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zoe_mnode

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About zoe_mnode

Infra & Open Source veteran. Previously worked on AI coding agents. Realized compute was too expensive, so now I'm exploring distributed inference on consumer hardware. Current experiment: Replicating DeepSeek V3 efficiency limits.

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    Comment #46597920

    This direction is clearly not unique to DeepSeek. Similar ideas have shown up before, like Gemma’s per-layer embeddings, RWKV’s deepembed, and ByteDance’s UltraMem. From an algorit…

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    Comment #46526646

    This is impressive work on quantization. It really validates the hypothesis that software optimization (and proper memory management) matters more than just raw FLOPs.