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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

so you can run the good version at home! this thread tells how to build a workstation for it.

tl;dr 768GB RAM.

with that, you can run the largest deepseek model, or even open a tab in chrome

apparently it's not very fast, but it does in fact do the stuff

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 1 month ago

engage in societal blackmail to anyone who’s ever heard the words TensorFlow.

no no wait this is geoff's stopped clock moment

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

that thread is a work of genius and answers what the next tech boom needs to be

~~dicks in mousetraps~~ I MEAN whatever wastes electricity most, preferably with Nvidia cards

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It’s all fucking solipsism with extra steps

or not, like when he told Grimes to her face that he thought she must be an ideal simulation for him

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago

expensive archival write-once BDs

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

this post from the guy who writes explainers about consumer financial structures hits different if you know he met and is exchanging tweets with noted race scientist Jordan Lasker (cremieux)

https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/chicago-casino-investment-offering/

maybe it's me but i'm hearing ultrasonic frequencies

probably nothing, right?

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago

did the stubsack end up in all somehow

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

we have this year's greatest pride anthem already and it's only january

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SIEOYOuX4s

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago

Rationalism is a cult, but it's also a cult franchise that generates smaller cults. Also a lot of the people were not entirely balanced to start with and rationalism made them worse. Anyway, Ziz.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago

yeah bsky is where journalists post now so it's where they scrape stories from

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago

Ulbricht also had really bad lawyers. The FBI evidence on the server in Iceland was tainted in fairly obvious ways and he coulda got much of the case thrown out, then just ... didn't? I can't find it, but Nicholas Weaver wrote some stuff on this.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago

it's better than that, he didn't dump a penny in

the deal is:

  1. they get unregulated
  2. they promise to spend money they were going to anyway, they're totally getting round to it bro
 
  • news accompanied by another crypto scam
  • price faked via >"$10b" of dubious stablecoin pseudodollars created out of thin air
  • no liquidity, trading super thin (even more pumpable)
  • public still not buying in
  • (yet)
  • lol

nothing has changed in my last few posts on the subject https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/

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