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>But that is considered success is it not? Not if you took out a $50k loan for an early gen solar system and it now only saves $30 a month.

Berkley is defiantly not representative to most of the USA. They have strange regional politics that restricts most residential construction.

>250sqm, 30cm thick brick for load bearing + perimeter walls, 30cm rockwool continuous external insulation, aluminium frame triple pane windows, glazured roof tiles, floor heating …

Be careful with these kind of long term sell back agreements. In the USA lots of early adopters of solar did so under net metering agreements where excess electricity is sold back …

They are saying that AMD's new Epyc Venice CPU has 16 memory channels allowing up to 1.6Tb/s of bandwidth. Which is higher bandwidth than most non-HBM GPUs. So full CPU local AI in…

My new favorite new passtime with frontier LLMs, keep telling them "I just ate a [non-food object]". Eventually it gets stuck in a loop of telling me to call 911, unlock my front d…

I'm running qwen 3.6 27b at 8bit quantization and 262k context. It takes 53gb of vram on my system.

The connection does not look standard so probably need to find some kind of OEM interposer card, which would allow you to connect some slimSAS cables that in turn connect to pcie a…

This is from the USA site: https://www.ebay.com/itm/157742745616 It's always a gamble buying used electric but per the description, fully decked out server with 256gb vram. Though …

4x A100s with the baseboard for $9k (USD). https://www.ebay.com/itm/336632412718 Buy one and let me use it when you're sleeping.

>sticker price is 7899. It's not even worth it at that point. You can get a used enterprise grade SXM baseboard with 4-8 V100/A100 GPUs off eBay at a similar price. That will even …

Try looking into Ryzen AI Max 395. AMD made a CPU/GPU soc with unified memory specifically for ai inference. Can buy mini PCs with up to 128gb ram.

America innovates, China replicates, Europe regulates.

I applied for a founding engineer with a startup though a "who's hiring" post. Had 3-4 rounds of interviews, met founders, did a project with them. I had competing offers and ultim…

Apple briefly was selling Mac studio with 512 GB of unified ram, meaning all that was available as vram.

They are likely including xAI and the massive training costs that entails in order to make it sound like all their ventures are losing money.

Since Twitter is now part of SpaceX, does that mean Twitter is classified as a common carrier too? Can Twitter no longer refuse to allow certain individuals use their platform? Hon…

Apple wants to vertically integrate. Their AI strategy until recently was to develop their own LLM models that were small enough to run on device. But massive scaling is what makes…

>I believe in science. I pray to science every day to deliver us from this heretical reign of RFK jr.

It's the new pattern you see from this kind of reporting. Innocuous beginning, omit the middle context, then mentioning the end reaction. "Young mathmatics professor buys cabin in …

>concrete and cement production are quite bad. Modern concrete construction uses iron rebar liberally. That means every concrete structure built today will crack and crumble in a f…