Microsoft’s new large language model (LLM) puts significantly less strain on hardware than other LLMs—and it’s free to experiment with. The 1-bit LLM (1.58-bit, to be more precise) uses -1, 0, and 1 ...

Magnetic Core memory was the RAM at the heart of many computer systems through the 1970s, and is undergoing something of a resurgence today since it is easiest form of memory for an enterprising ...

Linux programs, when they misbehave, produce core dumps. The reason they have that name is that magnetic core memory was the primary storage for computers back in the old days and many of us still ...

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