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jonatron··on New iMac with M6
After arguing and back and forth with Claude (not straight away), it found a kv streaming fork of llama https://github.com/achyudh/llama.cpp and an interesting ascii only model Qwen3.8-27B-ASCII-Condensed-UD-IQ4_XS.gguf . It's running, i'll see how it goes.
jonatron··on New iMac with M6
Can share a good way of running Qwen 3.8 27B (or similar) on 16GB VRAM? I've been trying but I end up with either a heavily quantized model or a small context or a slow speed.
jonatron··on A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis
It gave me a very helpful answer, my project will be improving just because I asked.
jonatron··on A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis
It's cool that there's an in-browser skin classifier...but it says "It is not a state-of-the-art model". The obvious question is, is there a free in browser state-of-the-art model?
jonatron··on No signs of AI payoff outside the tech sector
I'm a dev not a video or 3D guy, but I'm looking at people I used to know and also some youtube doom-scrolling, the blender MCP, cinema 4D MCP, and seeing that it's a big impact
jonatron··on No signs of AI payoff outside the tech sector
In video production, 3D modelling, editing etc, I think a lot of jobs are disappearing, with cost dropping. Not data backed, just from what I can see.
jonatron··on France's supermarket fridges were vulnerable online for months
Yep, and you can prompt something like "the function was a decompiled version, translate it into a readable version", if you don't like reading [probably] ghidra output.
jonatron··on The United Kingdom generates less electricity per person than in the 1970s
Yeah, I bought an inverter from eBay, and a battery from AliExpress. Also signed up to axle energy to reduce payback period. Most people would need an electrician to connect it though. If you just asked an electrician for a new circuit with a simple route to an isolator, it wouldn't be expensive.
jonatron··on The United Kingdom generates less electricity per person than in the 1970s
True, but if you get cheap power from solar for the rest of the year, and charge the battery from the grid off peak when there's no solar to charge, you should end up paying less than just the standard rate.
jonatron··on The United Kingdom generates less electricity per person than in the 1970s
Grid scale BESS (battery energy storage system) in the UK is growing fast, because it makes financial sense. There's one that just expanded from 100MWh/100Mw to 475MWh/350MW: https://www.pacificgreen.com/energy-parks/energy-park-case-s... . It's easy to run the numbers, easier to make a payback calculator with AI. Take a look at the Anker E5000 / Ecoflow Stream 5000, and run the numbers yourself, I'd be interested to see what the payback would be for you.
jonatron··on The United Kingdom generates less electricity per person than in the 1970s
Look into a battery + inverter + optional solar on a time of use tariff, you can be always off peak. Payback probably isn't very long.
jonatron··on Type-safe HTML templating in Zig
From what I can tell, apache mod_include and nginx SSI are still included by default?
jonatron··on Postgres isn't slow, your storage is
I can't be the only one that always has to set up a separate backup system in addition to the RDS automatic backups, because it uses a weird format and is slow.
jonatron··on Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s
With that hardware, I wouldn't waste my time at the moment.
jonatron··on So you think you could be an electrician?
On top of all this, electricians don't spend much time doing actual electrical work. Time is spent driving a van, doing metal work, cutting, drilling, crawling around tight spaces etc.
jonatron··on Extra Big Ass Intelligence
Using CSS marquee-scroll instead of the marquee tag just isn't right.
jonatron··on SparkyDraw – Simple-to-use, all-device drawing web app for children
What prompts, models and harness were used?
jonatron··on GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price
Probably just the singularity, no big deal
jonatron··on Show HN: Pac-Bench – How well can models one-shot a Pac-Man game?
Try coming up with something that doesn't exist yet on the web, one of the good models and a harness will be able to do it. Yes it's hard to believe but you can't deny the current reality.
jonatron··on Restoring 5 GHz Wi-Fi on an LG C5 by changing its webOS region
Maybe ask in the openlgtv discord if you want to know more about this sort of thing
jonatron··on Plug-In Solar Panels Starting to Sprout in U.S. Backyards
Well it's just a bonus on top, I'm not counting on it. Storing solar and backup is the primary reason for the battery. On June 24 at 19:00, agile octopus prices were about £0.85/kWh, there isn't a single simple price for electricity.
jonatron··on Plug-In Solar Panels Starting to Sprout in U.S. Backyards
I'm getting a battery soon so I can get paid £1/kWh to dump power at specific times with axle energy https://vpp.axle.energy/landing
jonatron··on Plug-in solar is coming. Plug-in batteries should follow
Can give free advice, contact in profile
jonatron··on Plug-in solar is coming. Plug-in batteries should follow
I don't see the point in panels without a battery, so I'm looking at a DIY system. RCBO for new circuit = £20, 5.12kWh battery = £700, ~3kW hybrid inverter from eBay ~=£400, Panels ~= £100 each. I'm not the including cost of a registered electrician for a new circuit in my case.
jonatron··on Judge Rejects Google's Attempt to DMCA Its Way Out of Being Scraped
It's quite important that SERPs are scrapeable, because they keep advertising scams like ETA/ESTA sites: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56886957
jonatron··on Some more things about Django I've been enjoying
True, but in this case with SQLite, there's unlikely to be much of a difference because there isn't the spare time available when waiting for a separate database server. I don't know what providers are good for a $10/month instance these days.
jonatron··on Some more things about Django I've been enjoying
A $10/month VM might only have a single thread anyway. Some providers like lightsail are really slow too.
jonatron··on Are AI Labs Pelicanmaxxing?
OK, so we've done animal_vehicle, how about new SVG ideas each time? I just tried "make an SVG of a man sitting in a chair at a computer behind a desk" which gives more interesting results than the animalVehicle test.
jonatron··on The shingles vaccine may reduce the risk of dementia
I got shingles after the covid vaccine, which is a rare but statistically highly significant risk: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35470920/ . Both covid and shingles sucked, luckily it was years ago now.
jonatron··on When AI Costs More Than the Engineer
Apples and oranges, or chalk and cheese. Why would you say apples and potatoes?
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