did on the mod over the years.
Can a benchmark meant as a joke not use a fun interpretation of results? The Qwen result has far better style points. Fun sunglasses, a shadow, a better ground, a better sky, clouds, flowers, etc.
If we want to get nitty gritty about the details of a joke, a flamingo probably couldn't physically sit on a unicycle's seat and also reach the pedals anyways.
I just wanted to express gratitude to you guys, you do great work. However, it is a little annoying to have to redownload big models though and keeping up with the AI news and community sentiment is a full time job. I wish there was some mechanism somewhere (on your site or Huggingface or something) for displaying feedback or confidence in a model being "ready for general use" before kicking off 100+ GB model downloads.
1. Split metadata into shard 0 for huge models so 10B is for chat template fixes - however sometimes fixes cause a recalculation of the imatrix, which means all quants have to be re-made
2. Add HF discussion posts on each model talking about what changed, and on our Reddit and Twitter
3. Hugging Face XET now has de-duplication downloading of shards, so generally redownloading 100GB models again should be much faster - it chunks 100GB into small chunks and hashes them, and only downloads the shards which have changed
Best policy is to just wait a couple of weeks after a major model is released. It's frustrating to have to re-download tens or hundreds of GB every few days, but the quant producers have no choice but to release early and often if they want to maintain their reputation.
Ideally the labs releasing the open models would work with Unsloth and the llama.cpp maintainers in advance to work out the bugs up front. That does sometimes happen, but not always.
We do get early access to nearly all models, and we do find the most pressing issues sometimes. But sadly some issues are really hard to find and diagnose :(
I suspect the OP made a mistake and forgot the word “not” in “I'm accusing Apple of lying, but I'd like to get more context than” (otherwise the “but” makes little sense).
I expect they are asking in good faith if there are audits, not accusing the auditors of being corrupt.
It really comes down to whether we trust Apple to do the work; auditors can be found that will certify anything you need even if not at the fraud levels of Arthur Anderson.
And this kind of thing can be hard to independently verify.
Given Apple’s track record I suspect they actually do care about this internally and spend the effort to make sure it is “real”.
I don't expect absolute perfection from Apple but I think they are putting in good faith effort towards these improvements and are just proud of their accomplishments.
If it was strictly a feel-good PR effort then that would have the complete opposite effect if their environmental claims were found to be fabricated, and it would just take one whistleblower anywhere in their own staff, their auditing teams, or anywhere in their global supply chain to bring down that whole facade.
You also have to consider the outside intervention forcibly imposed upon Germany, after being defeated in war both times, and how the first round of that contributed directly to WWII. It's not exactly a playbook to copy verbatim.
That describes someone with maybe an irresponsible but manageable gambling habit, not a gambling addict.
Maybe it's because of pay-at-the-pump popularity now but have you never seen someone standing off to the side of the main gas station counter surrounded by a pile of scratch offs? People exist who will drop their entire paycheck on them in a single day. I've also seen people buy irresponsibly large stacks of Powerball tickets and not just the "oh, I like to fantasize about winning so I buy a ticket each week since you can't win if you don't play". It's gambling all the same.
I'm still impressed by the progress in interpretability, I remember being quite pessimistic that we'd achieve even what we have today (and I recall that being the consensus in ML researchers at the time). In other words, while capabilities have advanced at about the pace I expected from the GPT-2/3 days, mechanistic interpretability has advanced even faster than I'd hoped for (in some ways, we are very far from completely understanding the ways LLMs work).
You can buy a full day's worth of energy storage with an array of LiFePO4 batteries for less than the typical 3% estimate of annual home improvement and maintenance costs you should be budgeting for as a homeowner. The cost problem usually comes from the labor and every solar installation company seemingly being ran by scam artists.
Hmm you might be able to tweak the settings further. Under llama.cpp on one RTX 6000 Pro I get ~215 tok/s generation speed. The key for me was setting min_p greater than 0. My settings:
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