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nikhizzle

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About nikhizzle

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nikhil at mountainyak.co

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    IMHO from guy working with heavily quantized models and trying to get results. I do think quantization at less than 4-bit requires more advanced mathematics than is usually used. S…

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    Comment #48872026

    Got to my first job out of college and they gave me core dumps and had me debug the kernel for a year. Not my kind of fun, but definitely got me skilled in the art of low level.

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    Comment #48386403

    I believe I potentially wrote that code in 2006 when working at Apple on HFS. What a remarkable world!

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    Comment #48129252

    Ex-Apple kernel engineer here, Apple will deal with the memory shortage by making software more efficient in ram usage. Apple will just make every aspect of the system more and mor…

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    Comment #47335565

    Almost trivial using open source tools, the question is how it performs without calibration/fine tuning.

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    Comment #46595756

    Will think about it, trying to keep it running snappy with minimal cost since no clear path to monetization

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    Comment #46588897

    I’ve had luck getting higher rate of interviews for remote jobs by applying first. To that end I built a site which shows job postings as they are posted - https://tangerinefeed.ne…

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    I think the interesting thing here for those of us who use open source frameworks is that we can ask the LLM to look at the source to find the answer (eg. Pytorch or Phoenix in my …

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    Comment #46467283

    I may eventually get one of these just to use with Claude code. Been looking for the lightest best machine to use with agents.

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    Comment #46449582

    sample output here - https://www.science.org/action/downloadSupplement?doi=10.112... This is at the very beginning of begin feasible. I do not know anything about photonics, maybe …

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    Comment #46024138

    Thanks for sharing this. Needed something meaningful this morning.

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    Comment #45753141

    I mean tether redemptions. Hedge funds liquidating treasuries last year significantly distorted yields for a short while.

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    Comment #45747788

    Armchair economist here - one implication of this is that a crypto liquidation will cause global interest rates to spike at a time when they will need to be lower to calm the marke…

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    Comment #44732086

    Thanks for this, this is very useful for a related ai project I’m working on.

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    Comment #44418017

    Thanks! Will take a look.

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    Comment #44416816

    A job feed for remote jobs - https://tangerinefeed.net/ This is something I’ve needed myself over the last few years as jobs become shorter and shorter lived. Keep on improving it …

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