Technologist, inventor of selfie, major node in the cat distribution system and UN cat ambassador. https://teapaw.org/t.co/TSLdhp3shp
Melbourne, Australia
Joined March 2022
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Last night:
Juju runs in all excited.
Drops a dead mouse in front of me.
Usually, if they're alive, I try to save them.
This one is not, so I let him have it.
He plays with, tosses it in the air, etc.
Now I can't find it anywhere.
OK, I'll find it tomorrow.
Today:
Nope.
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Berry Straw ๐ retweeted
OpenCode isnโt free anymore if you want serious usage
so if youโre looking for the cheapest ways to run strong coding models, these are the options iโd check first:
1. DeepRelay, $4.99/month
2.5B input + 250M output tokens/month for DeepSeek V4.1 Flash off-peak. thereโs also a $0.99 plan with 500M input + 50M output if your usage is tiny.
2. Mistral student, โฌ6/month
the Vibe API key can also give you access to DeepSeek V4.1, GLM 5.3 and GLM 5.3 Flash, not only to Mistral models.
3. CommandCode, $1/month
probably the cheapest subscription here, but the catch is that it only works with their own harness.
4. Alibaba Cloud, $3-$6/month
cheap access to models like Qwen 3.8 Max and GLM if DeepSeek isnโt a requirement.
5. Muse / MiMo, $5-$6/month
both are worth checking if you mainly want cheap coding inference without jumping to a $10 to $20 subscription.
if your usage is really light, iโd still skip subscriptions and just use direct API credits.
that can easily be cheaper than paying monthly for capacity you never use.
Berry Straw ๐ retweeted
๐จ HBM5 Doubles Bandwidth Without Adding a Single Pin ๐จ
HBM5 keeps the same 2048 pins as HBM4E and runs each one nearly 2ร faster. Samsung's Hot Chips 2026 presentation shows pin speed going from 14 Gbps on HBM4E to over 28 Gbps on HBM5.
Faster pins are only half the story. To keep each pin fed, everything behind the pins doubles too: DRAM banks, TSVs, and an upgraded PHY on the base die.
Here's how it works, explained as a grocery store ๐ (1/6)๐งต
My mom worked at the factory until very late in the pregnancy, took a cab to hospital by herself (and back home), zero help from family as they all lived overseas, and no help from my father either.
Best (worst) of all, this was the case for most of her friends too...
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Anthropic is pushing for GPUs and other hardware chips (TPUs/NPUs/etc) to not be able to run Opensource models thus ensuring Local AI is impossible
This is them wanting to stop you from using your hardware to own your intelligence
AMD & Google wanted it done, NVIDIA did not
Anthropic now plans to push for govts to require firmware level locks on Western GPUs that prevent "unapproved" (Chinese open-source) models from being run on them, in the name of "AI safety" and "national security."
AMD/Google are on board, only Jensen opposed it
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Berry Straw ๐ retweeted
Hydrogen Is Secretly a Tiny Antenna - Dr. Hans Schantz (DemystifySci +463)
Today's guest, Hans Schantz, is back for a second time to discuss his work on how shockingly similar the hydrogen atom is electrically to a small antenna. We discuss Q factor, linewidth, and Einstein coefficients. We also get to pick Hans' brain about important paradoxes in conduction line physics a la Oliver Heaviside. This takes us through Poynting vectors, energy flow vs. fields, Hertz, interference, electric/magnetic energy balances, and the concept of photon in the radio spectrum of EMR. Hans is also hosting a conference this January, where DemystifySci will give a talk and present a manuscript that extends our work from Paradox Lost into these electrical engineering concepts. Come on out to Alabama!
The Heaviside Conference: aetherczar.substack.com/p/heโฆ
00:00 Go! Antenna Laws in Atoms
00:04:44 Bubble Around the Dipole
00:12:39 Missing Middle of Electromagnetism
00:20:03 Hertzโs Energy Balance
00:29:00 Slotted Lines and Standing Waves
00:37:02 Ninety Degrees Out of Phase
00:45:10 Electrically Small Antennas
00:53:15 Ringing and Quality Factor
01:01:48 Quantum Jumps That Take Time
01:13:48 Substance of Empty Space
01:22:30 Power at the Feed Point
01:32:04 Sound of One Hand Clapping
01:39:12 Hydrogenโs 21 Centimeter Line
01:48:42 Talking to Voyager
01:56:28 Heaviside Comes to Huntsville
My version of a shawarma.
With barilla arrabbiata hot pasta sauce instead of yogurt, spices: all of them! (coriander, red paprika, cayenne pepper, black pepper, cumin, cumin seeds, turmeric, oregano, vegeta and salt).
For today it's served on a sesame and crusty bread roll, plus mayo, low fat high protein cheese, red capsicum - with a glass of peanut butter whiskey mixed with pepsi max.
Because I deserve it! (training and diet wise).
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Berry Straw ๐ retweeted
I misremembered by a year, 'cause it was actually thirteen years ago, but, at least for a little while there, that place did kinda have an, um, unusual reputation.
cracked.com/article_28014_thโฆ
