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This is great; I hate fighting distro source tools when I want to debug something.

Well, look through it's log and what it did and if you don't understand anything ask it why it did it/what it does.

I'd like one stage further - what are the genetics of this area? How does a dedicated brain area like this get encoded - (Hopefully the Allen Institute might dig on this one?); but if we can find how the areas are encoded in the DNA we could presumably see how they evolved, but then perhaps also spot other areas?

Interesting, however in my case we have someone who eats a banana each day with breakfast. There's no way to buy 7 bananas in your weekly shop!

I sometime use Ocado in the UK, and it's 'OK' but it's certainly not at the cheap end of the market. I more often use a traditional supermarkets home delivery service where it's manually picked; those supermarkets have the advantage of having very little infrastructure overhead in the picking - they mostly use their existing stores and pick at quiet times/over night. Ocado has to run entire warehouses just for this task. Ocado can only work with packed goods - not weighed vegetables for example - which the hand pickers in store can do, albeit whether they do it well is down to luck and the mood of the picker.

The 'Glass slipper' idea makes sense to me; people have a bunch of different ideas to try on AIs, and try it as new models come out, and once a model does it well they stick with it for a while.

Nice article; I hate to think what the DC bus bars look like! ~50v at ~25kW/rack; 500A bus bars - I guess split, but still!

The Block floating point (MXFP8/4 stuff) is interesting; the AI stuff is really pushing basic data types that haven't moved for decades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_floating_point

Thanks; hmm but that means the version with EDAC has been in use since 2002, so is less likely related to todays update? (hth did they design stuff without protection back upto that point?)

Where did you see that it didn't have ECC?

It might be that they're limited by something else in their existing racks; say power or networking ports, so this is an easy hack to get into their existing rack scheme.

You'd think that from an environmental point of view, Apple would be able to sell packs of Mac Mini boards without the case and packaging for people doing this; with no physical board or electronic change, it would be easy.

MacOS dev and CI.

Even local, MoE are just so much faster, and they let you pick a large/less quantized model and still get a useful speed.

Looks like someone is trying to push for it: https://ukenergystorage.co.uk/

Good if they can get it to work; there's also a hydrogen/ammonia storage scheme being planned; https://www.statkraft.co.uk/newsroom/2025/statkraft-shares-p...

I think it's going to take a while, but certainly worth trying.

Yeh it probably is expensive - but we currently have no other way (other than gas) to cover the low-wind/sun periods; while there are times when the UK can almost run purely off wind, there are other periods where we get ~5% of that wind energy for a week or so; the battery storage is nowhere near useful for that.

This is an odd one; it seems to be the text of an AI book by James Tagg ?

https://searchepsteinfiles.com/file/text/HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015...

How do people deal with all the different quantisations? Generally if I see an Unsloth I'm happy to try it locally; random other peoples...how do I know what I'm getting?

(If nothing else Tongyi are currently winning AI with cutest logo)

I've seen (commercial) software put in 'Escrow' before when a client uses it; effectively a lawyer (or similar) holds onto a copy so that if the original company goes under, then the buyer can get hold of it.

I guess if you were using the LLM to process data from your customers, e.g. categorise their emails, then this argument would hold that they might be more risky.

And where did you get the reference SHA256SUMS from ? Did you check the gpg signature on them against a good sig from somewhere?

Please remember to go gently and slowly/appropriately with people; Help people who want to move, show off how you're using stuff - but don't push too hard and make sure the setup is right for the person.

Agreed, but some are nice enough that I'll make sure I get them installed where I can. 'ag' is my go to fast grep, and I get it installed on anything I use a lot.

I found this article a bit better than Reuters one;

https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-safety/radioacti...

Wow, the motor thing is weird - just read how it works: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATP_synthase#Binding_model that's pretty neat!

They're not snooping, they're modifying the address dynamically to cause aliasing.

What does the word 'macropscopic' mean in it's abstract? The best bet is a typo of macroscopic - but hmm it's made it through that far and I do find a bunch of other uses of that word in physicsy stuff

(The nice word in there is 'ansatzes' which I didn't know, as something like a starting guess/assumption)

Yeh; one other thing - you list a separate management network as an optional - it's not optional! Under no circumstance must you expose the managemnt IPs of switches or the servers to the internet; they are, on average, about as secure as a drunk politician. Use a separate management net, make sure it's only securly accessed.

I assume your actual training is being done somewhere else? Did you try getting colocation space in the same datacentre as somewhere with the compute - it would have reduced your internet costs even further.

The networking stuff seems....odd.

'Networking was a substantial cost and required experimentation. We did not use DHCP as most enterprise switches don’t support it and we wanted public IPs for the nodes for convenient and performant access from our servers. While this is an area where we would have saved time with a cloud solution, we had our networking up within days and kinks ironed out within ~3 weeks.'

Where does the switch choice come into whether you DHCP? Wth would you want public IPs.