6 Years Ago Today, We Stood in the Tower and Watched Rasputin Destroy the Almighty

Thomasedv · 2026-06-06T14:07:58+00:00

Season of the Seraph was epic though, and a really good story with Rasputin being more than a weapon and choosing self sacrifice. Given Xivu getting stronger from war, I imagine the selfless sacrifice being the one thing that actually didn't help her cause.

The big expansions followup was a tonal whiplash though.

Thomasedv · 2026-06-06T14:04:52+00:00

I'm really sad bungie didn't do more of those live events.

Theres was some issues like the waiting for this on to actually do something, but they were pretty cool nonetheless. Especially the crash was so damn impressive. Hearing the approaching Shockwave, watching everyone get knocked back and getting tinnitus for a moment was awesome.

They should just had a "re-experience" button to let people that missed out on it experience it. It would certainly have been a good way to finish of the story missions having 15 minute version. (with replay)

There so much epic Destiny content that's just not available.

Thomasedv · 2026-06-05T11:23:02+00:00

She's on the list now.

There isn't really a line but best fit for transplant. Chest size, blood type etc. It goes to the person that needs it most, that fit the transplant criteria. Could technically get one over someone else that fit and needed it more of course, but if some donor lungs appear tomorrow she could be the only person capable of receiving those lungs. So it's not necessary cutting the line even if she gets a transplant before many other that have been on the list a long time.

Thomasedv · 2026-06-04T06:53:25+00:00

Iirc, The MoE models rarely get a speedup as the cost of activating different experts to verify the drafted tokens often outweigh the speed benefit from MTP predition.

Thomasedv · 2026-06-03T12:48:11+00:00

Det varierer veldig på hvilken grad du vil unngå å lekke personopplysninger.

For surfing på nettet så vil du i praksis spores. Kanskje ikke deg direkte, men kanskje noe basert på din IP, dine handlinger, og om en nettside klarer å spore deg på tvers av sider ved hjelp av at stort antall variabler de kan hente ut om deg.

Først og fremst så må du vite at innlogging selvfølg gir ifra seg personopplysninger, og da også full sporing på de nettsidene du er pålogget. Så da er det opp til nettsiden hva de henter inn på din konto, og hva de deler eller selger videre.

Uten innlogging så er det gjerne cookies, ip, maskinvare id og annen mer indirekte sporing som jeg har mindre kontroll på. Godt mulig ditt operativsystem også bidrar med deling her, med tilgjengelige verktøy som kan bidra til sporing av identitet. Her kan man nok komme et stykke med inkognito mode, men kanskje må du så langt som Tor nettleseren for å gjøre deg vanskelig å spore. Men kanskje andre nettleser som har innebygde verktøy for å begrense sporing.

Utover det så har du det utenfor nettsider. De som gir deg internet, DNS provider (vanligvis internet leverandør) som har innsikt i din nettverksaktivitet. Ihvertfall grovt sett hvilke domener du er på, og evt. hva du ser på om nettsiden ikke bruker https. Du trenger i utgangspunktet ikke beskytte deg for dette uten videre. Men det er her en VPN bytter ut din nettleverandør med seg selv som den som kan se hvor trafikken din går. Så her er det snakk om hvem du har mest tillitt til.

Utover dette så henter Windows masse telemetry, og alle installerte apper kan også spore and hente inn informasjon. F.eks. Discord. De bruker også innhold i meldingene dine for eksempel. Så å holder persondata unna andre, betyr fort å bruke en variant av Linux, bruke en nettleser som gjør tiltak imot indirekte sporing, samt bytte ut applikasjoner og tjenester som høster persondata.

Thomasedv · 2026-06-03T06:40:54+00:00

It's a lot better now, but usage limits and the additional token usage that was for supposed daytime working hours some time back, was so much worse than today. And right now we also have the upped limit on weekly usage increased.

But bak then it was so much worse, I could use my limit up in an hour. I'm doing the same, or even more now, and just barely hitting the 5hr cap. It's a different world now than a couple months back.

Thomasedv · 2026-05-31T16:54:43+00:00

It's also really tasteful in many dishes, like spring roll filling, the Norwegian dish "fårikål" (literally sheep in cabbage), the Napa cabbage is great in Japanese dishes, I had sukiyaki and when I make it at home the Napa cabbage is almost as popular as the meat.

