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pulse7··on The Goose Programming Language
Educate me: how to create a program in Goose which reads a JSON structure, prints it out and finishes. How is memory for JSON allocated on stack? It can be from 1K to 1M - depending on the file...
pulse7··on Thelio Mira AI Linux Workstation: 192 GB GPU Memory
Prompt processing on Macs is VERY slow...
pulse7··on Training a 3.8B LLM to 0.384 CORE for $998
I hope we will soon have an open-source project for training such small LLMs where one can just pick the architecture (like Qwen / DeepSeek / etc.), parameter count, dataset, ... and then let it run on a local/rented GPUs...
pulse7··on IBM Unveils Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor for IBM Z and LinuxONE
"code translation in hardware" microcode is called "native"
pulse7··on RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better
So it's mostly the "Optionality". Like USB. And yet USB is everywhere...
pulse7··on Qwen 3.8 27B
It there anything similar for RTX 3090 and RTX 4090?
pulse7··on Qwen 3.8 27B
Can you please tell which Gemma 4 variant managed to correctly reason through your private benchmarks? Was is Gemma 4 31B?

What quantizations and context lengths did you use for Gemma 4 and Qwen 3.8 27B?

I am asking because I can't even load Gemma 4 31B on my GPU with any reasonable quantization (even with small context), while I can run Qwen 3.8 27B with large context and good quantization...

pulse7··on Qwen 3.8 27B
"--context-shift, --no-context-shift ... whether to use context shift on infinite text generation (default: disabled)"

From: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/blob/master/tools/serv...

pulse7··on GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities
It will come... all big hardware players (Intel, AMD, Broadcom) and dozens of startups (Tenstorrent, etc.) are working on it...
pulse7··on Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents
Hasn't Docker always been just a thin layer of duct tape over existing solutions?
pulse7··on Why Wall Street is ignoring big tech's debt [video]
You cannot wear out an SSD through AI inference alone. LLM weights are only read from the SSD, and read operations do not contribute to SSD wear. SSD wear is primarily caused by write and erase operations.
pulse7··on Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against overregulating open-weight models
Those are routers - not general purpose computers.
pulse7··on The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote (2010)
On the absolute limit of ethics? This is simply not ethical anymore...
pulse7··on Quickly rewrite Git repository history
The same here! Merged several repos into monorepo are retained full history!
pulse7··on Bonsai 27B (1-bit LLM): The First 27B-Class Model to Run on a Phone
Most probably not optimized yet for this model...
pulse7··on Jim Keller's startup is building a factory to mass-produce small chip fabs
With electron-beam lithography you can build transistors with gate lengths down to 1 to 3 nanometers.
pulse7··on Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally
exactly: high demand!
pulse7··on Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally
NVidia Spark is much slower (low memory bandwidth)!
pulse7··on Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally
Can you please share you llama.cpp server parameters to turn on modern LLM sampling stack?

Docs [1] say that the top_n_sigma is already in the default sampler list: "(default: penalties;dry;top_n_sigma;top_k;typ_p;top_p;min_p;xtc;temperature)"

[1] https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/blob/master/tools/serv...

pulse7··on Rocketlab acquires Iridium
This https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk%27s_Tesla_Roadster ?
pulse7··on Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]
I'm sorry your dad didn't respect your IT work...
pulse7··on Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't
So it's similar to "Andy and Bill's Law" [1]: "What Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh away".

If Windows would stay the same (and not grow) it would be much faster on newer CPUs...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_and_Bill%27s_law

pulse7··on France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech
It looks like the president - which was a businessman - will make a huge damage to American IT businesses. And IT stocks dominate the S&P 500, comprising roughly 1/3 of the index's total market capitalization... Good luck America!
pulse7··on Sony halts memory card shipments due to NAND shortage
Source?
pulse7··on The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)
Maybe they can stack LLM parameters in 200 layers like 3D NAND flash and make the chip very small ...
pulse7··on IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off
IBM was founded in 1911 and it survived many things...
pulse7··on OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race
...and there would be dozen equally capable open-weight models which could be run locally at almost no cost... poor AI investors in this case..
pulse7··on OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race
Nvidia is the ultimate beneficiary of the money invested (due to expensive GPUs). If Nvidia loses these good customers, it will have less revenue. So it prefers to slowly buy it's customers with this money...
pulse7··on Apple Releases Open Weights Video Model
<joke> GGUF when? </joke>
pulse7··on Are consumers just tech debt to Microsoft?
I'm very happy that "AGI office workers" will use Microsoft products - so I don't have to do it anymore... But: they will not pay a dime for the licenses...
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