# assume (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 6 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover assume. Page: Feed: --- ## [50](https://showgirls.bearblog.dev/0050/) _2026-08-20 · showgirls · Showgirls: A Shot per Day_ Lost among the colours of advertisements, none offering what she needs, even if she had the money to buy it. Jeff, you thieving bastard! Hope everyone is still emotionally invested in the slowly unravelling plot. The stakes are high. ## [49](https://showgirls.bearblog.dev/0049/) _2026-08-19 · showgirls · Showgirls: A Shot per Day_ Same setup as the first crane shot, but Jeff’s car is gone. So is her suitcase, which I assume is later found in a Tarantino film. Her careless crossing of the road, emerging unharmed and unaware, is what really matters to us. ## [48](https://showgirls.bearblog.dev/0048/) _2026-08-18 · showgirls · Showgirls: A Shot per Day_ Hitting marks, camera moves, pause, not looking away from the inevitable crash. You see why her performance has a reputation for camp. Adore how she puts her jacket on to return to her previous self. Not snakeskin, but a symbol of individuality. ## [47](https://showgirls.bearblog.dev/0047/) _2026-08-17 · showgirls · Showgirls: A Shot per Day_ A jarring cut as if we are already in a dream. The camera moves, the light hits her eyes just right, and the exaggerated win gives the performance something to sink its teeth into. No win goes unnoticed; all gifts shall be exploited. ## [46](https://showgirls.bearblog.dev/0046/) _2026-08-16 · showgirls · Showgirls: A Shot per Day_ We are on the move, crossing space of vibrant lights. I so prefer this type of storytelling to the stasis of the car, actions as interactions. These eternal lines have been used by all parents in a children's funfair. But we are adults here. ## [45](https://showgirls.bearblog.dev/0045/) _2026-08-15 · showgirls · Showgirls: A Shot per Day_ This is really well staged by Lord Verhoeven. He does that in his sleep. The luggage never leaves the space of safety, but she bravely steps out. She still has her knife, I guess, and her striking eye makeup. That should be enough. ## [44](https://showgirls.bearblog.dev/0044/) _2026-08-14 · showgirls · Showgirls: A Shot per Day_ He re-enters the established safe space of the car to deliver his line, luring Nomi outside. Films have always depended on the kindness of strangers. Dreams depend more on recognition than trust. ## [43](https://showgirls.bearblog.dev/0043/) _2026-08-13 · showgirls · Showgirls: A Shot per Day_ Every family conversation I ever had is trapped in this loop. They want to help, but their suggestions... my reaction has been Nomi since I was fifteen. Though physically out of the car, the conversation is still in it. We are ready to move on. ## [42](https://showgirls.bearblog.dev/0042/) _2026-08-12 · showgirls · Showgirls: A Shot per Day_ Nearly out of the truck. Descending from the previous shot, the camera lowers to below eye level. The billboard offering sausage and hash browns grounds her introduction to the real Vegas. It has been 42 days. Text STOP for this madness to end. ## [41](https://showgirls.bearblog.dev/0041/) _2026-08-11 · showgirls · Showgirls: A Shot per Day_ The crane shot, evocative of Touch of Evil, is an oasis after the intercutting. Alas, it is only the truck parking. Who parks with such confidence there will be a spot? They did it once slowly, then had to repeat it at double speed. He knows. ## [Your 24/7 AI Media Buyer (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/7SHQIfu2lkyv) _2026-08-11 · **Sponsored**_ Finds placement, geo, and funnel leaks and proposes fixes you approve ## [40](https://showgirls.bearblog.dev/0040/) _2026-08-10 · showgirls · Showgirls: A Shot per Day_ Finally, we land on the two-shot to conclude (I assume) the scene in the traditional way. The driver, the wanderer and us, passengers in this dream entrance. I bet they chose this part of the shot for the Vegas lights coming closer and closer. ## [39](https://showgirls.bearblog.dev/0039/) _2026-08-09 · showgirls · Showgirls: A Shot per Day_ Rewarding to find a pause where we expect a response. After the editor has repeated shots to match dialogue, her silence breaks the pattern. The loop validates it further, as she eternally chooses not to respond, leading towards closure. ## [38](https://showgirls.bearblog.dev/0038/) _2026-08-08 · showgirls · Showgirls: A Shot per Day_ I can only assume the dialogue was longer, or needed trimming for performance, to justify the form of this scene. The same two