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apitman

13,777 karma · joined December 11, 2014

Software architect on the iobio team at the University of Utah Eccles Institute of Human Genetics. I'm passionate about the application of computer science to solving health problems. Hans Rosling is my hero.

Personal site:

apitman.com

Projects:

IndieBits.io - A community for data ownership, self-hosting, and decentralization.

LastLogin.net - A free, privacy-focused login provider

TakingNames.io - Domain names for self-hosters

boringproxy.io - Simple, e2ee tunneling proxy

droplock.apitman.com - Simple secure secret sharing

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apitman··on OpenRouter is joining Stripe
It's Netflix before the unbundling happened
apitman··on Cerebras CS-4
That's pretty sweet. Thanks
apitman··on GLM-5.3 Artificial Analysis Benchmarks
I'm sometimes tempted to use these sorts of proxies, but I always worry that the hacks they have to use to wrap the upstream tools and APIs is going to mess with my downstream harness/agent.
apitman··on Cerebras CS-4
What do they do with old ones? Their hardware physically can't run other models right?
apitman··on GLM-5.3 Artificial Analysis Benchmarks
You can turn on various levels of some of many of the models in the UI
apitman··on Qwen3.8 27B scores 52 on Artificial Analysis
Seems like that equation really should weight total params and active params differently
apitman··on Qwen3.8 27B scores 52 on Artificial Analysis
Very interesting. I was not expecting anything close to this.
apitman··on Qwen 3.8 27B
Currently software is king when it comes to inference performance though.
apitman··on Qwen 3.8 27B
You should be getting way more than that on a 6000 pro even today. I'm getting 40tok/s on a pair of 3060s. You can ask a SOTA model to optimize your setup for you.
apitman··on Qwen 3.8 27B
Aren't things like KV size inherent to the model?
apitman··on Qwen 3.8 27B
I wonder how this would stack up against 4x RTX 3060, assuming you have the physical room for them.
apitman··on Qwen 3.8 27B
Interesting. Why don't the unsloth guides (https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/qwen3.8) mention this? Do they already include the fixes in their GGUFs?
apitman··on Qwen 3.8 27B
Check out OpenCode Go as well. They give some Kimi K3, Qwen3.8 Max, and GLM5.2 (probably 5.3 soon?) usage which may cover your needs for $10/mo
apitman··on Qwen 3.8 27B
Yeah make sure you're using MTP and potentially tensor parallelism.
apitman··on Unsloth Qwen3.8-27B GGUF files
This is specifically about unsloth having day-1 GGUF's available.
apitman··on Qwen 3.8 27B
I used GPT-5.6 Sol high to optimize it, and it claimed it was getting 50. I'm seeing ~40 on my goto smoketest: "Make me a vector add in CUDA".

Funny side note. It successfully one shot the program, but it wasn't able to run it because there literally wasn't enough VRAM left to allocate CUDA memory. Watching it try to debug that was fascinating. I'm pretty sure it would have killed the llama-server (and thus itself) if it hadn't been running in a separate container.

apitman··on Qwen 3.8 27B
Running it on 2x3060 now. Works pretty well but VRAM is tight. 4bit quants. 1x128k context, 8bit KV, MTP on.
apitman··on DeepSeek peak/off-peak pricing update
The Luna price dropped the day before a massive update to Flash (0731 update). GP may be referring to that version.
apitman··on DeepSeek API Pricing Update
Look at OpenRouter. They have lots of providers
apitman··on DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
But why? Luna Max is almost the same intelligence as Terra xhigh and way way cheaper. And Terra max is almost the same as Sol high. I just don't really see a place for Terra but slower.
apitman··on DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
Wait people use terra?
apitman··on Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
Are there any projects that track how much usage of each model translates to how much percentage drop in weekly/5hr windows?
apitman··on Grok 4.6
https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/grok-4-6
apitman··on Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents
This is what I do. Nice benefit is it lets me passthrough my GPU and share it between multiple containers. Incus is awesome.
apitman··on Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents
Fun fact: QEMU runs natively on windows and supports acceleration with WHP. It works surprisingly well.
apitman··on DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
> OpenCode Go currently offers $120 for $10 on DeepSeek Flash v4

At DeepSeek's absurdly low rates or market rates?

apitman··on DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
I'm getting like 25 tok/s on 2x RTX Pro 6000. This is with llama.cpp, but I had GPT tune it for me. I was under the impression vLLM was at most ~2x faster, and usually for highly parallel loads. Any tips on where I should look first for an obvious blunder?

I'm guessing tensor parallelism or similar?

apitman··on DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
These are very interesting results, and honestly hard to believe, even as a big 0731 fan.

If I'm reading the chart correctly, a couple observations:

* deepseek-v4-flash-0731 max is better than kimi-k3 max

* glm-5.2 is dumber than a box of rocks (this must be on low reasoning or something, right?)

This is way more extreme than other results I'm seeing, like those from Artificial Analysis.

apitman··on DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
I've found it to be pretty good so far.
apitman··on DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
DeepSeek has far cheaper cache pricing. That's the difference.
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