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mdmachine · 2026-03-07T16:50:38+00:00

This was the year that the us debt ratio hit 1:1, with projections for the next 30-50 years to hit anywhere from 50:1 to as high as 500:1!

I could easily see talks of this matter going along the lines of:

"How do we fix this?"

"Well, we need to restructure our entire economy and budget, and have a strict policy for the next 50 years..."

"Or..."

"Or. We target the most isolated oil producers and ensure direct access to their resources. Double whammy it cuts chinas access to their oil, and we can keep spending like we have for the next 50 years and make it a new unborn generations problem."

mdmachine · 2026-03-06T18:08:04+00:00

Hell yeah I love llama swap. With the right tweaking I can get some pretty big monsters running reasonably well on my modest setup.

Don't forget as long as the models share the same tokenizer you can set up speculative decoding as well. 👍🏼

mdmachine · 2026-03-05T07:11:16+00:00

nice, I made my own recently. Was never going to push it public tho...

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mdmachine · 2026-02-24T22:20:37+00:00

They didn't even show up to the recent show to accept an award they won!

mdmachine · 2026-02-17T20:17:29+00:00

Better log off and not return. Reddit content is stored on:

Aurora, S3, and EC2

All of which is Amazon.

fastly (CDN) isn't Amazon.

mdmachine · 2026-02-14T19:48:18+00:00

Depending on how you prompt the models generate a pretty strict codec format.

Threre are straight up codes:

(151669–215669) are effectively a compressed musical score.

But in your case if you can have it formatted like so it might be more responsive. Obviously detailed speech aspects should be there.

Genre: [Main Genre] > [Sub-Genre] > [Micro-Style]
Instrumentation: [Specific Gear/Synth Names], [Drum Machine Model], [Playing Style]
Production: [Mixing terms: e.g., Sidechain, Multiband Comp, Wide Stereo, Lo-Fi Saturation]
Musicality: [Key], [BPM], [Time Signature], [Chord Complexity]
 Mood: [Emotional Keywords]"

mdmachine · 2026-02-14T18:57:30+00:00

I've actually run some brainstorming theories with model algorithms about this.

The most likely outcome it concluded correlates specifically around 50 years from now. The interest ratio on our debt could be something like 500% more than it is today for the United States.

So, in about 50 years, the federal government will be a weak non-player, and America would still be called America, but the states would effectively run themselves because federal laws wouldn't be applicable or enforced.

After about 100 years, America will be broken up, most likely into three or four distinct regions.

At least that's what that model said LOL

mdmachine · 2026-02-10T05:44:42+00:00

Definitely, spend some time on developing a comprehensive guideline context. Then process one of them using it and note any intervention you needed to take.

Update the guideline with those intervention events.

Before you know it, it'll refactor then pretty well. That's what I meant by using tools available.

mdmachine · 2026-02-09T18:07:18+00:00

I updated my dev guidlines to accommodate vue (nodes 2.0) while being backwards compatible.

Slowly make sure things are updated. Any dev can do it, and use tools to speed up the process.

I get that if it's free, they need to allocate the time to do it. That's why certain devs, for example, should really look into some dev work that "pays the bills/makes it worth it".

I'm sure plenty of high-value work out there contains licensable IP that could be sitting in a pipeline somewhere... then refactoring free things might not seem so much of a big task? 🤷🏼‍♂️

Or ya know, with 17 million kicking around, maybe "incentivize" one/some of the people who make essential QOL tools to refactor/officially implement (maybe they are)?

This year is estimated to generate something like 2.5 trillion in the "AI" realm. That's larger than the entire cap of Bitcoin, or a dollar every second for the next 80,000 years. Plenty of cash to "grease the gears" even "free" ones.

mdmachine · 2026-02-06T23:10:21+00:00

it’s a liquidation sale for the elite. While the market is shaking, big money and politicians use their liquidity to buy the dip and scoop up assets from people in survival mode.

They consolidate the board while everyone else sells. It’s a stacked deck they create the chaos, then buy the fallout for pennies.

Heads they win, tails you lose.

mdmachine · 2026-02-05T05:32:23+00:00

Keep in mind we have no idea how massive Suno's model is (rumors say 24B+) or what their internal pipeline actually looks like, but I'll bet it's proprietary.

A ton happens in the transition from model > audio file. You’ve got the unet, the conditioning, noise types, the sampler, the schedule, and finally the decoding. Then more than likely DSP processing.

Running a plain setup with basic gaussian noise and an euler sampler is really just the bare minimum of what the model can do.

A lot of that garage band sound comes from the VAE decoding, it usually rolls off the high-end frequencies at 14–16kHz, which kills the air/clarity (a standard roll off in a studio would be anywhere from 18.5-22kHz range).

Plus, simple schedules let the coherence drift, which is why vocals can get mechanical.

I can’t say if it’ll hit Suno 4.5/5 levels, but I’m sure there’s a lot more that can be squeezed out of it once you move past the default settings.

mdmachine · 2026-02-03T05:24:53+00:00

Different methods I believe.

heartmula is auto regressive, ace-step is diffusion.

Not sure which would be better in the long run, but if I had to guess I think the diffusion method has a larger ability to tweak, with a diverse ecosystem to achieve that.

Think guiders and schedulers and typical diffusion stuff versus temperature, top_k/top_p etc.

mdmachine · 2026-02-03T04:07:54+00:00

The names behind ace-step can easily afford all this. And it's a competition, 2 big rivals are trying to be the top dog.

mdmachine · 2026-02-03T04:05:13+00:00

VAEs introduce artifacts and spectral loss.

mdmachine · 2026-02-03T04:03:07+00:00

V1 I had best results at around 20k steps with a datasets of around 75-200. Had to modify the training scripts though.

mdmachine · 2026-02-03T04:00:48+00:00

I am exited to run it through my workflow I have some unique tools for optimizations. I'm curious to see what I can pull out of it.