shots, repeated. I do appreciate Vegas outside the windows, but for God’s sake, please glance at the road. ## [37](https://showgirls.bearblog.dev/0037/) _2026-08-07 · showgirls · Showgirls: A Shot per Day_ We have settled into the back seat through the repetition of shots, like children caught between arguing parents, following a back-and-forth we only half understand. Although I’m not sure what that might say about my family. ## [36](https://showgirls.bearblog.dev/0036/) _2026-08-06 · showgirls · Showgirls: A Shot per Day_ Passing on the ways of the land with an instant meme. The old wise men once said that in Vegas you have to gamble. Will she play by the rules? Delivered with a glow of red light on his face, we are going deeper into the night. ## [Question of the week: Grade the trade deadline](https://twinsdaily.com/forums/topic/75060-question-of-the-week-grade-the-trade-deadline/?do=findComment&comment=1677040) _2026-08-05 · Twins Daily Promote Thread_ Now that the dust has settled, what grade do you give? ## [Join us Monday afternoon for our trade deadline livestream!](https://twinsdaily.com/forums/topic/75014-join-us-monday-afternoon-for-our-trade-deadline-livestream/?do=findComment&comment=1673898) _2026-08-02 · Twins Daily Promote Thread_ We're doin' a new thing. This year, DiamondCentric's YouTube channel is going to host a 3-ish hour livestream over the deadline from 4pm Eastern to 6:30pm Eastern, give or take half an hour. Join us! If you have questions ahead of time, ask them here. Given how this livestream will cover almost... ## [Assume the Twins are buyers: who are your three trade targets?](https://twinsdaily.com/forums/topic/74879-assume-the-twins-are-buyers-who-are-your-three-trade-targets/?do=findComment&comment=1666771) _2026-07-24 · Twins Daily Promote Thread_ Assume the Twins are in a position to buy a week from now. Who are the three targets you want to see on the Twins come August 4th? This can be however you want to view the trade deadline: modest pick-ups, a reasonable push, an unreasonable emptying of the farm - however YOU view the deadline. ## [Question of the week: Should the Twins buy or sell?](https://twinsdaily.com/forums/topic/74878-question-of-the-week-should-the-twins-buy-or-sell/?do=findComment&comment=1666754) _2026-07-24 · Twins Daily Promote Thread_ Assume you have both a valid offer for a player to help your team and an offer to trade a key piece like Jeffers. Which direction do you move right this moment? ## [Vote For Your Top Twins Prospects!](https://twinsdaily.com/forums/topic/74456-vote-for-your-top-twins-prospects/?do=findComment&comment=1647369) _2026-06-15 · Twins Daily Promote Thread_ Unlike other publications, Twins Daily enables all users to contribute to our top prospect rankings. Anyone with a Twins Daily account can participate and give their input on who they think should be in the Twins' top prospects list. Before you vote, you can hit our top prospects page for the latest... ## [Stop CI/CD & Supply-Chain Attacks (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/2XZ7qKFkV8q2) _2026-06-15 · **Sponsored**_ Per-PR: 17 CI/CD checks and package malware scans with inline Check Run findings. ## [Question of the week: Trade Buxton at the deadline?](https://twinsdaily.com/forums/topic/74425-question-of-the-week-trade-buxton-at-the-deadline/?do=findComment&comment=1645882) _2026-06-12 · Twins Daily Promote Thread_ This is a hard one. Buxton's value continues to be high, and there's less reason to think this team will be good soon. So, do you try to move him at this year's deadline? ## [Question of the week: do you care more about a floor or a cap?](https://twinsdaily.com/forums/topic/74257-question-of-the-week-do-you-care-more-about-a-floor-or-a-cap/?do=findComment&comment=1638646) _2026-05-28 · Twins Daily Promote Thread_ This is the first DiamondCentric-wide poll, click into the link to vote. Do you care more about the next CBA having a salary cap or a salary floor? I know many of you want to hammer "both!", but ya gotta choose one. Do you care more about MLB mandating a salary floor or a salar... ## [Ask Us Anything: Twins Minor League System](https://twinsdaily.com/forums/topic/74250-ask-us-anything-twins-minor-league-system/?do=findComment&comment=1638296) _2026-05-27 · Twins Daily Promote Thread_ We're going to try something new! We want to start creating more channels for our audience to get involved and ask questions. So the plan is to open this thread, allow all of you to ask questions, and then in a day or two, one of our minor-league writers