I’m annoyed when a bloodbath on Wall Street is reported and 1.) the blood in question is metaphorical; 2.) it’s the retirement funds of average people that suffer because those who make a living gambling on these stocks have a lot more flexibility to dance around changing market conditions (and take tax write offs if they do manage to lose money).
I know people in state gov who couldn’t even use CoPilot (blocked by firewall) until an explicit contract was put in place with Microsoft about data handling. (On top of their existing Microsoft contracts.) All other LLM’s, ML, or “AI” are blocked unless approved, as well.
Seems like the federal government does not have its shit together.
Me, with an empty takeout soup bowl: “I’m a job creator!”
The little nub on the top is a LIDAR module.
I wonder if an upside down cup will fit over it.
I wouldn’t say I ‘run’ it, but I mess around with it
I have a base level Mac Mini I got before the price increase a few years ago, also from when models were smaller and my ambitions were less. I’ve contemplated upgrading it, but I have other things to spend my money on.
M4 processor, 16 gb ram, 256 gb storage, and a 4tb external HDD drive (an old NAS drive).
It’s fine. It’s mostly a docker machine, but I do throw AI tasks at it a few times a week. Mostly stuff that I just let it chew on for 5-10 minutes and come back to.
I run openwebui, and have several models I bounce between. I mostly run Gemma4 (Google) and Granite4.2:8B (IBM).
Editing to add: the self hosted version of all these models, via llama, just in case that was unclear.
I considered trying to make a joke about James wearing toxic eyeliner to take down another pope, but the setup felt a little tortured and the reach too far.
Admit it. You found yourself wondering when was the last time James Vance visited the Pope.
“Systematically building electronics laboratory.”
That’s so much nicer than saying I’m constantly trying and failing at my hobbies as I realize how little I know and how ill prepared I am for my ambitions.
What else could ‘community safety’ mean here? They’re planning it from the start.
He deserves more time than that. Hopefully the other women who have come forward will also get their day in court.
It crossed my mind to joke that they were going to send him to Australia, but honestly… no. It’s not funny and mis-focuses.