DeepSeek R1 reproduced for $30: Berkeley researchers replicate DeepSeek R1 for $30—casting doubt on H100 claims and controversy
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    • self@awful.systemsEnglish
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      15 hours ago

      you know I was having a slow day yesterday cause I only just caught on: you think we program GPUs in plain fucking C? absolute dipshit no notes

      • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
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        12 hours ago

        the wildest bit is that one could literally just … go do the thing. like you could grab the sdk and run through the tutorial and actually have babby’s first gpu program in not too long at all[0], with all the lovely little bits of knowledge that entails

        but nah, easier to just make some nonsense up out of thirdhand conversations misheard out of a gamer discord talking about a news post of a journalist misunderstanding a PR statement, and then confidently spout that synthesis

        [0] - I’m eliding “make the cuda toolchain run” for argument of simplicity. could just rent a box that has it, for instance

    • David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish
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      15 hours ago

      this user is just too smart for the average awful systems poster to deal with, and has been sent on his way to a more intellectual lemmy

    • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
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      21 hours ago

      yep, clueless. can’t tell a register apart from a soprano. and allocs? the memory’s right there in the machine, it has it already! why does it need an alloc!

      fuckin’ dipshit

      next time you want to do a stupid driveby, pick somewhere else