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Data Center Moratorium
What would happen if we enacted a 10 year moratorium on new data centers or expanding existing data centers' electrical capacity? Here's what I think:…
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Four 2017 V100s, One Fork, and a 27B Model That Refused to Fit
I posted earlier about putting four V100s in a box and running Qwen 3.8 on them. This is the post about how it actually works under the hood: the mode…
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Loud Fans, Cheap Speed, Qwen 3.8
I have purchased and installed 4 nvidia V100s in PCIe format and am now running qwen3.8 27b on them. I admit it was a lot of work to get it working th…
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Deepseek Revolutionizes Local AI
Have you tried deepseek lately? A month or so ago I started playing with their new (then) flash model because of some social media support about runni…
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Boosting Productivity with AI Assistants
Several weeks ago I got frustrated with openclaw constantly breaking, so I vibed my own quick (Charles). I cannot be happier with that decision, becau…