We get left off maps…often!

Well that list is clearly incomplete; “camel toe” is there, but “moose knuckle” is not. Wont somebody think of the children.

I’m with you there; well the concept images at least. The version that made it to production was not as good.

I saw one in person once; way too big for NZ roads; certainly not nice looking.

But Musk went all Nazi and the thing falls apart…so even if they fixed all the issues and made a smaller one; I’d still not be in the market for one.

It has been a while, but last model I ran was gemma4:e4b 9.6GB. It ran very quickly; also have run deepseek-coder-v2:16b 8.9GB, again very fast…

I am looking to get back into it once I have a bit of time on my hands; I’ll look into the state of the art models again and see what I can run.

I was going to do a reinstall; it has been a few years of inplace upgrades and a lot of extra cruft that inevitably gets built up. I was asking mainly to see if there was a clear recommendation for which system is best for experimenting with local LLM’s etc…Looks like there isn’t any specific advantages to any system so I’ll probably just stick with Mint, likely wait until Mint 27 is released before doing an upgrade.

Interesting; what do you suggest to run in its place?

I have been running models on it for a year…seems to be getting better and better; I never ran on Nvidia so I can’t compare.

The works of Aristotle; there is probably no more influential set of works that will ever exist.

The translation of his works, into “modern” European languages (Latin, French etc…) can be credibly argued was the beginning of the Renaissance; which lead to the Scientific Revolution and The Enlightenment.

The Islamic Golden Age also has roots in Aristotle’s work, his and other ancient scholars writings were translated into Arabic; enriching the thought of the many great philosophers of Arabic world. Which (among other things) gave us the basis for modern mathematics.

I’m sad to announce I cannot list me with a trillion dollar valuation, I haven’t lost even a single billion dollars this quarter.

There are so many good things that are happening.

I realise that humanity seems to be on the brink of some truly terrible changes. But you have to cast a wider view than what is broadcast.

Most of the good things are happening all the time in so many places, but simple good works don’t generate clicks and engagement.

A huge part of the good in the world is coming through kids; we are teaching them to care for each other and the planet. It is working, there is pushback in some sections of society, there is serious backsliding in some countries. But overall we are moving forward toward a fairer and cleaner world.

I’m a techno-optimist, I think humanity has the capability to solve any challenge before us. It would be nice if we didn’t need a crisis to spur the change we need; but we solve problems…that is what we do.

The old ways die slowly; the victories are hard won sometimes, but they are won. Even Trump, as much as I hate all the terrible things he is doing; seems to be the last gasp of a failed philosophy. They won’t let go without a fight, but there are far more of us than there are of them.

So Manna by Marshall Brain then.

Tastes just like raisins

Samoa?

Samoan fry bread is; pure golden perfection when done well; with lots of butter and jam.

Can confirm.

Went to a dinner party at a friends house last year; there was a German who now lives in NZ. My partner makes sourdough from scratch; that German engineer just about cried when he tasted it. Said it was just like the ones at home.

You had me at

A barbecued sausage in a piece of white bread

This is a Kiwi staple; if there isn’t a sausage sizzle, is it even an event?

I can’t remember if it was before 2016 but it is something Trump said, he said “you are going to get sick of winning”.

But this is actually what winning looks like. Approval ratings go up!!!

Gotta watch out for those math labs

Update: After updating to the latest kernel (6.14), and removing the old amdgpu drivers that i manually installed. I am now running on my GPU. I’m running deepseek coder 33B, and it generates approx 6 words/second.