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LLM benchmarks are a contentious, if often unserious topic. There are many benchmarks. Some are made by companies that make LLMs. Some are hilariously pie-in-the-sky like AGI ones. But most of them are just a number, and most of us just look for "does number go up?" On top of that, you'll see all over the internet: "I use and it's just as good as ." But you rarely see, in these type of comments,…
I'll never forget my first homelab. It was an Apple Xserve G5 . I had "bought" it from a non-profit organization I was volunteering for. They had decided to re-do their website, and as a 15-16 year old, I helped them make it savvy for the new, younger generation. They had the Xserve in their basement, for who knows how long, never used as they had always wound up outsourcing their web stack. I…
I was in Japan for the 2026 cryoDuck Tokyo Days event. This is a cryo-EM conference with a heavy focus on methods development, facility management, throughput and automation. I will spare the cryo-EM blow-by-blow (more to come on that some other time), but wanted to document some of the special facilities that we visited. Taking off from Bozeman to Seattle. The Bridger mountain range crowns the…
Shot timers are fun little range toys. They clip on your belt. You press the big button, and some random amount of time later, it beeps. Then it starts timing how long from the beep, to the first shot: It's a useful tool for practicing your draw, acquire, aim and fire routine, and exposes a lot of bad habits that rise to the surface when you are under time pressure. Some folks also use them as a…