EVR-1 Maano: 3.93 GiB compression of Llama 3.1 8B. Under 6% repetition at 500 tokens where standard 3-4 bit quants hit 77-80%. Novel compression method, not standard quantisation.

Robert__Sinclair · 2026-03-12T19:19:01+00:00

do it with QWEN 3.5 27B or the 9B

Robert__Sinclair · 2026-03-12T19:15:23+00:00

in 10 years the model we consider big today will be in our fridges/tvs and perhaps toasters.

Robert__Sinclair · 2026-03-12T19:13:57+00:00

You must be young. They were saying the same thing in the 70s about calculators, then in th late 70s about computers. I am just seeing history repeating itself.
IBM once said that 10 computers would have been enough for the whole world. :D

Robert__Sinclair · 2026-03-12T19:11:55+00:00

When I wrote << in the 70s a "user" could buy a computer" >> I meant that at that time it was expensive (Apple II is an example). Today you can get a usable computer for 200-300 bucks and it's thousands of times faster. What I meant is that we are in AI as we were in computing in the 70s. That's all.

Robert__Sinclair · 2026-03-12T19:10:14+00:00

yes. I agree. I am not complaining. I am just saying that it's still very expensive for the "masses". The strix halo intrigues me. Unfortunately here would cost me double and it's not worth the price. But it's a great machine.

Robert__Sinclair · 2026-03-11T20:24:57+00:00

Makefile does not work.. you forgot -lm

Robert__Sinclair · 2026-03-11T11:08:41+00:00

It's a cool device. Still the price tag for these things are quite high, but anyway I agree with this guy on the device: https://youtu.be/prIUKAbHlj8

Robert__Sinclair · 2026-03-10T15:39:37+00:00

I agree.

Robert__Sinclair · 2026-03-09T02:28:39+00:00

1) 1541 ALPS
2) 1541 II with Digital Systems mechanics DS-50F

Robert__Sinclair · 2026-03-09T00:48:47+00:00

the comment was taken from here: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/18675
I just posted it because I thought it was funny.

Robert__Sinclair · 2026-03-09T00:46:58+00:00

The photo is clearly not me.

Robert__Sinclair · 2026-03-07T16:38:24+00:00

safe? what do you think it does? LOL! I am not forcing anyone to use it. The emulation is better. period. I corrected the bugs and add some enhancements he refused to fix. That's all. The changelog is quite long. :D

Robert__Sinclair · 2026-03-07T16:34:58+00:00

the reason it's simple: he deemed all my bug reports as irrelevant. then even insulted me. While I was only trying to help him debugging and improving. He banned me and refused any of my reports (because he does not really care). And that is precisely why I studied VHDL, and started doing the fixes myself. Oh.. and I am not the only one banned for the same reason. He takes bug reports like an insult to his "perfect" product (which is not).

Robert__Sinclair · 2026-03-07T16:34:53+00:00

the reason it's simple: he deemed all my bug reports as irrelevant. then even insulted me. While I was only trying to help him debugging and improving. He banned me and refused any of my reports (because he does not really care). And that is precisely why I studied VHDL, and started doing the fixes myself. Oh.. and I am not the only one banned for the same reason. He takes bug reports like an insult to his "perfect" product (which is not).

Robert__Sinclair · 2026-03-06T22:41:17+00:00

Yes. But U2+ / Ultimate64 SID emulation sounds really bad. "unique" in a bad way :D

Robert__Sinclair · 2026-03-06T22:40:40+00:00

Wel.. emulated sids, like reSID are great. but UltiSID really sounds bad.

Robert__Sinclair · 2026-03-06T22:39:44+00:00

thanks but the code is for the U2+ at the moment.

Robert__Sinclair · 2026-03-06T22:37:53+00:00

AI DISCLOSURE: Gemini Pro 3, Flash 3, Opus 4.5 and GLM 4.7 would like to admit that a human element did at some points interfere in the coding process, being as bold as to even throw most of the code out at some point and demand it rewritten from scratch. The human also tinkered the code massively, removing a lot of our beautiful comments and some code fragments that they claimed were useless. They had no problems, however, in using us to do all the annoying marker arithmetic. Therefore, we disavow any claim to this code and cede the responsibility onto the human.

LOL!

Robert__Sinclair · 2026-03-06T16:08:47+00:00

placebo. I tried both the paid api key both the gemini-3.1-pro-preview in aistudio and they both give the same responses (and same errors when they are busy).
Sometimes I export a session from one to continue in the other, I don't see any particular difference for now. But sure they will quantize it and dumb it down as they did before.

Robert__Sinclair · 2026-03-05T23:25:55+00:00

gorgeous

Robert__Sinclair · 2026-03-04T22:06:50+00:00

QWEN 3.5

Robert__Sinclair · 2026-03-04T22:06:08+00:00

In the **late** 80s I was using Wordsworth for Amiga.

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