shadowpho

The big three :)

Qwen3.8-flash-next Deepseek4-0731-flash Glm5.3

The latest unsloth llama.cpp has a lot of nice features that runs them faster than before.

I’ll have to double check which one runs how fast, but it’s generally 20-40 t/s. (And infil is fast but not sure how that’s counted)

I like this calculator but it’s really wrong at least for dgx spark. I have one and I get 4x the tokens/s .

Jeez I checked eBay and they are up to $300+ now

I’d love to see a schematic.

I’d highly recommend to make sure you have plenty of esd diodes and protection resistors on all inputs. That’ll help the longevity of the system.

I see the antenna points straight at ground and buttons. Is the wifi ok?

Cost is a reason. You need to dig out that dirt (which is expensive), it needs supports, your house needs support around it/through it…

Making things bulletproof and massive runs opposite of cheap

Practically speaking any person cannot maintain that for significant length of time. Dieting has like a 99% fail rate by year 2. It’s hard to maintain that for many people — your body will keep you in starvation mode, keep you hungry and hang on to every calorie received.

Well everyone would. How many would you buy if you could turn around and sell them for $30k easily lol?

It’s like saying “well if Subaru launches a nice hybrid suv for $1k it’ll sell like pancakes” and yeah.. but it costs more in steel/ram to build that lol

Why can’t Apple launch a $50k product for $1k? Everyone would buy it!

I have a g9 and cooling is fine, but not great. I ended up opening it up and placing heatsinks on hot chips

I mean fast 128gb of ram is like $2k so it’ll be $3k after overhead for just the ram portion of device.

> and having extremely predictable payments for years

I’d argue rental is more predictable. Housing has a huge amount of upkeep — $10k ac, $5k water heater, $20k roof…

I’ll need to check my notes on power consumption. I’ve spent quite a bit of time trying out different modes and configurations… it’s not great. I would not expect years at all. You gotta be very careful about what has to stay on and off.

Furthermore, bugs. To this time there’s random crashes that happen with sleep which limits their use

The value of electricity is extremely time dependent. You can easily overproduce solar power for your house during the day fairly cheaply. However batteries + gas generators for cloudy day quickly make the cost significantly higher.

The grid gives you expensive guarantees about reliability. Just giving power does not do that.

Citation needed.

Edit: it’s absolutely not true universally and it’s ridiculous to suggest it is. Comparing averages will be very tricky as well.