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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

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

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

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'

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

Helium, it's not just for balloons

A few weeks ago when the war began me and a bunch of friends started to discuss Helium and the need for it in Medical MRI imaging. The Strait of Hormuz was the only pass through for a good bit of it. The friend's dad worked in the

Idle Games Continued: Crusader's Quest

I am still playing a ton of Diablo IV in my free time. We are currently in a shortened season ( only 12 weeks ) and the new season starts in about 3 weeks with the new Expansion and class rework. There will be tons to write about then, however I am

Legends of Dragaea

So a few weeks ago I started running Desktop Heroes on a secondary PC I had (a three-generation-old gaming PC) because I snagged it for a pittance and wanted to see what all the fuss was about with those types of games. I usually don’t get

Shifting Sands and Dev Windows

Over the past couple of months, my development desktop has gradually changed into its new form. This is the interweaving of AI into almost all of my workflows. I have a widescreen main monitor that I do most of my “concentration” work on, positioned in the middle of

Soup of Numbers and Operations

"Humanity needs to wake up, and this essay is an attempt—a possibly futile one, but it’s worth trying—to jolt people awake." "For example, AI models are trained on vast amounts of literature that include many science-fiction stories involving AIs rebelling

The Whale

Great read: What has Docker become? Docker Inc’s journey from containerization pioneer to AI-focused platform has been anything but straightforward. Here’s what their strategic shifts tell us about the company’s search for identity. I remember when Docker hit, almost seemingly overnight over a

Desktop Heroes

I've had Desktop Heroes running on a side monitor for the past week or so. It's a fun little Cookie Clicker–style game that I enjoy watching from time to time. It needs minimal interaction, and you level up characters and progress as you normally

Getting Into Lorcana

We play some type of card game each night at our house, usually during dinner. For Christmas, I was given Unstable Game's Twisted Cryptids which we are really getting into and which I will probably post about soon. However, over the Christmas break, we really wanted to learn

Diablo IV - Season 11 - Dungeon Tier List

I have been playing a lot of Season 11 ( THE NEW PALADINS ARE HERE, THE NEW PALADINS ARE HERE! ) Diablo IV over the last week or so and was looking for a good tier list of all the Nightmare Dungeons for this season since I always seem to be full

Finishing Up Maktala

Loved this little game. A neat cross between a loot shooter and an advancement-path chooser. The premise is that you are trying to clear slimes from a 2D plane in the quickest way possible to advance levels. There are about ten different ways to embellish your stats along the