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Was “only” $2k in its previous form but even in this updated box the mem bandwidth is woefully inadequate. There’s a few models with space for a dedicated GPU for hybrid inference but imo not worth it. Save your money for a Xeon or EPYC build

robotswantdataon Claude Design System Prompt

Agree, it’s vibe slopped rather than the actual Claude design system prompt

robotswantdataon Costco is the anti-Amazon

You can put tailwind on the CV

robotswantdataon 14× faster embeddings: how we rebuilt the ONNX path in Manticore

Intel AMX is very underrated too

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/accelerate-cpu-based-ai...

robotswantdataon Wallace the 6 inch f/2.8 telescope, building it, and hiking with it

Not good for planets IMO as 150mm focal length and a small 30mm aperture. Binoculars or small desktop DOB is better with kids for planets. The mini is amazing for deep sky objects for the price

robotswantdataon Wallace the 6 inch f/2.8 telescope, building it, and hiking with it

Very cool project. Been taking my dwarflab mini on hikes instead of the 12” dob ;) , not the same at all but enjoy getting dark sky and some great astro shots.

robotswantdataon The truth about being a manager

I edited, but in big mega corps could easily be 5x your junior staff.

robotswantdataon The truth about being a manager

It doesn’t cover the reality that nearly all your extra pay in a progressive tax system goes to the government. UK is hitting 70% marginal rates , or even 1000% for people with children.

robotswantdataon The truth about being a manager

Missed the part about 100x the stress and politics for 1.2x the pay.

robotswantdataon Unlimited OCR: One-shot long-horizon parsing

Very interesting.

The way I understand this works is that the researchers found a clever architectural hack to stop AI from hoarding memory when reading long documents.

Normally, when an AI transcribes a 100 page PDF, it tries to remember every single word it has already ingested. This short-term memory (the KV cache) grows linearly O(N) until the model runs out of VRAM and crashes (or caps it) To avoid this, developers are forced to build janky code that chops PDFs into individual pages, processes them one by one, and glues the text back together.

Unlimited OCR uses Reference Sliding Window Attention (R-SWA) to split the AI's focus into two paths:

Global Reference: The AI keeps full, uncompromised sight of the original document image so it never loses context.

Local Generation: The AI restricts its memory of its own typed text to a tight, moving window (like the last 128 words) and safely forgets the rest.

Will be very interesting for local AI and can’t wait to see what the community builds and extends with it!

robotswantdataon A 10 year old Xeon is all you need

Granite or sapphire rapids are very under rated for MoE inference loads. But you need a GPU for the KV cache.

Plus many boards also support CXL for RAM expansion over PCI 5!

Source: building a hybrid inference business for regulated industry workloads.

robotswantdataon MCP is dead?

I agree, codex app’s computer use agent feels sci-fi. Closest we’ve seen yet of a general purpose virtual worker.

robotswantdataon I'm Getting into Mesh Networks (Meshtastic, MeshCore, and Reticulum)

Zombies

robotswantdataon I'm Getting into Mesh Networks (Meshtastic, MeshCore, and Reticulum)

Wrong antenna for the frequency?

robotswantdataon I'm Getting into Mesh Networks (Meshtastic, MeshCore, and Reticulum)

Set up solar nodes last weekend. 200 miles of range now. Nerds, mad ideas. Good times.

robotswantdataon I'm Getting into Mesh Networks (Meshtastic, MeshCore, and Reticulum)

This is by design. It’s like BBS again

robotswantdataon 'AI washing': firms are scrambling to rebrand themselves as tech-focused

BPM is now agentic, don’t you know.

robotswantdataon A scoping review of bicycling interventions’ impacts on well-being

Don’t do PEDs

robotswantdataon Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools

1984 was meant to be a warning, not the UK’s digital infrastructure roadmap

robotswantdataon I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis

Most labs are shilling “AI worker” dreams to these very companies