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Comment · 1 day ago
it is very hard to take too much vitamin D
Comment · 2 days ago
0.8% of electricity can be very critical MWs or MWhs.. rounding to 1% is 87.6 hours of electricity. could be the top 1% of prices, or grid stability, or some other grid event where having batteries able to instantly supply tens to hundreds to thousands of MW is worth a ton of $$$ and also huge increases in grid stability.

recall batteries do not generate electricity, they store it for when it is needed most.

Comment · 2 days ago
well if there was any doubt about why openweight models were ranking lower on every iteration of the benchmarks... this should remove all doubt. to just flat out remove is very overt
Comment · 17 days ago
starlink sats are some of the lowest orbiting satellites in space - 330-370km for v3. this helps latency as well as easy deorbit at end of life. the v3 sats have multiple 400 gbps lasers for meshing... I can't decide if your comment is sarcasm or not actually because starlink is fully functional and doesn't have any of those issues
Comment · 18 days ago
This is a very low number for a server GPU. My V100 from 2017 is 0.9 TB/s.

A single B300 has almost 8 TB/s.

AMD MI300x from 2023 is 5.3 TB/s

Edit: my bad you are saying that this is an impressive number precisely because it is more or less normal RAM, not VRAM

Comment · 23 days ago
Comment · 23 days ago
someone else picked up that bit of math and has run with it and has refined it downwards multiple times. believe it is now in the range of 2^-18 or so
Comment · 1 month ago
also consider oh-my-pi. it is much more "batteries included" than Pi
Comment · 1 month ago
And exactly how many tokens (please do the breakdown for prefill vs decode) does a Claude $20/month plan include?
Comment · 1 month ago
This team is in a tough spot - they'll need to innovate and get their models in a good spot quickly. They are racing the clock against various similarly sized models being burned into ASICs and running at a similar speed (or faster).
Comment · 2 months ago
I think the question is probably more along the lines of - why not do a database with 100 TB of storage/records instead of a cache? tomato / tomato.. especially with smart caching in front of database. 100TB of flash is a good bit cheaper than 100TB of memory
Comment · 2 months ago
I'd take qwen3.6 (3.8 as of tomorrow) 27B running at 17k per second first on the way to Sol/Fable! And then dsv4-flash-0731!
Comment · 2 months ago
Opus 4.5 level of performance is also accessible with deepseek-v4-flash-0731 (0731 being the july 31 update) which is much, much, much smaller. 2x RTX pro 6000 blackwell can run it. 4x can run it very comfortably
Comment · 2 months ago
Comment · 2 months ago
Modern dell desktops (like 8th gen+) idle around 10W. Raspberry pi isn’t saving much

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