will respond with answers to some/all of the... ## [Question of the week: should the Twins call up Kaelen?](https://twinsdaily.com/forums/topic/74164-question-of-the-week-should-the-twins-call-up-kaelen/?do=findComment&comment=1634411) _2026-05-19 · Twins Daily Promote Thread_ What do you think? Yes or no, and where should he play if yes? ## [Question of the week: will the Twins get back to .500 this season?](https://twinsdaily.com/forums/topic/74124-question-of-the-week-will-the-twins-get-back-to-500-this-season/?do=findComment&comment=1632537) _2026-05-14 · Twins Daily Promote Thread_ I was just thinking about this. At 20-24, this is closer to .500 than I expected given their play over the past month. Do you think they'll get to .500 at any point? ## [Assume nobody is listening](https://katya.bearblog.dev/assume-nobody-is-listening/) _2026-04-23 · katya · Katya's Blog_ If the person you’re talking to misunderstands or zones out while you're talking, there’s an 80% chance they won’t let you know. You might notice if they respond nonsensically. "How’s it going?" "Not much." But most of the time, they nod, smile and change the topic, or ask for clarification and if they still don’t get it... nod, smile and change the topic. We all assume. Good assumptions make life… ## [Pihole and IPv6](https://unorde.red/pihole/) _2026-04-03 · unorde.red on unordered_ I recently bought a cheap server to run at home, and set up pihole . I set up some local records, so my server is available via DNS locally. I also enabled DHCP, so I could give all of my devices fancy and organized local IP addresses. Unfortunately my ISP, which is part of the Big Telecom oligopoly in Canada, gave me a very locked down router. Inexplicably this router allows you to configure v4… ## [Vectorizing Loops with Control-Flow using the Vector API](https://eme64.github.io/blog/2026/03/23/VectorAPI-control-flow.html) _2026-03-23 · Emanuel Peter · Emanuel’s Blog_ Many algorithms require control-flow. As of JDK26, the HotSpot JVM does not auto vectorize loops with control-flow (other than the loop exit check). That will hopefully change in the future, but auto vectorization will always be limited. It is a pattern matching engine and can never cover all cases. That’s where the Vector API (JEP) comes to the rescue: it allows us to express vectorized… ## [Vectorizing Simple Algorithms with Auto Vectorization, Vectorized Intrinsics and the Vector API](https://eme64.github.io/blog/2026/03/20/Simple-Vectorized-Algorithms.html) _2026-03-20 · Emanuel Peter · Emanuel’s Blog_ In this blog post, we will look at some very simple algorithms like fill, copy, map and iota, and see how we can vectorize them to get speedups. I will assume that you already have some basic understanding of automatic vectorization, vectorized intrinsics and the Vector API, otherwise please read this blog post first. ## [How the HotSpot JVM speeds up computation with SIMD Vectorization](https://eme64.github.io/blog/2026/03/19/Hotspot-JVM-Vectorization.html) _2026-03-19 · Emanuel Peter · Emanuel’s Blog_ Parallel processing is used in many places to speed up computation. ## [Earn crypto for idle GPUs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/min7QpLBgEgj) _2026-03-18 · **Sponsored**_ Run one CLI, host Qwen/Llama/Mistral, and earn BTC, ETH, SOL, or USDC ## [Implementing a Fast Dot-Product using the Java Vector API](https://eme64.github.io/blog/2026/03/19/VectorAPI-dot-product.html) _2026-03-19 · Emanuel Peter · Emanuel’s Blog_ The dot-product is one of the most fundamental Linear Algebra operations, and it has many applications. ## [JDK26: Auto Vectorization and Aliasing](https://eme64.github.io/blog/2026/01/14/Aliasing.html) _2026-01-14 · Emanuel Peter · Emanuel’s Blog_ Aliasing is one of the biggest obstacles to vectorization and auto vectorization in particular. As we will see further below, it is also relevant for uses of the Vector API. ## [Vectorizing Reductions: from JDK9 to JDK26 and beyond](https://eme64.github.io/blog/2026/01/13/Reductions.html) _2026-01-13 · Emanuel Peter · Emanuel’s Blog_ There are a lot of examples for reductions: computing the sum, product or min over some list of numbers, the dot product (sum of element-wise products), or even the polynomial hash over a string. ## [Performance impact of Alignment](https://eme64.github.io/blog/2026/01/12/Alignment-Performance.html) _2026-01-12 · Emanuel Peter · Emanuel’s Blog_ An important topic in SIMD vectorization is alignment of memory accesses, i.e. loads and stores. There is an impact on any form of