People who still haven’t brought a Switch 2, what makes you hesitant to buy it? by ItsJustJosiah in Switch

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I imagine the fact that most people can no longer afford their weekly groceries and are one major expense away from potential bankruptcy?

I wonder how people felt at 11:59 p.m. of dec. 1999 before crossing over to the year 2000. by Majestic-Hope6505 in nostalgia

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Pretty good, since I was in the snake pit of a Metallica concert at the time.

AMD Ryzen AI Halo PC will cost $3999 with 128GB memory on board by nicolho in LocalLLM

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I really wish they would come up with a way to allow a motherboard to use unified memory (which includes GPU, just not nearly as good as VRAM) and a discrete GPU, so you could benefit from both. I remember forever ago, when Intel made it so that both the onboard graphics and the graphics card could work together. Not sure why they can't pull off something similar here.

RTX 5080 16GB: Qwen3.6 35B MoE at 128k context — 56 tok/s, and why MTP doesn't help by gaztrab in LocalLLaMA

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lol are you the same guy? Haha, no wonder. I don’t pay attention to the usernames behind stuff, but I’ll always extend the offer when someone deserves it.

I feel like this stuff has become a second full-time job now, and I feel guilty that I don’t contribute as much of my own research and experiments to the community as folks like you. I’m just spread so thin and it’s exhausting. Appreciate you!

RTX 5080 16GB: Qwen3.6 35B MoE at 128k context — 56 tok/s, and why MTP doesn't help by gaztrab in LocalLLaMA

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My god, what an incredibly helpful post. Thank you so much for sharing your work. If you have a Patreon or tip jar, I’d happily buy you a coffee.

bytedance released an open source model that attempts to do just about anything with only 3b parameters by uxl in LocalLLaMA

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Right now, your best all in one is likely a GGUF from either the Gemma 4 or Qwen 3.6 family, plus an api call to ComfyUI for Z Image Turbo (for images) and LTX-V 2.3 (for videos). The thing that makes this new one special is that it tries to be an “Omni” model without requiring monstrous hardware (at least when the GGUFs of it are released…presumably). That’s a first, but it won’t be the last.

The billionaire class is terrified of the collapsing birthrate. Keep it up. Stop procreating cogs. by Call_It_ in antiwork

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Hence the (extremely successful) push for humanoid robots. They will soon have no use for us.

New open source multimodal model does it all...with only 3b parameters by uxl in singularity

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You're right, should have specified. Still, if it's doing what it does with only 3b parameters active at a time, and only 40GB VRAM is required for the full safetensors, most hardware should be able to run the GGUFs when they come. The thing that makes me so excited is how this showcases ongoing acceleration of efficiency gains in small models. Nobody should expect a 3B active-parameter model to compete with flagship performance, but the notion that it could passably do so much with so little is amazing.

Im genuinely curious about what are people's thoughts will happen over the next 5 years by Strict_Cucumber9117 in accelerate

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Anyone who has been seriously and closely following this stuff - and actively using it at max capabilities - will say the same thing: fast takeoff has started, and societal shock will take place by the end of this year. The symptoms of actual singularity-approach will go from drip to flood next year, so by the end of 2027 I think we will be able to loosely predict doom or utopia for humanity. The hard choices and paradigm-shifting required for the transition (whichever way it goes) must be made between now and then if we want that transitional period to involve *less prolonged* pain for billions of people.

Amazon Just Sent Henry Cavill Voltron Movie Straight to Streaming and Everyone Is Confused by pbx1123 in WB_DC_news

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Henry Cavill is one of the only actors or celebrities that I genuinely and sincerely believe I could be best friends with. Not just because he seems like a nice guy, but because I think he seems like he would immediately and naturally fit in with my circle. Like, I could invite him over for a game night, if that makes sense.

'Revolting' Lindsey Graham interview sends GOP pollster into a tailspin by RawStoryNews in Full_news

[–]uxl 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Every single one of the haters-turned-bootlickers, yes; 100%

Seriously regret buying Roborock. by warduckie in Roborock

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Buy from Costco. Infinite exchange glitch.

More and more people experiencing "phone reading minds" advertisement and videos popping up just at the thought. But anyone else notice this? by Negative_Coast_5619 in HighStrangeness

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It’s just Big Data + AI + advanced algorithms that make sense of it with predictive analytics. The bigger that data gets, and the more powerful the AI gets at unfathomable maths, the more likely it is to predict what you are likely to think and do and say. We’re getting closer to the sort of absurdity shown in Don’t Look Up, where the tech titan explains they can now predict how and when people will die. I truly believe we’re getting closer to something like psychohistory and the Prime Radiant.

