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Hans Zimmer | Live in Concert

This is simply amazing. Very strong Pink Floyd vibes for me. I feel like Zimmer has stepped out of the shadow of John Williams and may now be the premiere movie soundtrack guy. There are some parts that feel like something Williams would do and then there are other parts

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Lazarus and the Local Model

Finally, in this post, we put our money where our mouth is. We dragged a 2016 enterprise relic out of the closet — NAY, out of the grave, a single Intel Xeon running on agonizingly slow DDR3 RAM with absolutely no GPU to speak of — and forced it to run a

· 1 min · Dev / AI / Tech

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World of Warcraft by Daniel Lisi ( Boss Fight Books )

I am slowly making my way through the Boss Fight series of books.  I have an affinity for these short form books that tackle one topic and the Boss Fight Books are great, as are the 33 1/3rd book series for music. I finished Daniel Lisi’s World of

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The Coming Local "Good Enough" Models

I don't think it is very hard to predict the exponential rise of INT in large LLMs in the near future, but what about on prem local models and their rise?  Every day I am seeing reports of people able to run decent models on their own M4

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Fallout Season 2

We finished Season 2 for Fallout last week.   SPOILERS ahead, don’t read if you care. —------------------------------------------------------------- Season 2 was pretty solid.  I think we were a few episodes in before my wife asked about a specific character arc and I told her I didn't have an answer because

· 2 min · Movies / TV

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The Frontier

A 16-year-old with no credentials and no capital could just do things. The world of bits offered the freedom to build without being drowned in arbitrary constraints, in a way that didn’t require assembling vast capital or prestige or connections, where your creativity and work could speak

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