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smcnally

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About smcnally

I build teams, products, businesses. My work blends tech, advertising, content. I believe in the rule of threes.

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    Comment #48940416

    groq did an ASIC for llama and now for nvidia. Their cloud service is fast. > NVIDIA Groq 3 LPU Inference Accelerator > The NVIDIA Groq 3 LPU is the next generation of Groq’s innov…

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    Comment #48915269

    Does this work on early Velop mesh nodes, by chance?

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    Comment #47421322

    Some of unsloth studio’s code is Apache? Or some of lmstudio is?

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    Comment #46892872

    Or more-realistic flawed looks as the case is here.

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    Comment #46691398

    That’s beautiful. But you get aurora even sans G4, true? Was this more intense and spectacular?

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    Comment #46691256

    Indirect Nuclear Fusion

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    Comment #46308743

    “Mac-only” was disappointing to read, but OBS’ render performance has been fine on macos and linux even with older hardware. James Webb calls anything heavier than helium “metal.”

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    Comment #45680791

    It’s also a Wonder Dog, a Canadian power trio not featuring Neal Peart, and a moment when we shouldn’t evacuate the Death Star.

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    Comment #45664130

    > The technical term is enteral ventilation via anus (EVA). Anecdatally, I have encountered multiple people with congenital capabilities re enteral locution via anus. Wishfully, tr…

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    Comment #45232237

    https://anycrap.shop/product/adult-bathroom-wipes-soaked-in-...

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    Comment #45057828

    > After the Shuttle program ended in failure, work on reusable launch systems stopped for decades. “ended in failure” sounds harsh in this context. Or is that just me whistling pas…

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    Comment #43836673

    `model.safetensors` for Qwen3-0.6B is a single 1.5GB file. Qwen3-235B-A22B has 118 `.safetensors` files at 4GB each. There are a bunch of models and quants between those.

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    Comment #43836229

    Beyond solid benchmarks, Alibaba's power move was dropping a bunch of models available to use and run locally today. That's disruptive already and the slew of fine tunes to come wi…

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    Comment #43689235

    The ROT13 cipher for API is NVK. NVidia Knows

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    Comment #43424130

    > The DESI collaboration is honored to be permitted to conduct scientific research on I’oligam Du’ag (Kitt Peak), a mountain with particular significance to the Tohono O’odham Nati…

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    Comment #42950326

    A recent financial report on the media industry noted The Onion is on the verge of collapse due to, quote, “not being able to able to make sh*t up that is more idiotic than current…

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    Comment #42840771

    darktable does all of this. It’s a complex application like Aperture or Light Table. You run it on your own macos, Windows or Linux computer. You can write your own software to ext…

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    Comment #42831123

    “Your Honor, why should I bother obeying a law my elected representatives could not be bothered to write?” seems like it should be a reasonable defense, but you’re right that the o…

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    Comment #42688295

    OpenAI and Anthropic are definitely among the leaders. Playing catch-up to these leaders' mind-share and technology is some of the motivation for others. Calling the progress being…

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    Comment #42687142

    A compiler in the mix is very helpful. That and other sanity checks wielded by a skilled engineer doing code reviews can provide valuable feedback to other developers and to LLMs. …

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    Comment #42686621

    That is definitely an issue with many LLMs. I've had limited success including instructions like "Don't invent facts" in the system prompt and more success saying "that was not cor…

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    Comment #42680854

    > LLMs also love to double down on solutions that don't work. “Often wrong but never in doubt” is not proprietary to LLMs. It’s off-putting and we want them to be correct and to ha…

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    Comment #42680729

    > I'm not sure this is grounded in reality. We've already seen articles related to how OpenAI is behind schedule with GPT-5. Progress by Google, meta, Microsoft, Qwen and Deepseek …

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    Comment #42680667

    A deeper version of the same idea is to ask a second model to check the first model’s answers. aider’s “architect” is an automated version of this approach. https://aider.chat/docs…

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    Comment #42570040

    for x86 or PowerPC?