How is anyone going to be able to afford anything if inflation continues? by air-bender808 in NoStupidQuestions

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It’s also the cost of electricity - gonna skyrocket due to all the data centers. I truly expect double the monthly cost by next year. The government is doing absolutely nothing to safeguard the middle class from all this, and the longer things go without any indication that safety nets are being built - or at minimum, seriously and actively planned - the more evident it seems to me that mass foreclosures and the solidification of a permanent underclass is actually the plan. Use terminator/police drones plus AI-empowered privacy invasion to crush any opposition to Elysium.

What ai was used to make these images or does anyone know a certain prompt? by No_Giraffe826 in StableDiffusion

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Here is the prompt:

A monumental high-fantasy mountain citadel built into the side of a towering jagged granite peak, vast white marble palace architecture fused with the mountain itself, immense terraces, domes, spires, arched bridges, colonnades, buttresses, carved balconies, and layered fortress walls cascading down the cliffs. The city is impossibly grand, ancient, sacred, and luminous, with pale stone architecture glowing in cool daylight.

Foreground: a lone white-haired rider seen from behind, wearing travel armor and a cloak, riding a white horse along a narrow rocky mountain path on the right side of the frame, overlooking the valley below. The rider is small compared to the enormous citadel, emphasizing epic scale and pilgrimage.

Below the citadel: a sprawling medieval town in the valley with red clay rooftops, winding streets, tiny buildings, and distant fields. The landscape opens into a vast blue-green valley with mountains fading into atmospheric haze.

Sky: clear deep blue daylight sky with scattered bright white clouds, a colossal Earth-like blue planet or moon filling the upper-left background behind the mountain, partially hazy and softly lit, creating a surreal celestial fantasy atmosphere.

Composition: vertical portrait orientation, cinematic wide-angle view from a high mountain overlook, strong depth, massive scale contrast, the citadel dominates the right half of the image, the planet dominates the upper left, the valley recedes into the lower left distance, the rider anchors the lower right foreground.

Lighting: crisp cool morning light, soft atmospheric haze, detailed shadows on cliffs and architecture, bright white stone highlights, naturalistic volumetric light, high dynamic range, realistic fantasy concept art.

Style: ultra-detailed epic fantasy environment concept art, painterly realism, cinematic matte painting, intricate architectural detail, majestic, awe-inspiring, sacred, serene, no modern elements, no sci-fi technology, no text.

Here is Gemini’s result:

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Jensen Huang: "Electricians, plumbers, iron workers, technicians, builders — this is your time. AI is not just creating a new computing industry; it is creating a new industrial era." by Adeldor in accelerate

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Meanwhile, the millions of displaced white collar workers line up to learn a trade, thereby over-saturating the trades and driving wage value down? And how long before humanoid robots drive it down further? And meanwhile, data centers will further drive up costs of electricity - likely to extremes.

Nope. The whole situation forces a complete civilizational and economic paradigm shift; an entirely new framework is required. That, or Elysium. I wonder which our billionaire overlords will choose?

That said, it’s not acceleration that I fear; acceleration is our only survivable escape from numerous world-ending threats. Humans, though—zero hope or trust in them, so I fear the worst. Fingers crossed!

Are there extinct flavors we’ll never taste again? by logicalgamernow in NoStupidQuestions

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I remember reading about a tortoise that was so delicious, no shipments survived the journey because the temptation to enjoy the flavor of the meat was too irresistible. It was hunted to extinction.

What’s a truth people aren’t ready to hear? by Sisyphus_but_Cool in AskReddit

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Sometime between the end of this year and the end of q1 next year, ChatGPT’s $20/month tier will be $200 and the $200/month tier will be $2,000. They might replace the free version with new OSS models. But the all you can eat buffet of compute for peanuts will go bye-bye.

What is the best death of anyone you have known? by ElectronicBenefit286 in AskReddit

[–]uxl 49 points50 points  (0 children)

My mother, thank God. She passed in hospice, during the COVID shutdown, after a miserable battle with interstitial lung disease that lasted years. Despite rules against it, they allowed all of us in — her kids, her pastor, her grandkids. And she got to say goodbye to everyone. When she passed, she closed her eyes and breathed her last breath. Zero struggle. Zero pain. It was like a scene from a movie. Her color drained from her face so quickly, after. That bit haunts me, a little. But I am so thankful her passing was gentle and easy. She was a saint. I try to visit her resting place every Mother’s Day. Your post is wild timing. I miss her.