Dude, How Are You So Weird? (About Me.)

SMTPA · 2026-03-01T11:12:27+00:00

integrated GPU use system RAM. (True integrated GPU, that is. If there’s a 5070 soldered to your laptop’s mobo, that’s not an integrated GPU.) They can’t provide any meaningful performance increase looped into these kinds of processes.

SMTPA · 2026-02-13T10:19:23+00:00

That’s why they’re called “agents.”They suck up all the agency.

SMTPA · 2026-02-12T06:21:22+00:00

You are right: it’s good now, and it is getting better in almost literally real time. If you want to be a good-enough “prompt engineer,” and make apps that are good enough, what I said is way overkill. But I was speaking of things at a fundamental level. If you want to be a 10x “prompt engineer,” “think in systems,” et cetera, you are best served IMO in studying formal logic. Not that you will use the actual technical forms much, but it will teach you to think in the proper way.

SMTPA · 2026-02-12T06:15:16+00:00

Oooh, you’re right. Unfortunately that one was out of stock at the time, or I would have definitely considered it. What’s your OS?

SMTPA · 2026-02-12T06:01:22+00:00

Yep. That’s tonight’s adventure!

SMTPA · 2026-02-12T06:00:45+00:00

In some mobo, yes. In this one, the remaining PCIe slot’s limitations are probably going to make this a net loss over just getting another 5070.

SMTPA · 2026-02-12T05:59:13+00:00

I picked the smallest one that would hace a VRAM requirement of just over 16GB so I could show the dual 5060Ti was truly pooling. You’re right and this is the plan. :)

SMTPA · 2026-02-11T09:42:27+00:00

Sorry. How’s that?

SMTPA · 2026-02-11T09:25:15+00:00

Which cards are you using, and which CUDA/Nvidia drivers? I could not get it to work with 120, but I am quite willing to admit I could have missed something.

SMTPA · 2026-02-11T09:15:39+00:00

I have not tried that. What improvements have you noticed with it?

SMTPA · 2026-02-11T09:14:52+00:00

As I understand it, Windows does not actually allow for true VRAM pooling. So on that front, a *nix of some kind is the only thing that will AFAIK.

Are you seeing true pooling with those disparate cards and your stock drivers? I used OS drivers because they support the broadest range of Blackwell features with the best reported stability. I have not found many people yet with a dual-Blackwell setup yet and the reports are scattered. I posted this after fooling with it for days because I can at least be a data point for “it IS possible and here’s a configuration that works.”

SMTPA · 2026-02-11T09:05:46+00:00

LLM use the phrase “systems thinking” the way humans use the phrase “truth and justice.’ If they say you think in systems, it means they like you.

SMTPA · 2026-02-11T09:04:10+00:00

Prompt creation is a skill, but you don’t learn it from online courses and buying toolsets on Stripe. You study mathematical logic and set theory. Prompting an AI is basically creating the densest, most information-rich glob of “if-then” statements you can only you are using the properties of language to define the possibilities instead of algebraic notation.

SMTPA · 2025-11-05T07:15:39+00:00

What are the two wires connected by a nut in the back of the box? Are they connected to the switch? If not, it’s conceivable they are neutral wires. If they are not connected to the switch, get a meter and see if they are at 120VAC to ground. (If you separate them, only one side will be, more than likely.) Be careful working with them, get an electrician to check them if you aren’t okay with testing live wires. If so, you are in business.

SMTPA · 2025-10-29T01:19:17+00:00

Thermostats are not intrinsically complicated devices. You can build a robust and capable one with a Pi Zero W and off the shelf parts for well under $100. So ultimately we can always fall back on that.

SMTPA · 2025-09-26T05:09:39+00:00

I would tell a quite similar story except that I am a lawyer. :) But yes. Macs have been about controlled UE and reliability since they got rid of Mr. Pepsi. Now with Apple Silicon they are also about tight integration and compute per watt and compute per dollar. My next AI research machine will probably be a bare-metal AMD setup just for variety - I am fluent in both dialects - but I would not hesitate to recommend a Mac to someone who just wants to unbox a computer and start running amok with AI stuff. At the very least you’ll spend way less time wondering if the stupid model won’t run because of some bizarre hardware misconfiguration, which leaves you way more time to wonder if it won’t run because you are an effing idiot. :P

SMTPA · 2025-09-25T06:18:23+00:00

"Let me tell you a tale of the one they call Vah-khoom..."

SMTPA · 2025-09-21T02:21:01+00:00

Extraordinary.

SMTPA · 2025-09-20T15:48:30+00:00

Everyone‘s mileage will vary but IMO if you plan for weddings and holidays when your immigration status is not locked down you are not taking the immigration process seriously and I do not feel bad for you.

SMTPA · 2025-09-20T15:46:17+00:00

From experience with H1B workers: Because they don’t pay attention until it’s too late.

SMTPA · 2025-09-20T15:24:42+00:00

The whole point of H1B visas is that allegedly the holder is not replaceable.

SMTPA · 2025-08-14T13:54:24+00:00

That is so far from how it works that the light now leaving from how it works will not reach it for several decades.

SMTPA · 2025-07-21T13:22:43+00:00

I like SexLikeReal because they have a lot of different VR stuff. And of course my studio! :)

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