I have to ask.. what in the world is a "radical centrist" ?
Very much this... The utility of Claude has grown exponentially with the amount of work I've put into memory/context management, tooling, skills development and CLAUDE.md (and friends). I freely admit I may just be…
It depends hugely on what "rent usage of this model through one of the many LLM hosting providers" means. If you're asking them to host the model privately then yes, all of that 1.6T of RAM is likely in use holding…
$5K seems like an absolute steal compared to paying contracted security experts to find such bugs. I'm surprised these programs aren't pushed harder, as the potential ROI seems fantastic.
I do something similar - as I approach the context limits I have a pre-compact flush skill that extracts anything useful from the context, updates the MEMORY.md and my Obsidian vaults (set up as a poor man's graph DB)…
The cost issue is obviously of prime importance, but I'd also argue that the transparency of the innovations creates a tremendous cross-pollination, and not only within the Chinese communities but in the US/Europe as…
This is great - and another example of how much more efficient CLI tool use ends up being in actual day-to-day use. Claude Code and Hermes took it in and it runs great in my initial tries at it. Thanks for making and…
Another endorsement - I used Kokoro pretty extensively with an app I was developing over the last year and it's been excellent, both on- and off- GPU. Even with Elevenlabs (long time subscriber) the comparative quality…
It's worth being careful here: a lot of the affordable enterprise-class routers from 10+ years ago aren't as fast as cheap consumer hardware - like the OP or just a decent mini PC. The primary arguments for the…
It depends on what's meant by "fully utilized" but fp8 quants of Nemotron 3 Super, the latest Minimax, Cohere A+ and the Mistral small and (especially) medium variants all sit in that 128-256 category, especially with…
There are also nvfp4 quants of Qwen 3.6 27/35 floating around. I've done benchmarks of both and the quality difference vs fp8/bf16 was barely notable. Honestly the nvfp4 capability is the most interesting feature of the…
There is at least one MCP server in Obsidian's community plugins, plus the REST API access capability which is already addressed in several open source MCP plugins. I use Obsidian as a persistent context store and…
It *is* hard to make memory, especially HBM (...which is what the AI market wants, and is what the manufacturers are focusing on) and bringing on new capacity takes years. There's the additional wrinkle that the…
It’s usually open loop - closed loop, so closed loop goes through CRACs or liquid cooled equipment manifolds. That heated water circulates through an heat exchanger on the roof that uses open loop cooling to shed the…
In terms of platform variants the Taurus outsold the Crown Vic by a fair amount. The latter was certainly hugely popular as fleet vehicles, but the Taurus was Ford's best selling sedan for quite a while. The Taurus was…
Genuine curiosity: Is there any speculation as to what these tools are keying on to reject those particular applicants? It seems like it just being the applicant's name is too easy an answer, but I could be overthinking…
The commentary on hand-created signage was especially fascinating. The observations about the use of computers "enshitifying" design sort of eerily echo a lot of the commentary about AI now, including the (not…
I have the $100 plan and had almost never run out of credits until I started using the ultracode / workstreams feature w/Opus 4.8..at which point I managed to blow the full 6 hour allocation in like 20 minutes, or so.…
Maybe it’s naive, but there’s something incredibly hopeful that there are folks not only protesting this kind of corruption, but also that there’s a government actually responding to the voice of the people. That the…
I don’t think the analogy between rock star developers and LLMs bears out here. Like any other tool, AI abides by the basic reality of garbage in/garbage out. If you don’t make sure the LLM has sufficient context then…
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I always knew the "point" was there, but never saw it actually used in my travels (..which finished in '90 or '91). I seem to recall the node lists at some point didn't have decimals, but perhaps my recollection is…
99:9008/206 / 1:137/206
They implied it might have options with < 128G of memory. That could significantly reduce the price of components. There's also the very real possibility that the whole venture is being subsidized by Microsoft - or even…
There are still a *lot* of sharp edges with the Spark: compatibility, overstated performance, power consumption/heat generation, etc. It's one thing to have that situation on a box explicitly aimed at developers and…
I have to ask.. what in the world is a "radical centrist" ?
