[gaogao]

It's fairly similar to a ROM patch in the video game space, which has mostly stood the test of time.

[0cf8612b2e1e]

With a ROM, you could at least make a claim that it was your backup copy. I have no such claims to Facebook’s model.

[SargeZT]

Researchers unaffiliated with Facebook are allowed to possess and use the original weights though, and they can make use of these weights.

[muyuu]

like that but requiring 60GBs of CPU RAM for some reason :-P

one has to wonder how did they implement the storage of those deltas to require that sort of RAM

[wongarsu]

For perspective, that's about $200-$250 of RAM on a desktop computer. They might just not have cared.

Though I expect somebody to write a patch to make this more accessible to people on laptops.