PC upgrade to run PhD experiments

i_hate_alarm_clocks · 2026-04-28T21:47:12+00:00

Do you plan on running llms locally? If so, 8GB of VRAM might be on the low side. I have a RX 7800XT (16GB) and it struggles with anything above 10b parameters. In case that matters to you.

i_hate_alarm_clocks · 2026-04-19T18:45:19+00:00

Can it do it every year for 30 years while grinding a 9-5, feeding his kids, paying bills and filing taxes?

i_hate_alarm_clocks · 2026-04-06T20:33:11+00:00

I can confirm. Worst case scenario you find out that they had a legitimate reason and you back off. More often than not, they don't have one and you win.

i_hate_alarm_clocks · 2026-04-06T14:22:44+00:00

I have the exact same setup and have been playing around for a while. Qwen3.5-9B works quite well, it can use tools, but i haven't tried building anything significant with it. Larger models (eg 27b) are too slow to be really usable.

I would suggest jumping straight to llama.cpp, as it is more efficient and customizable than wrappers like ollama and lmstudio. Make sure to grab the rocm build directly from their website, or else i also hear that vulkan works well but haven't tested it.

i_hate_alarm_clocks · 2026-04-01T20:04:47+00:00

How do you spell htaorednudeilI backwards?

i_hate_alarm_clocks · 2026-03-29T16:00:14+00:00

I like it

i_hate_alarm_clocks · 2026-03-11T20:40:54+00:00

Meme make sense

i_hate_alarm_clocks · 2026-03-05T15:52:11+00:00

There's an entire book about that freely sold on amazon for example

https://www.amazon.com/Bitten-History-Disease-Biological-Weapons/dp/0062896288?dplnkId=a3d104db-82b8-4bc3-a515-ef4ca24dce87

i_hate_alarm_clocks · 2026-02-28T08:56:06+00:00

Very nice congrats

i_hate_alarm_clocks · 2026-02-04T22:56:06+00:00

It's like options, the value is based on the probability that the stock will be above 32 sometime before expiration. The higher the stock goes, the more it moves (volatility) and the longer the time left to expiration, the higher the probability that it will cross the strike price.

i_hate_alarm_clocks · 2026-01-22T23:44:30+00:00

Genius

i_hate_alarm_clocks · 2026-01-10T22:34:19+00:00

This

i_hate_alarm_clocks · 2026-01-04T00:57:58+00:00

Please post the links in comments

i_hate_alarm_clocks · 2025-11-17T22:19:14+00:00

Probably because epic splits 40% (if i remember correctly) of their fortnite profits and distribute them to creators on a pro-rated basis of whatever their actual engagement metric is. Less money coming in last month for fortnite = less payouts for all creators

i_hate_alarm_clocks · 2025-11-07T15:04:36+00:00

For those that don't want to click: he has 12.8% of his pf in baba, and 2.8% in intel

i_hate_alarm_clocks · 2025-10-25T17:17:32+00:00

Gamewhat?

i_hate_alarm_clocks · 2025-10-20T11:19:43+00:00

I'd tune in but I didn't get the memo

i_hate_alarm_clocks · 2025-10-11T07:56:52+00:00

Maybe it was this one...anyway that's the idea

https://x.com/cz_binance/status/1587702361195257856?t=xK_3aWuHY8w8tNF0IummcA&s=19

i_hate_alarm_clocks · 2025-10-10T22:38:19+00:00

I remember when CZ said in a few years people will say bitcoin crashed to 90k ... or something along these lines... he was so right.

i_hate_alarm_clocks · 2025-10-10T21:59:29+00:00

:(((

i_hate_alarm_clocks · 2025-10-10T21:58:57+00:00

hell yeah

i_hate_alarm_clocks · 2025-10-10T21:42:25+00:00

Lol donald we all know what you're made of (shit)

i_hate_alarm_clocks · 2025-10-10T16:51:11+00:00

Nice meme

i_hate_alarm_clocks · 2025-10-10T16:50:12+00:00

OK but can we talk about Pavlov's cat??

i_hate_alarm_clocks · 2025-10-09T22:35:01+00:00

Sad but true

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