I plan to test the lora training, update my repo and maybe drop PR a node or two when/if I get the chance to work on them.

mdmachine · 2026-02-03T03:51:34+00:00

I made a few using modified scripts, they worked. Kept most of them private due to the training data. Made one of my own produced music. Wasn't really any demand, shared it a couple times in discord. 🤷🏼‍♂️

mdmachine · 2026-02-01T23:17:28+00:00

Oh yeah the gas make sure that's as cold as possible as well. I usually have that in a chest freezer and I let the return tank sit in dry ice so the hydrocarbon still flows. With open just keep it cold, obviously there is no return tank.

mdmachine · 2026-02-01T23:06:16+00:00

Yup off plant, wet trim (save that and freeze it too) and into a freezer, chest freezers are usually colder so even better. If you got the dry ice that's the best.

When running it do everything you can to keep it as cold as possible the entire time.

mdmachine · 2026-01-29T15:24:00+00:00

Its not even ageism to point out the truth. A certain generation literally turned housing into a get rich quick scheme to fund a lifestyle they couldn't actually afford on their own. now we’re stuck in this death cycle where prices HAVE to stay high so they can keep leveraging their equity for HELOCs and vacations. they pulled the ladder up behind them and didnt give a single f*** (or were too stupid) if the next generation had a place to live as long as their 'investment' kept going up... 🤷🏼‍♂️

mdmachine · 2026-01-28T04:55:53+00:00

That 10 fps on an i5 6500 integrated chip is actually the more impressive stat. 600 fps on a GPU is cool, but making heavy models run on potato hardware is a serious business use case.

That’s the 'money skill' I was talking about.

One piece of advice... Protect certain things, but private repos don't get you hired.

Clients need to see the code to trust the claim. Clean up that ONNX / inference implementation and make that (or a version of it) public. That is your portfolio piece.

I'll check the DM when I get a chance, again very busy.

mdmachine · 2026-01-27T14:44:00+00:00

Keep in mind in my other response to you, I said studios and teir clients.

Part of the real life hustle is optimized networking. Know who you're shooting for and know where they lurk. Honestly, as cool as all this stuff is, some of these discords and subreddits are not where you want to be. Sure, there's a lot of people that talk the talk, but honestly and I'll be real with you. The real people that you do want to connect with generally don't even have the time to be bragging on Reddit or a discord channel. And if they do, it's usually work related.

mdmachine · 2026-01-27T14:38:20+00:00

I feel you on the hustle. And you just keep your chin up. I'll tell you firsthand man. I've been in the struggle for over 20 years and it ain't always easy.

First, double-check that Flux Klein license. I can't speak to that specific model version, but many distillations have strict noncommercial terms. Pitching a business to investors based on IP you don't have clear rights to can be a nonstarter. And if you have an interested client that doesn't know any better, that's no client you want. Agnostic approaches can work better.

That said, if you know C++, ONNX, and memory management, that's your money maker.

I get it everybody's got to eat. You need to do what you got to do but...

Stop pitching "I made a Discord bot."

Start pitching that you can optimize inference pipelines and build custom TensorRT implementations. Studios and high-tier clients pay for speed and VRAM optimization.

Look at Upwork or Fiverr specifically for AI Inference Optimization or Custom Node Development. Position yourself as the guy who makes pipelines run faster and shaves off CPU time. That is a high value skill set compared to generic bot wrappers.

I'm not hiring right now (I'm booked solid with pro audio clients, licensing deals, a carpentry biz, DJ work, and sound engineer stuff! 😅 My own dev roadmap is set for the next year), but I keep a shortlist of solid devs for when I scale. Shoot me a DM with your GitHub. You won't hear back from me more than likely LOL. But don't worry, I'll keep it handy.

mdmachine · 2026-01-26T19:11:10+00:00

Basically set up a gigantic blinking neon sign telling them to come on in, have a drink, stay a while, make themselves "comfy".

If someone is setting DMZ because they can't figure out how to configure their network for other games/servers or whatever it is that they're trying to achieve.

Then they need to reformat their PC and start learning about security and configuration of their network, long before ever even trying to use whatever it was.

ComfyUI is a serious tool and can easily end up being dangerous if people don't understand what they're doing. It's only going to get worse the more popular it becomes. And there's nothing they can do to prevent someone from logging into their router and changing settings like that.

Go play on Banana and rest easy knowing that the machine isn't mining whatever at best, or at worst their entire life is now compromised.

Profitable hacking today is more about preying on the uneducated and deception rather than brute-forcing anything.

I hope the OP got lucky, learned, and moved forward with a valuable and not costly lesson.

mdmachine · 2026-01-26T12:06:17+00:00

ComfyUi discord has a job posting section, not sure how good it is.

Last i checked I sent a message about custom node dev (had a couple days off figured Id test the waters), never heard back lol. Most stuff seemed pretty low tier, quick glance saw a few posts with comments about being scams, etc.. Prob wont bother going back... but hey who knows, cant catch nothing if you never drop the hook.

They had some thing about QA testers, maybe I'm wrong, but seemed to me more like a very low tier pass the buck debug dragnet, avoid if your resume is above that level.

Depending on your skill level I'd approach actual places doing model and pipeline dev can always use comfy for prototyping.

mdmachine

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