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Re:The Goose Programming Language on Saturday October 24, 2026 @04:03PM (#50224608)
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...
Re:Thelio Mira AI Linux Workstation: 192 GB GPU Memory on Friday September 11, 2026 @04:16AM (#49655101)
Prompt processing on Macs is VERY slow...
Re:Training a 3.8B LLM to 0.384 CORE for $998 – Hugo Vergnes on Thursday September 10, 2026 @04:34AM (#49640352)
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...
"code translation in hardware" microcode is called "native"
Re:RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better on Sunday August 16, 2026 @04:20AM (#49318007)
So it's mostly the "Optionality". Like USB. And yet USB is everywhere...
It there anything similar for RTX 3090 and RTX 4090?
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...

"--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...

It will come... all big hardware players (Intel, AMD, Broadcom) and dozens of startups (Tenstorrent, etc.) are working on it...
Hasn't Docker always been just a thin layer of duct tape over existing solutions?
Re:Why Wall Street Is Ignoring Big Tech's Debt on Sunday August 09, 2026 @06:08PM (#49236629)
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.
Re:Open Weights and American AI Leadership [pdf] on Friday July 24, 2026 @05:48PM (#49042008)
Those are routers - not general purpose computers.
Re:The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote (2010) on Friday July 24, 2026 @06:08AM (#49033357)
On the absolute limit of ethics? This is simply not ethical anymore...
Re:Quickly rewrite Git repository history on Friday July 24, 2026 @05:57AM (#49033271)
The same here! Merged several repos into monorepo are retained full history!
Re:Bonsai 27B: A 27B-Class Model that runs on a phone on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @03:31PM (#48911881)
Most probably not optimized yet for this model...
With electron-beam lithography you can build transistors with gate lengths down to 1 to 3 nanometers.
Re:Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally on Friday July 03, 2026 @06:16PM (#48780656)
exactly: high demand!
Re:Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally on Friday July 03, 2026 @06:15PM (#48780644)
NVidia Spark is much slower (low memory bandwidth)!
Re:Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally on Friday July 03, 2026 @06:10PM (#48780599)
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...

I'm sorry your dad didn't respect your IT work...
Re:Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't on Thursday June 11, 2026 @10:44AM (#48491067)
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

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!
Re:Sony halts memory card shipments due to NAND shortage on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @03:59AM (#47584080)
Source?
Re:The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec) on Saturday February 21, 2026 @01:54PM (#47103544)
Maybe they can stack LLM parameters in 200 layers like 3D NAND flash and make the chip very small ...
IBM was founded in 1911 and it survived many things...
Re:OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @11:28AM (#46136439)
...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..
Re:OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @11:21AM (#46136309)
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...
Re:Apple Releases Open Weights Video Model on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @05:16AM (#46119666)
<joke> GGUF when? </joke>
Re:Are consumers just tech debt to Microsoft? on Sunday November 23, 2025 @01:47PM (#46026183)
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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