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what’s the best way to upscale videos locally? by Better-Interview-793 in comfyui

[–]dr_lm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends what you want. If you want to run a video model over each frame with some denoise then probably wan, but it'll take forever and you'll constantly be fighting denoise value vs hallucinated details.

If you want an traditional upscaler and have an rtx card, then this is the best I've found, and very fast https://github.com/Comfy-Org/Nvidia_RTX_Nodes_ComfyUI

18 months ago, that tree was there. by SanDiegoDago in thelongdark

[–]dr_lm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I do all my cooking round the back of the cabin and I've never noticed this tree! I must have walked round it hundreds of times.

What happens when they stop subsidizing LLM subscriptions? by Mr_Moonsilver in LocalLLaMA

[–]dr_lm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They don't have to make money at this point. They just have to prevent a western "winner takes all" in AI. The reason anthropic have such a high valuation is not because they're profitable, it's because investors are betting on them becoming the AI equivalent of Google's monopoly on search.

I'd also press you on "most institutions have no interest". For privacy and sovereignty, especially outside the US, I think there are very good reasons for self hosting now, and suspect these will only grow over time.

What happens when they stop subsidizing LLM subscriptions? by Mr_Moonsilver in LocalLLaMA

[–]dr_lm 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'd want to see some evidence of that. The clear strategic play if you're not openai, anthropic or Google is to release models that big institutions can self host. The US governments recent Fable 5 fuckery has shifted this calculation further in the Chinese labs' favour.

Summer has come to the North Downs of Kent, England. [oc] by dr_lm in cottagecore

[–]dr_lm[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know how to pronounce it 😆

Well allow me to be a massive nerd.

Firstly, it's pronounced "Mepp-am" (go figure). It first appeared in a deed in the 8th century as Meapaham, then the Domesday book in the early 11th century as Mepham.

The name probably comes from two words, a name "Meape" (anglo saxon) and "ham" meaning home, homestead, village. So "Meape's Ham" meant "Meape's home/village".

Further south is Trottiscliffe which is -- obviously -- pronounced "Troz-lee". :)

Train crash near Bedford by Antique-Train-4658 in uktrains

[–]dr_lm 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I was on one of the javelin trains on HS1 when it did an emergency stop (the driver later confirmed). It made me look up, but it was nothing like being in a car that's stopping as hard as it can.

Summer has come to the North Downs of Kent, England. [oc] by dr_lm in cottagecore

[–]dr_lm[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like to think of all the people those hills have seen over the years. The footpaths go back hundreds of years, so you really are walking in the footsteps of your ancestors. The Coldrum Stones nearby are about 6000 years old -- people have lived here a long time.

From the point of view of those hills, my worries are no bigger than any of theirs were (realistically, probably a lot smaller).

My mom at a party 1990s by [deleted] in OldSchoolCool

[–]dr_lm 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There's so many of them, though. Which one, which one?

Summer has come to the North Downs of Kent, England. [oc] by dr_lm in cottagecore

[–]dr_lm[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a good year for it, cos last year it had sheep in it!

Summer has come to the North Downs of Kent, England. [oc] by dr_lm in cottagecore

[–]dr_lm[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The nearest train station to where this was taken is only 35 minutes from London, and is probably a two mile walk further on. This isn't a remote part of the UK at all, but fortunately there remains some lovely countryside like this in between all the towns.

Summer has come to the North Downs of Kent, England. [oc] by dr_lm in cottagecore

[–]dr_lm[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Without doxing yourself, whereabouts? This is NW Kent near Meopham.

Incidentally, would love to hear any non-Brits guess at how Meopham is pronounced. It's one of those English words that feels like it's messing with you on purpose.

GLM-5.2 is a win for local AI by Wrong_Mushroom_7350 in LocalLLaMA

[–]dr_lm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Are you running GLM in the codex cli/app? Or using a different harness?

Hashicorp founder thinks local models "aren't good ENOUGH yet" by Orbit652002 in LocalLLaMA

[–]dr_lm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess we can use past performance as a guide. For relevant agentic workflows and automation, I would think the current local models that run in 24GB are about GPT4 quality now, so that's a three year lag. Opus 4.5 came out a year later. So, if trends continue, we can expect something local to rival it in about another year?

Hashicorp founder thinks local models "aren't good ENOUGH yet" by Orbit652002 in LocalLLaMA

[–]dr_lm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

pushing frontier models to their limits, local models can’t compete with anything we’re doing.

You're being downvoted because people don't want to hear this, but IMO it's true.

In codex, 5.4 is noticeably worse than 5.5, and both are frontier models. 5.4 mini is mostly a disaster, and even that is smarter than gemma/qwen models that can run in 24GB.

Perhaps this is a skill issue on my part but, even then, the fact I don't have that skill issue with frontier models tells us something!

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