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om8

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    Comment #49162896

    Why int4? There are a lot of superior 4 bit formats like nf4 from bitsandbytes.

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    Comment #49033692

    > So how can I regain my ability to focus? Getting diagnosed with ADHD and taking meds did the trick for me. Not sure how relevant this is, since inability to focus was always an i…

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    Comment #48979842

    This project needs webgpu -- I did it on cpu about a year ago. My demo uses 2 bit quantization to run llama3 models on any device with enough ram. https://galqiwi.github.io/aqlm-rs…

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    Comment #48783506

    > manufacturing companies making the flimsiest, cheapest, plastic crap to save 1/3 of a cent on every mop they produce. Designed to work for the least amount of time before needing…

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    Comment #48554297

    Oh, yes, you are right about watts. My bad

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    Comment #48549431

    > volt-amperes are technically the same unit as watts volt-amperes are joules

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    Comment #48548487

    Cool way to think about GWh/year: 1 GWh/year = (10 ** 9) / 24 / 365.25 / (10 ** 6) MW = 0.11 MW 70 GWh/year = 8 MW 1755 GWh/year = 200 MW 252 GWh/year = 29 MW

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    Comment #47957030

    cargo/uv/go have lock files though

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    Comment #47919837

    https://docs.vllm.ai/en/v0.20.0/api/vllm/model_executor/laye... `vllm.model_executor.layers.quantization.turboquant` > The technique implemented here consists of the scalar case of…

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    Comment #47515314

    These are very different media types with very different goals.

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    Comment #46902887

    Is there a way to disable it? Sometimes I value agent not having knowledge that it needs to cut corners

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    Comment #46303622

    https://steveklabnik.com/writing/does-unsafe-undermine-rusts...

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    Comment #45576428

    FYI you can run just `uvx pdm`

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    Comment #45353973

    Also got it, found this thread by googling "ycombiinator"

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    Comment #45353970

    Also got it, found this thread by googling "ycombiinator"

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    Comment #45255387

    Have a similar project. Also written in rust, runs in a browser using web assembly In-browser demo: https://galqiwi.github.io/aqlm-rs Source code: https://github.com/galqiwi/demo-a…

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    Comment #45244313

    https://web.archive.org/web/20250914222638/http://ewaste.fka...

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    Comment #44948876

    Oh, ok. Thanks, I agree

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    Comment #44944056

    Why? They acquired books, that’s what they do

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    Comment #44881597

    Good rationalism includes empiricism though

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    Comment #44870586

    llama.cpp is a mess and ollama is right to move on from it

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    Comment #44822654

    Of course it is. GPT-5 is one of the most anticipated things in AI right now. To live up to the hype, it needs to be a reasoning model.

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    Comment #44805855

    It’s unfortunate that llama.cpp’s code is a mess. It’s impossible to make any meaningful contributions to it.