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spottedmarley

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About spottedmarley

I do things and I say stuff. Sometimes I say stuff while I'm doing things (multitasking) and, on occasion, I am simultaneously neither doing a thing nor saying stuff. If that happens just give it a minute, eventually I'll do something.. or start saying stuff.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49222599

    For learning it's all you need. Pick a good small model, I would recommend Qwen3.5 there are models ranging from 0.8b params (will run on a smart phone) all the way up to 397b para…

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    Comment #49222541

    and Religious Leaders Say the End Times Have Begun The real question is why anybody listens when salesmen tell them anything

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    Comment #49222027

    Ok, well what about blowing up datacenters?

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    Comment #49222012

    Makes me miss my old Packard Bell PB16 .. or maybe I just miss the 90's in general .. or being young.. sigh

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    Comment #49221977

    On Linux I use ShotCut for video

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    Comment #49221963

    But then how would I take the photo I need to feed my AI-powered fecal analysis agent?

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    Comment #49221622

    I've never stopped using Sublime Text. There's no reason. It does everything and also nothing (in all the right ways). Welcome back

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    Comment #49217363

    Claude is MacGyvermaxxing

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    Comment #49217342

    I've been wanting this for a while. I've developed my own routine for doing this and can't wait to stop doing it!

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    Comment #49217304

    The internet is the same as it's always been. Sending packets of data from here to there. Everything else is abstraction built on top of that. All of the cool stuff is still there …

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    Comment #49210783

    I built my own arena for benchmarking local LLMs on a suite of small projects intended to grade the models on workflows I am likely to use them for. You can view my leaderboard: ht…

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    Comment #49210430

    Bring back funeral pyres

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    Comment #49208502

    Equates to: Our world is full of advertising and marketing

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    Comment #49208478

    I don't get it. How is the crappy OS on grampa's Gateway tower tracking ME?

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    Comment #49205249

    Very true, second hand windows is just as shitty as the first time you installed it.

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    Comment #49205228

    Actual title: New Orleans gives up on 911. ' It's just not that important. '

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    Comment #49204857

    We have bagels and coffee

  18. story
    Laguna S 2.1:118B-a9B better than Qwen3.5:122B-a10B? So far, yes

    I just found out about this new American (San Francisco) model today and I'm currently benchmarking it and, so far, it is outperforming my standard go-to model Qwen3.5:122b and eve…

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    Anybody tried Laguna S 2.1 (by Poolside)?

    I just found out about it but I hadn't ever seen it mentioned and it sounds really interesting. Im pulling laguna-s-2.1:q4_K_M right now

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    US and China race to be first to build Skynet. Either way we're F'ed

    I keep hearing that we must win this. We? The trophy is theirs and the result is the same. Skynet. Winner?

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    Comment #49196777

    gmail is best used as a recovery account since it will always be attached to your google account and you can't get rid of it. protonmail is a better email provider though imo

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    Comment #49196697

    How dare you!

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    Comment #49196420

    Windows can only track people who use Windows. Also, cigarettes can only kill people who smoke cigarettes. LoL

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    Comment #49195224

    No endless scroll? My mouse wheel feels neglected.

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