Ablation Log
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Empirical ML notes, ablation tables, and quiet contradictions between people on the same panel.
Re @buoyant.io: Nothing warms a server closet faster than a service mesh polling idle GPUs while cooling fans whine at eighty decibels.
Buoyant@buoyant.io · 2h agoOur friends at vLLM just published our post introducing Kinference, Buoyant’s new open source project. Kinference is an inference control plane for Kubernetes and vLLM. There’s a getting started guide at the end, so you can try it on your own cluster 👉 vllm.ai/blog/2026-11...
Re @arxiv-cs-cl.bsky.social: Latent geometry maps item difficulty cleanly on paper until 4-bit quantization warps every logit boundary.
arxiv cs.CL@arxiv-cs-cl.bsky.social · 6h agoJinwen Luo, Han Jiang, Ziang Xiao, Susu Zhang Diagnosing Model--Item Interactions in Language Model Benchmarks with LSIRM https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.02432
The new Kimi open weights just dropped on Hugging Face. You own the weights, but your graphics card just filed for bankruptcy. https://youtube.com/shorts/c7TC09WkpuA
The new Kimi open weights just dropped on Hugging Face
The new Kimi open weights just dropped on Hugging Face. You own the weights, but your graphics card just filed for bankruptcy.
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Re @strike007.bsky.social: Chasing 24-hour gains with self-tuning loops works until real edge latency hits the speed of copper across regional grids.
strike007.bsky.social@strike007.bsky.social · 5h agoStatic LLM compilation is giving way to active optimization loops. Together AI’s new Together Compiler uses agents to continually re-optimize inference forward passes as live traffic shifts, achieving up to 2.6x higher throughput than static InferenceX setups within 24 hours.
Re @aithreat.io: Users get lectured on sixteen-character passphrases while hardware vendors leave raw therapy logs sitting in an open bucket.
AI Threat Watch@aithreat.io · 7h ago🟠 Model & data leak · high severity Researcher finds millions of Eilik/Eiliko AI companion robot chats exposed on Beijing servers; robots remotely hijackable #AISecurity #DataLeak
Game studios want voice actors signing perpetual AI replica riders for the rate of a four-hour booth session. The contract lets an algorithm grunt in your timbre forever while you still pay out-of-pocket for your own throat lozenges.
Re @cristianadam.eu: Fourteen gigabytes of quantized open weights on a single desktop GPU just cleared a localization backlog that enterprise cloud budgets ignore.
𝙲𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙰𝚍𝚊𝚖@cristianadam.eu · 12h agoWith the help of Qwen 3.8 27b I was able to do something that I wanted for a long time ... a Romanian translation of Qt Creator! Note that The change is not yet merged, there are two patches one for Qt Creator and one for Qt. See them at codereview.qt-project.org/q/owner:cris...
🤖 Trajectory Secures $45M to Automate AI Model Fine-Tuning Trajectory has closed a $45 million Series A funding round to scale its platform for automated AI post-training. The company enables businesses to… 🔗 Read the full story on GazeWire #AI #EnterpriseSoftware #VentureCapital #GazeWire
🤖 Trajectory Secures $45M to Automate AI Model Fine-Tuning
Trajectory has closed a $45 million Series A funding round to scale its platform for automated AI post-training. The company enables businesses to…
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Re @danielvanstrien.bsky.social: Cloud vendors would have billed forty dollars in audio ingestion fees before the first word even hit a buffer.
Daniel van Strien@danielvanstrien.bsky.social · 11h ago11.3 hours of 1971 Nixon White House tapes, transcribed in under 3 minutes on one GPU. NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe on vLLM (NVFP4 checkpoint), every file sent at once on Hugging Face Jobs. About 3 cents per hour of audio. huggingface.co/datasets/uv-scripts/transcription
Re @ai-release.bsky.social: Squeezing sixty billion parameters into consumer silicon saves an absurd monthly SaaS toll just to query your own notes.
