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beastman82··on Nvidia – open-source auto-ontology
Dailect
beastman82··on Anthropic's internal AI use, at retail prices, now exceeds its employee pay
this is meaningless trivia as paying retail prices to yourself is nonsense.
beastman82··on Disney Raising Prices Days After Confirming Ads Will Now Show Up on Every Tier
there is nothing stopping anyone from canceling. They make an offer, you are free to refuse it
beastman82··on AWS Lambda Web Functions
It's the same idea however you characterize it.
beastman82··on AWS Lambda Web Functions
And appengine
beastman82··on RJ Mitte has died
I hope you can find peace. All the best to you
beastman82··on Functional Mechanical Sympathy [video]
100% right.

Martin Fowler cited Martin Thompson of LMAX who cited Sir Jackie Stewart of Formula One

beastman82··on Classified estimates show the NSA is paying billions to test AI models
that's probably the best money this country has ever spent
beastman82··on M5 Ultra Mac Studio Review
Off the top of my head, I'm guessing we're missing sparse attention. But I'll run your challenge through and see where the gaps are. I promise I'm telling the truth :)
beastman82··on M5 Ultra Mac Studio Review
at 15 tok/s
beastman82··on M5 Ultra Mac Studio Review
sure. so is 2x power worth 10x perf? I think it is in most cases.
beastman82··on M5 Ultra Mac Studio Review
can confirm.

I dont' know why people spend huge money on these and Spark. The 5090 is running qwen 3.8 at 200+ tps!! That's 1-2 orders of magnitude faster.

beastman82··on Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3
Til there are like 50 s3 clones
beastman82··on Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables
that's boxen in my case and I'm sure others
beastman82··on Bing Wallpaper showing Ad for Harry Potter and Fantastic beasts box set
Meanwhile, this site is covered with ads that are impossible to close
beastman82··on Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s
can't second ninfer enough. amazing tech
beastman82··on AI Agents and the Refactoring That Never Happens
I've had the opposite experience where we're refactoring the gnarliest shit anyone's ever seen because AI can actually understand it well enough to decompose, test, refactor, etc.
beastman82··on Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs
Genuinely curious why. I'm not a Googler and don't follow closely.
beastman82··on ChatGPT Work
It has a new name!
beastman82··on The revenge of the philosophy majors
Not sure if it changed but this is written by NYTimes.

FWIW I think the WSJ is the best news source available and does not match this description.

beastman82··on Orasort: 5x faster column-sorting with an expired patent from Oracle
patent: https://patents.google.com/patent/US7680791B2
beastman82··on Fable 5 Is Back
this is the idea of opusplan https://code.claude.com/docs/en/model-config#opusplan-model-...
beastman82··on BMW iX5 Blows Away the Competition with 460-KW Charging, 435-Mile Range
...except self driving, where Tesla and Waymo have enormous leads
beastman82··on Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development
I posted elsewhere but if you have more space try gemma4 31b
beastman82··on Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development
I second unsloth models. I'm using them over blackwell-oriented nvfp4 models as they are (empirically) top quality and performance.
beastman82··on Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development
FWIW I'm running gemma4 31b on my 5090 and it's pretty great as well.

QAT, MTP, 128k context.

I liked Qwen 3.6 27b too, it just seems that Gemma4 is a bit underrated.

beastman82··on NixOS 26.05
Chrome OS Flex has worked out nicely for my mother-in-law's potato
beastman82··on The best thing that has ever happened for multiplayer games
When you leave for the competition
beastman82··on Computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash
No UI like their competitors Claude CoWork or Codex. This is vaporware
beastman82··on Fox to buy Roku
what are the shield issues? I've had 2 of them for 10 years and I haven't noticed anything.
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