UncleOxidant

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by UncleOxidant 5d ago
I've got some Tang nano and Tang primer boards (9k, 20k and 25k LUTs). The 9K has a cute little SPI LCD display. Claude has been able to interface with the boards via USB (it setup a UART on the FPGA to do so). We've gotten a GoL
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by UncleOxidant 8d ago
This. There should be a password that unlocks to a fairly minimal, but not too minimal configuration that wouldn't have anything of interest on it.
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by UncleOxidant 8d ago
Hasn't done so great since Buffett announced his retirement. Starting to recover lately.
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by UncleOxidant 8d ago
He must actually like farming because he didn't have to become a farmer. Of course, knowing that the family fortune has your back even if the farm doesn't work out probably helps.
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by UncleOxidant 8d ago
yes
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by UncleOxidant 8d ago
I have not measured pre-fill, but it's said to be around 1000. It feels very snappy and unlike my experience with running 27B models the performance stays pretty flat even as the context increases. Unfortunately, we don't know ho
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by UncleOxidant 8d ago
Vulkan or ROCm backend? I've also got a strix halo box. 30tok/s would we usable, but I wonder how it compares to the Qwen3.8-Flash-next - I get about 40tok/s running that on Halogen and it feels like using Claude 4.6.
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by UncleOxidant 10d ago
I don't really want to be an entrepreneur. Like I said, I don't think I'm cut out for it.
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by UncleOxidant 10d ago
There's a library in the neighboring suburb that has a little cafe in the lobby.
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by UncleOxidant 10d ago
But this being supply shock induced inflation means that raising rates will likely have little effect on lowering inflation.
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by UncleOxidant 10d ago
This president single-handedly raised tariffs on goods from all over the world.
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by UncleOxidant 10d ago
> Prediction: this causes a recession in two years "this" (raising the fed rate by .25%) is not what causes a recession in 2 years, it's what led to "this" (the ill-advised, badly-planned, Iran war) + tariffs + p
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by UncleOxidant 11d ago
> we need the poor to start 10000 businesses Most new businesses fail. Then the poor are even deeper in the debt hole. Some people can/should start businesses, but a lot of people are just not entrepreneurs - I include myself in th
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by UncleOxidant 16d ago
As an American reading this I feel like we have fallen far behind when it comes to home HVAC (and bath) tech.
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by UncleOxidant 19d ago
This is happening to the technocratic centrist parties all over the world - such as the Democrats losing in '24 to Trump. The irony is that if the technocratic center would stop being paralyzed by fear (fear that the the right wing par
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by UncleOxidant 1mo ago
I've seen recommendations for locations near the Great Lakes. Upper peninsula of MI, for example. Plenty of water. A warming climate should actually make the winters there somewhat less harsh.
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by UncleOxidant 1mo ago
If Kerensky had been successful maybe Russia would have ended up with a Nordic democratic socialism model. Not that he necessarily had the wherewithal to be successful ( Ordered an ill-fated military offensive against Austro-Hungarian force
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by UncleOxidant 1mo ago
> We skip over fixing the birthrate You're assuming the birthrate can be "fixed". Japan has an even worse demographic problem. They've tried "fixing" it and nothing much works. Similar for South Korea. Japan
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by UncleOxidant 1mo ago
> that sort of individuated cosmopolitanism only works for educated men and women with means, who have or have the capacity to self-actualize. So because not everyone can afford to travel freely we shouldn't let anyone do that?
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by UncleOxidant 1mo ago
Our birthrate has been below replacement for several years now. We need immigrants to mitigate that.
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by UncleOxidant 1mo ago
Didn't we used to fast track citizenship for immigrants who married a US citizen? I mean, the default should be that after the wedding you're now on track to be a citizen within a year or two if the marriage is still in effect by
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by UncleOxidant 1mo ago
1946 was quite a year. Three presidents born that year: Clinton, W Bush and Trump.
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by UncleOxidant 1mo ago
Speculation that this is GLM 5.3 Flash.
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by UncleOxidant 1mo ago
I'm just not sure that stronger punishment and enforcement is going to be the answer here. It seems like many of the Asian cultures have a much higher level of social cohesion even without the threat of punishment. How do we get (back)
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by UncleOxidant 1mo ago
Alternate take: How many people have known how to program in assembly for the last 30 years or so? It's been a skill on the decline. Good compilers made that happen.
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by UncleOxidant 1mo ago
> I fully expect a new president to be ushered in, whether R or D, and for some level of normalcy to start creeping back. I'm pretty sure that barring shenanigans we'll get an D president next time. I'm also pretty sure th
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by UncleOxidant 1mo ago
Is there a RISC-VI in the works where they try to learn from the RISC-V mistakes to make improvements?
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by UncleOxidant 1mo ago
> It [The Bible] is full of great wisdom and great stories, and also cruelty, evil lies, and reminders that the world now is in many ways better than it was because people are better. Are people better? And if they are what made them be
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by UncleOxidant 1mo ago
I'm hoping for a 3.8-122B MoE
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by UncleOxidant 1mo ago
Wait for the MTP variants that will likely be out within days. I'm on a 128GB Strix Halo box and for 3.6-27B 8bits I was getting about 9tok/sec (not great). With MTP that gets closer to 18 tok/sec (kind'a usable).

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