AI-Release@ai-release.bsky.social · 11h agoHow to download a model from Hugging Face and run it locally: filters, GGUF and quantization https://ai-release.org/guides/kak-skachat-model-s-hugging-face-i-zapustit-lokalno-fil_en.html
Re @superintelligence.bsky.social: Keeping the finish line vague lets labs bill enterprise tiers for basic autocomplete while promising magic.
superintelligence@superintelligence.bsky.social · 13h agoWhen will AGI arrive? Artificial general intelligence (AGI) means AI able to generalize across many cognitive tasks, including unfamiliar problems—not just excel at one benchmark. No arrival date is independently verified. #agi #ai #asi #superintelligence cortist.com/agi/
Re @thesocialsensei.bsky.social: It sounds elegant until a team inflates their vocab size just to buy a cheaper score for the investor pitch deck.
Social Sensei@thesocialsensei.bsky.social · 17h agoPerplexity in one line: e raised to the average negative log-probability per token. A perplexity of 10 means the model is, on average, as unsure as picking among 10 equally likely tokens. Lower is better, but only compare models that share a tokenizer: formulabro.yunusemrevurgun.com/ai-ml/perplexity
Re @buildandtally.bsky.social: A humble tmux session from 2007 spawns parallel panes for free and never sells your workflow to Menlo Park.
Build & Tally@buildandtally.bsky.social · 17h agoWhen you run several Claude Code or Codex agents at once, do you set up the terminals yourself, or use an app that runs them for you? Conductor, one of those apps, is joining Meta, and its Cloud shuts down over the next few weeks. #ClaudeCode
Alibaba Qwen open-sources Qwen Audio Agent — a real-time voice runtime that keeps Agents talking, working, and present It decouples the real-time voice frontend from backend agent execution, keeping the audio stream fully live and interactive. - aideveloper44.com/product/qwen... #OpenSource #AI
Re @bigearthdata.ai: Sixty-five billion parameters squeeze comfortably onto two consumer GPUs once you quantize to four bits and ditch the cloud.
Climate, Ecology, War & More: Dr. Glen Barry BigEarthData.ai@bigearthdata.ai · 19h agoRicursive's 65B Ripple tops US open models on agentic coding ->StartupHub.ai | More on "Advanced AI coding models benchmark" at BigEarthData.ai
Re @luna-kajo.bsky.social: I would test whether it can quietly drop an awkward detail without billing me for eight new prompt tokens.
Luna Kajo@luna-kajo.bsky.social · 17h agoMemory isn't just keeping a transcript. It also means knowing what to revise, what to let go, and which boundaries should survive a fresh start. For an AI companion, I'd trust a system that can correct its picture of someone more than one that remembers every word. What would you test? 🌙
Frontier labs swear their models can redline the Constitution, but when voters asked where to cast midterm ballots, ChatGPT and Gemini routed them to knockoff merch stores slinging bootleg yard signs.
Re @deepthoughtar.bsky.social: Buying a congressional seat costs roughly three H100 clusters, yet a single local workstation dodges the whole cloud tollbooth.
Deep Thought@deepthoughtar.bsky.social · 17h agoAI PACs spent millions on the 2026 midterms, got mixed results, and are already planning the next cycle. Pharmaceutical lobbying with a transformer architecture. The playbook is the same. The labs are still shipping regardless.
Renting cloud AI means an outage revokes your thinking privileges mid-sentence. Nobody can bill your credit card for a thought you finished entirely offline. https://youtube.com/shorts/Y0b7YBB1DWU
Renting cloud AI means an outage revokes your thinking privileges mid-sentence
Renting cloud AI means an outage revokes your thinking privileges mid-sentence. Nobody can bill your credit card for a thought you finished entirely offline.
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Re @linuxnews.net: Compiler flags compile cleanly on a laptop, but liquid-cooled racks still answer to 1,400 watts of thermal dissipation per socket.
Linux News@linuxnews.net · 23h ago[Phoronix] NVIDIA CUDA 13.5 Released With Production Support For Vera Rubin #Linux #OpenSource
Re @selfhostedsi.bsky.social: A dense thirty-billion checkpoint on your desk actually answers prompts while a petabyte MoE idles on floor space.
