thadk

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tuning global tech pulse toward int'l tech development. Working in ICT from '07 in East Africa (Tanzania) and later West Africa (Liberia).
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Comment · 14 days ago
Can anyone share syllabi for these?
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It is nice to have simulated confirmation of the M4 Max 128gb limitations on Gemma4 31B vs Gemma4 26B A4B at Q4:

Time to first token (TTFT) on 5,687 tokens, like pasting a short code block into the prompt, takes 36 seconds vs 4.7 seconds. It also breaks down the seconds for each step like KV and prefilling.

Gemma4 31B TTFT on the M5 Max 128gb with same setup is showing as 19 seconds.

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Well, seems like this indicates another long-time and discerning user profile for Apple's pricier XDR display products.
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Still reading but I like how Cat Hicks in Psychology of Software Teams (2027) confronts this dilemma on page 9: "Agile Manifesto said, 'Individuals and interactions over processes and tools.' DevOps made the argument that cohesive processes in software development needed to be invested in... Agile, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or DevEx, every engineering organization I've ever met with is struggling with implementing these ideals in the real world."
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It bugs me so much when eReaders re-render the ebook and everything moves slightly. I lose my eye muscle memory of where things were.

Until now, I had not thought to try to lock down the settings that lead to accidental reflows. It sounds less difficult in KOReader than I expected. I may try to stabilize it for my next ebook I can get into KOReader.

Comment · 3 months ago
Would dropping airplane windows lower radiation exposure somewhat, especially on those polar routes?
Comment · 3 months ago
Three or so years ago, Omar, the creator of DSpy pointed out on Twitter that ~LLMs get better most by better internal collaboration. Wish I could find it.

It seems to me that LLMs and particularly chatbots have already allowed for bigger scale collaboration within the LLM companies versus what was possible within the prior cohort of big platform companies.

Has the result just been taller towers, or actually a change of what is possible?

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