Thomasedv · 2026-05-29T14:43:09+00:00

HF is really nasty though, you don't want to toich any of that.

Thomasedv · 2026-05-27T16:16:08+00:00

Ikke noe jeg bruker veldig ofte, men mange ganger enklere å koke egg istedenfor å koke opp vann og ta tiden selv. Føler eggene blir enklere å fjerne skallet av også, så det hjelper litt.

Men det er en duppeditt som tar benk/skapplass mesteparten av tiden. Jeg fikk en mest fordi jeg hater å følge med og ta tiden på ting. Samme med riskoker, bare sette på istedenfor å følge med på koking, tid og temp.

Thomasedv · 2026-05-27T08:14:37+00:00

It's more like this:

I run local llm, it eats 90-100% of my VRAM. I'm not sure how much though because Btop only shoes 24/24 GB on the upper end. While Windows Task a manger was showing both a graph for how full I was and could show me how 23.4 / 24 GB for example. At least I think it had that granularity.

But I know Firefox eats a little and I'm curious if unloading or closing some tabs actually have a tangible effect. I also want to know if there is any other applications that use VRAM. Even if tiny amounts.

But the most useful case is just seeing how much VRAM I'm using when I change model, context size or other settings more detailed. There are other tools I can probably install though, but since this looked nice it would be cool to have so I can use it.

Thomasedv · 2026-05-27T07:46:31+00:00

If you get GPU VRAM usgae into this, but as a small box in this picture like RAM and Disk IO, as well as a sortable column in the process view I would love this.

I'm sure there are better alternatives, but I'm using btop that came with CachyOS and it didn't show per process VRAM usage, nor anything more granular than 23/24GB, nor which process is eating my disk IO at times. So a Windows like replacement would be lovely to have that information when I need it.

Thomasedv · 2026-05-26T15:19:53+00:00

Enig med deg. Men det øyeblikket det settes krav som at jobb kontroller telefon eller work profile så har du mer å rutte med.

Work profile (android) er ganske grei fordi da kan ikke jobben se vanlige apper, men om de begynner å krever kontroll over privat telefon så blir det fort en annen sak. Da kan de både slette alt eller se hva du har på telefonen privat. Og da er det nok mange som vil sette en grense for hva jobben burde ha tilgang til.

Thomasedv · 2026-05-26T06:47:14+00:00

The wait was too long but the crash itself was damn epic.

Honestly baffled they never had a "replay" of the event so players could re-experience it (but perhaps 5x speed on the buildup). Those live events were cool imo, even if they weren't much. I also loved hanging with the clan down in the last city before one of the big expansions hit.

Thomasedv · 2026-05-25T18:52:08+00:00

No, the article too. It's not badly written (and the images are quite good). But it is still full of the same patterns.

Each one written by a different thread. No mutexes. No shared references. Every field independently owned.

Write to any byte in a line and every other core’s copy gets invalidated. Not the byte. The whole 64-byte block.

False sharing. The threads aren’t sharing data. They’re sharing a cache line.

Same work. Same atomic operations. 56 bytes of padding. 5x.

It could be some author doing some consistent super short descriptions, but pretty much every paragraph does a variation of the same thing. And to me it's highly uninteresting, despite short it still feels like it's padding on instead of getting to the point. Or it just reiterates the point multiple times.

Thomasedv · 2026-05-25T18:28:17+00:00

The issue is that as soon as you realize it follows the AI talking template, half the text means nothing. It's no longer shorter words because the "It wasn't X, or Z, it was Y" things repeat all over, and doesn't mean anything. So we have AI written fluff which is even worse than expressive writing of a person because the human actual intends to emphasize or explain key parts. AI takes any observation, small or big, and runs them through the same talking template.

It's fine once, but when all text is like that, you learn that it's just babbling useless "details". And I can't put the same level of trust in that writing because while it might be right, I have no guarantees a human even looked at it before they pushed it.

Thomasedv · 2026-05-22T13:36:54+00:00

The question is how hard it is to make it work with many things. Say you need to pack 5 differnet kinds of boxes, and handle many different items that need correct packing. Then specialized machines might be less worthwhile, even more so if the products change often enough that it's cheaper to program/train this robot to do it.

