vparseval

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   by vparseval 5mo ago

   qwen-3.6 is really interesting. The dense 27B model is pretty slow for me whereas the sparse 31B is blazingly fast but it also needs to be since it's so chatty. It produces pages and pages of stream of consciousness stuff. 27B does thi
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   by vparseval 5mo ago

   Love it! It's entirely inapplicable and useless to me but it embodies the spirit of Show HN and what the spirit of programming in the 80s and 90s was.
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   by vparseval 6mo ago

   I found that you can run models locally pretty well that exceed your VRAM by a bit. At least ollama will hand excess off to your system RAM. Maybe performance suffers but I've never actually seen it crap out and I can wait a few minute
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   by vparseval 6mo ago

   I don't remember exactly in which book's introduction Hannah Arendt mentioned this, but she pointed out that every time humanity learned a new skill that improved its efficiency in some capacity, that skill as well as adjacent ski