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If we do not get ASI in 36 months, which most people do not actually think we will, then the result of a plan like this will be that America puts a shotgun to its own face on its remaining economically dynamic sector (chips+AI) and China wins it by 2040.
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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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Two years ago I open sourced my DIY CNC machine, which cost me £2,655.80 and 9 months of my spare time. The Fusion 360 project, the drawings, the bill of materials, the STLs, the wiring diagrams and the Mach3 profile, all for free.
People ask why I didn't sell the plans... the answer is simple. Selling the plans would have defeated the whole point of the project, shutting out the very people I built it for.
My goal was to build a capable, sturdy machine for as little money as possible. Industrial-grade larger footprint machines are well out of reach for most hobbyists and small woodworking businesses. With a few minor trade-offs, you can build my machine for a fraction of the price, with nothing more than basic workshop tools.
10,000+ downloads later, people all over the world send me photos of the machine I designed, now fully built and operational in their own workshops.
That's what I love about open source. It's for people. Nobody needs permission or a subscription to build their own tools. You can repair them, upgrade them, and write your own software, because you know them inside and out.
This fills me with joy like nothing else.
ALT This is the alt text for the photo of you with the CNC, the one Content wrote for the LinkedIn post: Gareth (thehardwareguy) stands in his wooden workshop next to the DIY CNC machine he designed and built, then open sourced. It has an aluminium gantry on linear rails, a water-cooled spindle in the middle and an open electrical cabinet full of wiring behind it. A large MDF spoilboard covers the bed, which sits on a sturdy timber frame.
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Joel Salatin's first plan to farm full time in Virginia was simple: milk ten cows and sell the milk straight to his neighbors.
That plan was flat illegal, since Virginia bans direct retail sales of raw milk to shoppers.
He later wrote an entire book about rules like that, titled Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal.
Skip the middleman and find a family farm near you on Localize.
Sources: Mother Earth News, Reason
Wife was in disagreement with a very large concrete column. Her position was that if the front of the car cleared, then the back should also. The concrete column disagreed.
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Worst spy ever. But def behavior of a person trying to flex.
Photos said to be shared by Alice Huang (Huang Le) from her own WeChat feed - almost like she was showing off and wanted people to know that she had special relationship with Jensen.
Shouldn’t a spy be more low-key and cautious than this?
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You people act like Jensen committed some outrageous crime like we live in some fucking Puritan world.
Meanwhile Eric Swalwell, is still on the Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet, and Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance.
I've lost count of how many side pieces Elon had, and he controls AI, media, and our space launch capability.
And he did not go to Epstein island.
The double standard is out of control.
Next to SF General and the fenty bus stop. Crazy.
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Tim Cook admits Apple has never once tried to beat competitors to market: “The philosophy has always been to be the best, not the first.”
Poboys Kitchen in Potrero makes their waffles using a beignet dough. Had it earlier today. May go back again tomorrow.
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Home across the street is going on sale. I'm kinda afraid of what that will do to my property tax.
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I want to give a huge shoutout to @loktar00, @gospaceport, and @superalesha . These fine people have been in the local AI & local compute scene for a while, consistently delivery common person friendly content, staying true to facts, and always principled.
They don't live on endorsements or fame; they live on spreading knowledge. Most things they deploy are accessible and affordable. They will tell you when it's a bad deal or when the math doesn't math for the average person. They are not the $50K rig crowd; I'm sure they can be if they wanted to but that isn't their thing.
They are not locked to any harness, model, or hardware vendor. They have their preferences but they are not cultish. Perfectly suited for the intellectually curious.
I see a day when they will release models of their own, post-trained on their content, and people can access as as a trusted advisor. I think that is the future of specialized ai.
Thank you gents. I appreciate all the work you are doing.
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Your "private" local AI might be open to the whole internet right now.
I run local models every day, so I watched all 46 minutes of this DEF CON 34 talk tonight. Security researchers took llama.cpp and Ollama apart and found 13 bugs. 11 of them are now CVEs.
The number that got me: about 151,000 llama.cpp and Ollama servers reachable from the internet with no authentication at all.
The worst demo is Ollama. Upload a GGUF with a fake tensor shape, ask Ollama to quantize it, and it reads past the buffer and writes heap memory into the new model file. One more API call pushes that "model" to the attacker's registry. In the demo the leaked heap had the chat in it, with a credit card number and a secret key. They count 30,000+ open Ollama servers.
Ollama fixed it about 3 weeks after the report. Respect.
The llama.cpp story is uglier, per the talk: reported in July 2025, advisories closed without CVEs, patch PRs closed without explanation.
I still trust local more than any API. But local means your prompts stay with you. It does not mean nobody can talk to your server.
Update Ollama. Do not expose the port without a reverse proxy and auth. Do not leave model upload open on a box that holds your chats.
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📖 The Ultimate MoE Training Handbook 📖
We spent 1/2M GPUh to optimize MoE training and wrote the most comprehensive blog about it. With 30k words and 50+ interactive figures it covers everything from profiling to large cluster training.
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Just because we got people enrolled in a college doesn't mean they suddenly gain the capacity to do college level work. Things to ponder.
The rate at which individuals with IQs below 90 (the US average is around 98) completed college has increased approximately 6-fold in men and 10-fold in women relative to rates in the previous generation.
Today, the average college student isn't all that much smarter than the average American. A degree from most colleges signals little more than what a high school diploma signaled 100 years ago.
It's worth noting that the position of the Democratic Party has been that college enrollment should be expanded, and most of the progressive wing of the party believes that college education ought to be subsidized by the taxpayer. In fact, college enrollment should be reduced and hundreds of non-selective colleges should be shuttered.
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