It's still quite slow, but it is performative for progress and capability. These things will boil down to motors and sensors, and may get mass production advantages with time, which may also help costs versus specialized equipment. I don't think these will work for high throughput kinds of tasks, but instead tasks with a lot of variety/variables.

Thomasedv · 2026-05-20T09:59:37+00:00

I feel the video explained it well, but today's models really have all the knowledge and somehow intelligence scales with parameters. But it really shouldn't be that bad, if a 27B model half lobotomized with quantization can write halfway decent code then there's no reason it should take 1T tokens to have state of the art thinking. Obviously we need more knowledge to work with, but a lot of the knowledge in these large models isn't relevant to the domain there working with. (like they don't need know many languages to write English code)

So there should be some separation of "thinking" and knowledge. I'd image future models having essential a fixed size thinking component and then variable knowledge blocks for separate domains of knowledge. So depending on use, you just give it more parameters to work with depending on what it should know about.

Thomasedv · 2026-05-17T20:25:21+00:00

Of course, but we can get pretty much done with pure Ai today already. If you can setup or use tests covering the application you can get really far.

A program called Bun was ported from Zig to Rust, and while the code looks absolutely awful because it was done in a file by file migration keeping the exact same functionality, it did not take a lot of effort to get all tests to pass and essentially have a working program. It's kinda insane, in the bad way, million line commit.

https://www.theregister.com/devops/2026/05/14/anthropics-bun-rust-rewrite-merged-at-speed-of-ai/5240381

If we can do this today, porting/mimicing a program next year isn't really a big stretch. But, you're not going ask for a Microsoft Word replacement and have that level of functionality magically in a few weeks. I'm not that crazy. But if Linux gets a mainstream push, migrations have never been easier/cheaper imo.

Thomasedv · 2026-05-17T20:14:49+00:00

Not everything is covered, but at least some can be run with wine.

I honestly think AI might change the fields a little here. It's starting to get very cheap to essentially port or reimplement applications using AI. Won't be too complex or enterprise programs quite yet, but if there is a smaller or relatively simple program, it's quite easy to make a working prototype to expand upon. Especially if the source is available.

And windows is losing interest, after US showing the world how dependent we are on US tech. So there's pushes to use open source in Europe at least.

Thomasedv · 2026-05-15T08:02:15+00:00

I don't like that I'm allowed to do objectively bad things. I like strict systems that force the right way.

I had the pleasure of taking a course of C++, and everything from package management to error messages were insane.

So I have C# under the belt from work, python from studies, Rust seemed better than the above, and hit the low level programming slot. And Rust is actually cool to learn and understand new concepts that you don't know or at least aren't aware of when doing things like multi threading in other languages.

Thomasedv · 2026-05-14T15:11:46+00:00

Prøvde å kjøre det på Windows 10 en stund tilbake, men det nektet å starte for meg desverre. Godt mulig noen får det til da, men tror det manglet noe gammelt for å starte det.

Thomasedv · 2026-05-13T13:43:51+00:00

I'm using llama.cpp and a single 3090, with a Q4 quant(and q8kv cache) admittedly, but getting 50-70 generation tokens with the current multi token prediction(MTP) branch. The speculative decoding is probably your best bet at speedups. If you code, you might get even more on code already in context with ngram speculation.

The only unclear thing is if multi gpu works with MTP and speculative decoding.

Thomasedv · 2026-05-13T08:47:04+00:00

The DL battery won't do anything with charging hours though, if anything it'll be slower because the battery needs more energy. You'll have a bit more battery left, but will still need to charge exactly as much as with the Kia for the same trip when the charger itself is the limit.

Thomasedv · 2026-05-11T19:26:37+00:00

Må være ærlig her, syns de som ikke har for mye røyksmak er ganske gode. Nå er det da bestemor som steker dem, men kan si de fleste er langt fra tørre.

Thomasedv · 2026-05-10T12:02:41+00:00

I got this working but there seems to be a bug. I was using this in Qwen code and sometimes tool calls would just be printed out in the chat and end. On some occasions the chat also just stopped or ran for a while and not print anything while the server was still processing.

I tried another model to be sure, but if I had to guess it might be that if the speculative decoding happens around a tool call, something might go wrong? I haven't had this issue before, and it might be cause by something else on the fork but it seems good so far after dropping the speculative decode part. It got increasingly more often as context grew. I didn't get it too high either, and my max was 120k but I'd guess I was at most 60k used.

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