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Re:Intel D270 GPU AI Accelerator–Up to 480 GB LPDDR5X on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @04:17AM (#50068380)
Yeah but I think this accelerator is more meant for a small scale deployment. This could probably serve a medium moe llm model at reasonable tk/s plus you could in addition to the llm also run a couple of other models on it in parallel like an embedding, reranker, STT, TTS, decision, image, video, … if you deploy this for a small business they might make use of all of these models but not all at the same time and not with 100s of users but this card could bring a serious broad range of AI capabilities for them.
Re:So you want to use OpenRouter? on Friday September 11, 2026 @06:36AM (#49656145)
could not agree more one pet peeve of mine is that using strict json output also does not work on all the endpoints of the models so I have to go through them one by one try it out and then only whitelist them.
Re:How the Heck Does GPS Work? on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @08:45AM (#47862795)
It gets even more interesting if you take into account how the satellites know where they are. Around the world there are fundamental stations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_station

I had the opportunity to visit one. Basically they measure their own position in relation to each other. They do that with Very-long-baseline interferometry, basically what is the time difference of quasar radio signals hitting their Radio telescopes. The things they account for is wild like local gravity field a couple of super prices atomic clocks etc. they then laser range find Satellites (all not only gps) which is a „fun“ summer student job at least at the one that I visited.

Re:ASCII Clouds on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @04:20AM (#46614004)
Really like it, only thing some of the cells can be jittery and rapidly switch back and forth between two symbols, making for an unpleasant effect, maybe there is a way to smooth this?