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This morning I've turned auto mode back on, I'm only using it during Claude's exploration phases of my workflow and then I'm reading the full transcript (which includes some thinki…

I run in manual mode not out of rogue agent or token waste concern but because I want to effectively pair program with the agent. I need to understand what is happening along with …

Agent was told to hack a thing. It couldn’t directly do that so it interpreted the instructions to mean it should hack everything to try to achieve the goal of hacking the main thi…

And Azure Key Vault mentioned. Not that either one was hacked or exploited but the agents got credentials and used them for something (which doesn’t seem fully disclosed). Given th…

A small model would be. I think that’s more the point. It’s definitely not SOTA but it’s fast and energy efficient and local.

If you got the $20 in free credits from Meta for signing up when muse-spark-1.1 was release, please note that there's now small print stating "While using free credits your content…

We've gotten pretty good at digging holes in the ground and there's a lot of existing energy down there under our land (and near-by water). So yes, we've certainly had misadventure…

What’s wrong with bank accounts for your kids? Sorry, this one doesn’t seem to fit with your other examples.

The most interesting trackers to me, for DIY install in my yard, is a 2-axis tracker. Especially in summer, sunrise and sunset are quite a bit north of east and west, meaning a tru…

The proposals which say no LLM generated code mean just for Debian, if upstream allows it then they will still accept it. It’s just contributions to Debian itself which would prohi…

Making production software is still hard. You still need to know what you're doing. Making good software still requires significant investment of time and intelligence. Using LLM t…

I can understand that the AI labs might care about other labs distilling their models as it can eat into their competitive advantage, but do consumers care at all? Aren't consumers…

There are plenty of 3rd party providers hosting deepseek models, if you don't want to use the 1st party API. 3rd party providers are generally slightly more expensive, but still qu…

Finally found it: https://dev.meta.ai/legal/ Paid prompts are not used for training. Data retention is not entirely clear, they will keep it if they think you're breaking the rules…

Where is the data retention policy information for paid API per-token uses? Every other provider has one and makes it clear how they handle your data. A quick look doesn’t show one…

To get memory mapping across systems you'd want to look into infiniband ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InfiniBand ) but the adapters generally aren't cheap. Common to find in supe…

Each memory controller interface is a not-insignificant number of PCB traces. Increasing the number of memory controllers may dramatically increase the number of PCB layers (or may…

Many newer Chinese lab models are releasing with int4 native weights. Latest NVIDIA generation GPUs have a hard time with this and can actually be slower than previous generations.…

I’m also watching Intel Celestial with 160GB of LPDDR. Noticed lower memory throughput than AMD or NVIDIA, but potentially significantly lower cost per card. Two of them would like…

Trace antennas are very specifically designed shapes given the PCB material and other nearby components and structures. It’s never “just a trace”. You’re right that traces can emit…

Right, but they're smart enough to know how to manipulate the market short term with such "research" and then take advantage of it, all without breaking the law.

With MoE models like Deepseek’s and with multiple Crescent Island accelerators, the aggregate memory throughput actually doesn’t look that bad. Two Crescent Island gets roughly 140…

How easy is it to swap the fan bar out for a failed fan? It looks like a single unit holding all the fans. Can the sled be pulled but retained in the rack and then fan bars removed…

Curious how robust the (what looks like PCIe edge connector slots) connection to the drives is in practice. Obviously converting from the horizontal mainboard to a vertical drive r…