Very much this... The utility of Claude has grown exponentially with the amount of work I've put into memory/context management, tooling, skills development and CLAUDE.md (and friends). I freely admit I may just be…
It depends hugely on what "rent usage of this model through one of the many LLM hosting providers" means. If you're asking them to host the model privately then yes, all of that 1.6T of RAM is likely in use holding…
$5K seems like an absolute steal compared to paying contracted security experts to find such bugs. I'm surprised these programs aren't pushed harder, as the potential ROI seems fantastic.
I do something similar - as I approach the context limits I have a pre-compact flush skill that extracts anything useful from the context, updates the MEMORY.md and my Obsidian vaults (set up as a poor man's graph DB)…
The cost issue is obviously of prime importance, but I'd also argue that the transparency of the innovations creates a tremendous cross-pollination, and not only within the Chinese communities but in the US/Europe as…
This is great - and another example of how much more efficient CLI tool use ends up being in actual day-to-day use. Claude Code and Hermes took it in and it runs great in my initial tries at it. Thanks for making and…
Another endorsement - I used Kokoro pretty extensively with an app I was developing over the last year and it's been excellent, both on- and off- GPU. Even with Elevenlabs (long time subscriber) the comparative quality…
It's worth being careful here: a lot of the affordable enterprise-class routers from 10+ years ago aren't as fast as cheap consumer hardware - like the OP or just a decent mini PC. The primary arguments for the…
It depends on what's meant by "fully utilized" but fp8 quants of Nemotron 3 Super, the latest Minimax, Cohere A+ and the Mistral small and (especially) medium variants all sit in that 128-256 category, especially with…
There are also nvfp4 quants of Qwen 3.6 27/35 floating around. I've done benchmarks of both and the quality difference vs fp8/bf16 was barely notable. Honestly the nvfp4 capability is the most interesting feature of the…
There is at least one MCP server in Obsidian's community plugins, plus the REST API access capability which is already addressed in several open source MCP plugins. I use Obsidian as a persistent context store and…
It *is* hard to make memory, especially HBM (...which is what the AI market wants, and is what the manufacturers are focusing on) and bringing on new capacity takes years. There's the additional wrinkle that the…
It’s usually open loop - closed loop, so closed loop goes through CRACs or liquid cooled equipment manifolds. That heated water circulates through an heat exchanger on the roof that uses open loop cooling to shed the…
In terms of platform variants the Taurus outsold the Crown Vic by a fair amount. The latter was certainly hugely popular as fleet vehicles, but the Taurus was Ford's best selling sedan for quite a while. The Taurus was…
Genuine curiosity: Is there any speculation as to what these tools are keying on to reject those particular applicants? It seems like it just being the applicant's name is too easy an answer, but I could be overthinking…
The commentary on hand-created signage was especially fascinating. The observations about the use of computers "enshitifying" design sort of eerily echo a lot of the commentary about AI now, including the (not…
I have the $100 plan and had almost never run out of credits until I started using the ultracode / workstreams feature w/Opus 4.8..at which point I managed to blow the full 6 hour allocation in like 20 minutes, or so.…
Maybe it’s naive, but there’s something incredibly hopeful that there are folks not only protesting this kind of corruption, but also that there’s a government actually responding to the voice of the people. That the…
I don’t think the analogy between rock star developers and LLMs bears out here. Like any other tool, AI abides by the basic reality of garbage in/garbage out. If you don’t make sure the LLM has sufficient context then…
[dead]
I always knew the "point" was there, but never saw it actually used in my travels (..which finished in '90 or '91). I seem to recall the node lists at some point didn't have decimals, but perhaps my recollection is…
99:9008/206 / 1:137/206
They implied it might have options with < 128G of memory. That could significantly reduce the price of components. There's also the very real possibility that the whole venture is being subsidized by Microsoft - or even…
There are still a *lot* of sharp edges with the Spark: compatibility, overstated performance, power consumption/heat generation, etc. It's one thing to have that situation on a box explicitly aimed at developers and…