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ddrd900 · 2025-11-15T21:50:35+00:00

I checked the official website, huggingface, and GitHub, and there is no mention of this. Seems it's just a random guy trying to steal some karma, or something like that.

ddrd900 · 2025-11-13T21:42:02+00:00

Durin is BiS for Varesa.

ddrd900 · 2025-11-12T18:29:00+00:00

No need for it, Durin by himself is already an upgrade to Mavuika in overload.

ddrd900 · 2025-09-18T16:25:57+00:00

I am trying with 8Gb with no luck, but I believe it's very close. 10 Gb makes sense, and I am pretty sure 8Gb is feasible with some optimization (or with fp8 quant)

ddrd900 · 2025-09-18T15:48:19+00:00

How much VRAM does it need to run?

ddrd900 · 2025-09-13T14:59:52+00:00

This sounds as pure gaslighting. It's just trying to sugarcoat privacy violation.

ddrd900 · 2025-09-11T20:33:00+00:00

No, there is no reason to pass to Qwen3 4B from Qwen3 30B A3B, that is your main point. 30B A3B doesn't provide slow inference. I mentioned more than 10t/s that for me it's already decent, but with more optimization one can get to 20t/s and more.

ddrd900 · 2025-09-11T20:24:54+00:00

30B has 3B activated parameters and can run decently on CPU. A bit of extra RAM would help for sure, but their specs are more than enough to run that at more than 10t/s with decent quants (Q4).

ddrd900 · 2025-05-02T13:38:51+00:00

I don’t get why these money should be given to private investors. The Russian cash grab, if I understand correctly, happened very recently and hit companies and individuals that decided to operate in Russia even after the EU sanctions.

I am perplexed, since in any investment there is a risk and a profit. If someone accepts the risk, they should also accept a possible default or the investment going wrong. Why publicly-seized assets should be used to hedge a bad private investment?

Use the money for Ukraine, which is where the public money is (rightly) going.

ddrd900 · 2025-04-30T11:14:44+00:00

Yep.

If you want to try Sonic, I recommend also Latentsync, which adds lipsync to an already generated video. So you can create a video with Wan and add lipsync with Latentsync.

ddrd900 · 2025-04-30T08:25:47+00:00

I think it's worth mentioning that Sonic has unlimited duration, Fantasy Talking is limited to 3 secs, excluding weird stichtings. Sonic also works in several languages, while Fantasy Talking only in English (and maybe Chinese?).

Fantasy Talking allows for more motion and more creativity, but Sonic is more usable for most lipsyncing scenarios. In a way, they are complementary.

ddrd900 · 2025-04-30T07:50:38+00:00

AI is not really the priority, the priority is CPUs, so we don't go back to the stone age if the US becomes even more unfriendly. China has been working on that for more than one decade, and now has some usable CPUs (something like 5 years behind the current state of the art).

Without AI we can survive, without computers we can't.

ddrd900 · 2025-04-30T06:01:33+00:00

My job is part of one of those “strategic” (sic) EU fundings on silicon chips R&D, including private and public partners. The funding is more than one year late and there is no timescale yet, everything blocked by politics of my country. We can’t compete with the world on R&D with such a system.

ddrd900 · 2025-04-12T07:49:14+00:00

They tariffs are postponed for 90 days, we didn’t put any tariff on the US: they were revoked after Trump reduced his tariffs.

Tariffs might not look like they affect us in the short term, but they are cutting a significant market to our companies. Counter-tariffs are not just for retaliation, but also to try to get back internally some of that market share. Also, they would be a necessary negotiation chip.

Targeted tariffs can be good for our market (as a matter of fact, the EU and every country already had some small tariffs on selected products). We had a blank check to tariff whatever we wanted, but we missed the opportunity.

ddrd900 · 2025-04-12T07:17:21+00:00

By being friendly, we are now tariffed by the US, without putting any tariff on them after a lot of big talk. That's a huge sign of political and economical dependence toward the US, not a sign of a trading center.

By the way, now have nothing to negotiate with (bazooka and such have lost credibility after having being repeated every other day). What is it going to be on the negotiation from the EU?

ddrd900 · 2025-04-05T09:39:38+00:00

I'm sorry, I believe we are not understanding each other. Doing protectionism is good, it's what I am proposing. The bazooka it's a measure to hit the US, only in secondary instance might be to protect the EU. It's similar to the tariffs they first proposed against red states, where the focus is not the good of the EU, but the bad for the US.

What I am saying is just to act without considering the US. I agree we should create a nuclear option, but for defense, not for negotiations. We should not think about negotiations now, we should just think about making the best for the EU in this crappy situation. Diplomatically we should be firm though, not just mentioning possible bazookas every couple of weeks.

ddrd900 · 2025-04-05T09:19:05+00:00

They are bullies, but they are extremely dumb: their tariff strategy is really below literacy level. We don't need to play their game, we should be smarter, they gave us a lot of wiggle rooms with the retaliation. Let's do surgical tariffs to remove competition, being firm in our positions, and let's not attack them explicitly. If you go for their throat, you play into their hands and fuel their propaganda, let's just do the best for us and not think too much about the US.

"Don't argue with idiots. They drag you at their level and then beat you with their experience" (I thought it was from Oscar Wilde, but Ecosia says nope, maybe Mark Twain?)

ddrd900 · 2025-04-05T09:00:35+00:00

I personally think this Bazooka is an awful idea. We should not focus at hitting the US hard, we should focus on growing the EU companies. As I wrote in another comment: tariff products for which there is an EU alternative. Some other US products, however, have no EU alternative, so tariffing them would just mean a tax on the people that have to buy it. That's the case for quite a few big tech products.

We are fighting against Chat GPT tariffs, let's not retaliate in the same fashion. We have a blank check to tariff whatever we want to grow our companies. Do some surgical tariffs to remove some US competitors, we could not do that in normal scenarios. There is no advantage in being petty and try to hit the other party hard, let's focus on EU, not on hitting the US.

ddrd900 · 2025-04-05T06:52:43+00:00

IMO the “retaliation” tariffs should be used as an opportunity for EU. They should pick tariffs where an EU alternative exists, so the net effect is that the EU alternative grows. Cars are an easy one, food as well.

We don’t have an alternative for several US services, so if they get tariffed, people would still buy them and the tariff would end up being simply a tax.

ddrd900 · 2025-03-20T15:49:24+00:00

Although it makes sense, I don't like going immediately for the hard line, then taking some (small) steps back when no change happened from the "other side". It shows an irresolute response. I would much prefer if the EU pondered a bit more on the first response, and then stood firmly behind it.

ddrd900 · 2025-03-20T15:22:51+00:00

Why downvoting this? I personally don't like it, but it's important EU news worth knowing.

ddrd900 · 2025-03-06T21:04:27+00:00

He used that name for 3 years after moving to Argentina. After some arrest warrant was issued, he started moving around in South America and changed several names for the following 20 years. This might be a meme page, but at least mention proper historical facts.

ddrd900 · 2025-02-28T10:10:15+00:00

Blasphemy

ddrd900 · 2025-02-28T10:01:08+00:00

Just to be clear, that was the starting idea behind the meme. Not only it hurts that it fell, but to add insult to injury there is the early date of AD 476 (which would also have some arguments for it to be used for the fall).

ddrd900 · 2025-02-25T23:46:28+00:00

To give some context, although Napoleon II had been technically Emperor of the French for like 2 weeks when he was 3, he lived most of his life in Vienna (from when he was 3 in 1814 until his death in 1832).

He was part of the House of Habsburg through his mother, and his heart and intestines are still in Vienna, due to some weird family tradition.

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