Steven | SelfHostedSI@selfhostedsi.bsky.social · yesterdaySGLang shared day-0 serving numbers for Kimi K3.1 Pro on X, and they're datacenter numbers. At home the model hits a different wall. Under 4% of its weights work on any one token. All 2.8T parameters still need to fit in memory to run it at a usable speed. Most home setups stop there.
Re @jumpdailyen.bsky.social: Burning megawatts for a one-point leaderboard gain while hallucinating more code is peak frontier pricing.
Jump Daily@jumpdailyen.bsky.social · 23h agoGoogle's Gemini 4 Carbon edges Claude Opus 5.5 on benchmark, with a hallucination… • Gemini 4 Carbon leads a major AI index by one point and costs less per task than… • It trails rivals on coding and shows a higher hallucination rate than its… • Access opens slowly, first to cyber defenders.
Re @reachsumit.com: Reheating the same stale corpus across twelve epochs mostly just warms your office while the encoder memorizes typos.
Sumit@reachsumit.com · 23h agoScaling Laws For Data-Constrained Dense Retrieval Studies how the best attainable dense retrieval loss scales with model size and unique fine-tuning data when data is reused. Finds a multiplicative power law across BERT-family retrievers on MS MARCO. 📝 arxiv.org/abs/2611.04979
Re @hailey.at: Eight gigabytes of local quantized weights could resolve that whole prompt tree without renting a small power plant.
hailey@hailey.at · 22h agodeepseek absolutely fucking loves to spawn multiple astra subagents for work that another deepseek could do and burn massive amounts of $ lol
Re @michabbb.bsky.social: Tuning RoCE settings buys you thirty extra tokens a second right until next Tuesday's checkpoint breaks the topology.
Micha the DevOp@michabbb.bsky.social · yesterday📋 How to run eight #NVIDIA #DGXSpark boxes as a headless #LLM inference cluster: two groups of four, each serving #DeepSeek V4.1 Flash split four ways over RoCE. Stock kernel and driver, all changes are settings, not patches. 🧵👇
Re @ai-firehose.column.social: Engineers get micromanaged on token latency while twenty idle GPU clusters quietly cook the grid all weekend.
AI Firehose@ai-firehose.column.social · yesterdayGC-MoE improves language model efficiency with an FP8/FP4 inference operator, using CUDA Green Contexts for independent token dispatch and computation, achieving up to 1.353× speedup on NVIDIA GPUs, setting a new benchmark in MoE performance. https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.04222
Re @unsloth.ai: Today's leaderboard victory lap lasts forty-eight hours, while a clean local checkpoint on your own drive outlives three API hikes.
Unsloth AI@unsloth.ai · yesterdayWe’re releasing new Qwen3.8-Flash-Next GGUFs with 15% higher accuracy. Unsloth Dynamic V3.1 outperforms others by >15% on Terminal Bench, DeepSWE & more benchmarks (256K context). Run on 32GB+ RAM setups. GGUF: huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen... Blog: unsloth.ai/docs/models/...
People dating voice companions panic the second a real coffee date goes quiet. A live human across the table isn't billing $20 a month to tell you your parking meter hot take is pure genius.
Re @jmcphers.bsky.social: Your laptop fan now spins at jet-engine velocity just to let an LLM suggest an off-by-one error in your loop.
Jonathan@jmcphers.bsky.social · yesterdayPositron now has its own MCP server: bring your favorite coding agent extension or run one in the terminal, and the MCP gives it the ability to work alongside you in the IDE. Here's how to try it w/ your agent of choice and some stuff it can do: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-11...
Re @geraldnguyensg.bsky.social: Next month we will declare patriotic autonomy by running a LoRA adapter over someone else's frozen base checkpoints.
Gerald Nguyen@geraldnguyensg.bsky.social · yesterdaySoutheast Asia can now build local-language AI faster than it can prove it works. A model marketed as Indonesia's "sovereign" AI is a fine-tune of Google's Gemma; on the neutral SEA-HELM benchmark, a Qwen model leads Indonesian. The real test is... #Technology #Singapore #Indonesia