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  • BB84@mander.xyzOPtoMemes@lemmy.mlsomeone teach them LaTeX
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    13 days ago

    The only times anyone would use the asterisk as multiplication symbol are

    • they are doing some fancy math and it’s not the same kind of number multiplication we’re familiar with
    • they are on a computer, the keyboard does not have a (×) key, and they don’t know how to typeset it (\times in LaTex), so they just use the asterisk instead

    The US government falls in the second category.









  • Stop depending on these proprietary LLMs. Go to !localllama@sh.itjust.works.

    There are open-source LLMs you can run on your own computer if you have a powerful GPU. Models like OLMo and Falcon are made by true non-profits and universities, and they reach GPT-3.5 level of capability.

    There are also open-weight models that you can run locally and fine-tune to your liking (although these don’t have open-source training data or code). The best of these (Alibaba’s Qwen, Meta’s llama, Mistral, Deepseek, etc.) match and sometimes exceed GPT 4o capabilities.