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The pricing differential is just absurd now. I expanded the memory on my math clusters about 2 years ago so I would have 4 machines with 1.5TB of DDR4 memory each. Back then a 128G…

The best part of this workflow - which I see often - is that by having someone build custom software to automate some process they often step back away from the process being their…

What I was commenting on was the concept that a small model at home is somehow more efficient. To make a reasonable and fair comparison you would compare many people running a smal…

"But there’s another challenge: local LLMs. It’s already possible to run LLMs on local hardware, and that’s only going to get easier in the future. Apple’s M-series chips are extre…

That brings back memories! Riding in the Transport to pizza hut with tanks of refrigerant banging around in the back. I remember when Ardent appeared! It was such a cool machine, a…

That is awesome. The NP-1s were great. I spent lots of time working on en.ecn.purdue.edu - Some tape drivers, some maintenance, and lots of software projects - it was really cool t…

George was really into video stuff - he had stacks of 8mm video tapes in his office, and of course stacks of exabyte drives. He had many different cameras and was always trying new…

I was holding the camera for some of these videos. Such a great time!

Sad to hear! I worked for George for all of my undergraduate time at Purdue. He was an amazing boss with such a passion for all things unix. For a while he had the UNIX license pla…

I am similar in that all of my interactions are with my real name and it is unique enough that just putting it into google will instantly identify me. There is one other 'jeff spon…

A fantastic read, and really interesting to see the use of Forth. I remember Forth having a bit of popularity in the 80s. This was such an amazing game, especially in that you felt…

The study looks at a wide range of different tests spanning many different areas of expertise and output types. Some of the tests, like the web vis tasks used Sonnet not Opus (whic…

Yea, that makes sense as you would need quite a bit of information across a reasonable temporal range if the identifying qualities are movement related. Very interesting.

This is a VERY controlled environment - and they used 20 passes of each person walking with direct knowledge of each person to train for identity. They did no tests with multiple p…

Oh they are both loud and eat a ton of power. I think the 9305 is at least 800 watts at idle. That is the biggest downside of the retired datacenter gear... yo u really need a dedi…

Agreed - the big thing is 100g is much much cheaper now as so much 100g gear is coming out of datacenters. So many of those older ConnectX4s and 5s, plus lots of switches and optic…

I'm using ConnectX5s for most, and some ConnectX4s in the older servers. Both of those cards have really come down in price in the used/ebay market. I have been playing around with…

Yea! Those MS-O2s look great, so I may need to upgrade! I did get a couple of DGX Sparks to play with.

Yea I'll dig up the link I used - there was a great reference about getting the thunderbolt working after reboots/etc.

I have a 3 node proxmox setup on MS-01s using a 25G Thunderbolt ring for Ceph, and indeed it took a lot of hoops to get it working correctly and reliably. I did manage to get it su…

"because I can, and it is fun." The best answer! I am most of the way done with upgrading most of my homelab to 100G from 10G, but there really isn't a practical reason for it. 100…

I think understanding stellar processes and then using that understanding to theorize about other observations is a skill. My point was that observing can be a fantastic way to bui…

Agreed - There is no guarantee of what will happen in the future. I'm not for or against the outcome, but certainly curious to see what it is.

"it lost its value". It has not lost its value yet, but the future will shift that value. All of the past experience you have is an asset for you to move with that shift. The probl…

"No-one has ever learned skill just by reading/observing" - Except of course all of those people in Cosmology who, you know, observe.