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I'm still digging into a mystery about the models I've been training; although an increasing number of them beat the OpenAI GPT-2 small weights on the narrow technical measure of the loss they get on a test set, they're not as good at an...
Pfff, it's been a while, right? I had sort of promised myself that I'd spend more time here, writing this and that, and a bit of the other. But like most things with me these days, nothing much came of it. Priorities changed, interests...
Dolly Parton, pictured in 1988 Country Music isn’t really my thing, but I was very sad when I heard the news a couple of days ago about the death of Dolly Parton. So sad, in fact, that I felt I had to wait a while before posting...
Record store shelves once told stories long before anyone dropped a needle on vinyl. A cover was an artist’s first impression, a single image meant to stop browsers mid-flip and pull them toward the turntable. Between the 1970s and the...
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A visit to the Lake District would not be complete without at least one walk to the top of a big hill. What with spouse and I not being regular users of shanks pony least of all up mountains I asked around for recommendations for a...
This is from The Intersection column that appears every other Monday in Mint. If the United States had not coerced India to restrict its relationship with Iran in 2018, we would likely have bilateral annual trade of over $20 billion...
I am using the typewriter that Catherine Hennessey gave me to type gallery labels for a show that Lisa and I are mounting on Monday. It’s a very satisfying machine to use, and I’m very happy with the results.Come to The Gallery starting...
The LGBT community is mourning the loss of two queer icons in two days: Dolly Parton, the honorary drag queen and fierce voice for tolerance, and Tim Curry, whose arch performance as Frank N Furter in Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975,...
The battle of France is over. I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Winston Churchill - June 18th 1940 Churchill’s famous speech on the 18th June in 1940 came a few short weeks after the British Expeditionary forces...
Qwen3.8 27B benchmarked on a Mac Studio M3 Ultra: Ollama and llama.cpp numbers, the 1-bit quant tested, RAM math, and the hardware that actually fits.
Some weeks back, in midsummer, I sat at my worktable as night drew to an end, when sunrise broke out magnificently in my window wall (see photo #1 in my 8/25 posting “Where I live”) and filled me with joy at the gift of a new day. Also...
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Oh man, did I enjoy this "choose your own adventure" (COYA) book. If you're a regular reader, you may recall my previous reviews in this genre, but this new volume is the best one yet. Yes, it's a new volume. The publisher, Chooseco, is...
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