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I'm curious too! One obvious thing is that the memory requirements for this are substantially smaller than DwarfStar-- which AFAIK can only start to be used at 64GB ram and upwards…

Probably 42, but I could be mistaken...

Counterpoint, I'm just a happy user of this local LLM [1] from antirez (of Redis fame). [1] https://github.com/antirez/ds4

District heating is a mature technology. Direct Use geothermal heat is the one I am personally most familiar with -- as a geophysicist. However "waste" heat utilization is a defini…

True. Chena Hot Springs [1]. They are famous in the "direct use" geothermal community. A lot of the thermal energy is not used for electrical generation. Although a small portion a…

"Bubble? What Bubble? I don't see no steenkin' Bubble."

You aren't, perchance, from Iceland, are you?

O.M.G. I last used a card punch in circa 1980 or thereabouts...

Turo.

(Mode I) So fracture mechanics does have its uses, eh?

I know this is off-topic, and likely to get me down-voted, but hey! I'll live dangerously for the sake of repeating a hilarious (to me) .sig in a now ancient Usenet post. These //g…

As always, there's an XKCD [1] for this! [1] https://xkcd.com/149/

What is the delivery mechanism for the MOF. The chemistry sounds promising (to this amateur, at least) but how does it get to and enter cancer cells?

May peace be unto him, you, and the rest of your family. When (if?) you feel ready, there is an organization [1] whose mission is to support siblings, parents, and grandparents of …

Geophysicist here. Look up potential fields methods in geophysics. Such things have been measured and mapped for quite some time. The grandfather of all modern gravimeters was inve…

May you never need to be in a bereaved parent's shoes.

Thank you. And shame on the NYT.

Yes. ChatGPT "safely" helped[1] my friend's daughter write a suicide note. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/opinion/chat-gpt-mental-h...

In whose interests would it be for academics to "leave email"? Theirs? (Personally, I think not.)

I just did a BOTE calculation for my iPhone (A17 Pro chip; GPU rated at 4 Tflops). According to the sales blurbage in TFA, the Cray 1 performed at 80 Mflops. (Yes, that is OBVIOUSL…

The doco mentions "left" and "right" mouse. I have the ctrl-click already mapped to right mouse on my trackpad. Before I take the plunge, how well does this work with a trackpad on…