vectorization, including auto-vectorization and explicit vectorization (e.g. with the Vector API). ## [Fine Tuning Llama 3.2B with Unsloth](https://davidan.dev/posts/ftsql/) _2026-01-12 · David An_ In this article, we will be fine tuning the Llama 3.2B model with Unsloth on the Spider 1.0 SQL dataset. The goal of the article is to improve the SQL capabilities of a general Llama 3.2B model. Prerequisites Before we get started, we assume that the reader has access to a GPU which they are able to use for training. Additionally, we assume that the reader has a Python setup. ## [We Are Living in a Giant Casino](https://davidan.dev/posts/lottery/) _2026-01-05 · David An_ Short-term gratification has taken over the world. We as a society, now expect everything to be instantaneous or near-instantaneous and this attitude has made its way to nearly every corner of our lives. Here is a short but definitely not exhaustive list of such examples: ## [Local-first GPU Cluster with nvkind and Time Splitting](https://davidan.dev/posts/nvkind/) _2025-12-14 · David An_ You have a brand new shiny GPU and want to start experimenting with it by running some sample experiments in Kubernetes, but how would you start that. In this short tutorial, we go over how to use nvkind, the gpu-operator to start running some basic experiemtns using your new GPU. We assume that the reader already has things such as Docker, golang, and relevant drivers/systems (nvidia-ctk,… ## [AI's Second Act: Predictions for the Future of AI](https://davidan.dev/posts/secondact/) _2025-11-23 · David An_ I want to preface that any opinions expressed here are of my own and not representative of any organization or my employers. In 2023, ChatGPT was released to the world, fundamentally changing how technology is created and how we think about businesses. What once took weeks to build now takes hours to minutes with a simple prompt and a few clicks. Tools like Cursor and Codex brought AI to our… ## [Distributed Inference for Fun and Profit](https://davidan.dev/posts/dif/) _2025-11-01 · David An_ You ever just wonder how large models serve at scale? Or how to actually go from query to answer? Over the course of this article, we will take a look at approaches to inference and explore the tradeoffs of various approaches from a technical perspective. We assume that the reader has basic knowledge of ML concepts and how Transformers work. Additionally, all of the work here is done on a single… ## [A Dive into GPU Math](https://davidan.dev/posts/gpumath/) _2025-10-15 · David An_ You ever wonder what goes on when you ask ChatGPT a question and how that is served? Or what people mean when by using a A100 to train a model and the time it takes? Or even considering the levels of abstraction between the model and the hardware? This article will aim to bring light to many of the concepts related to GPUs and the math behind them. We assume that the reader has a basic… ## [Tokenization and Embeddings: A Primer](https://davidan.dev/posts/tokenization/) _2025-10-01 · David An_ Lately, all we have heard about is tokenization and embeddings and the role they play in the greater LLM and AI ecosystem. These two concepts are one of the most fundamental concepts in language modeling and remain the foundation of the technology we interact with on a daily basis. In this article, we will cover some of the basics around tokenizing and embedding sequences of texts and the nuances… ## [Implementing Kubernetes Security: A Hands-On Approach](https://davidan.dev/posts/k8s-2/) _2025-06-01 · David An_ In a continuation of the previous article, we explore the implementation of these different examples. Specifically, we will be covering workload separation, authentication, and other hardedning techniques. This article will have an example followed by a short explanation of what and why we should do that. We assume that the reader has a basic understanding of Kubernetes topics such as pods,… ## [Introduction to HotSpot JVM C2 JIT Compiler, Part 3](https://eme64.github.io/blog/2025/01/23/Intro-to-C2-Part03.html) _2025-01-23 · Emanuel Peter · Emanuel’s Blog_ I assume that you have already looked at Part 0, Part 1, and Part 2. ## [Introduction to HotSpot JVM C2 JIT Compiler, Part 4](https://eme64.github.io/blog/2025/01/23/Intro-to-C2-Part04.html) _2025-01-23 · Emanuel Peter · Emanuel’s Blog_ I assume that you have already looked at Part 0, Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. ## [AutoVectorization (SuperWord) Status](https://eme64.github.io/blog/2025/01/01/AutoVectorization-Status.html) _2025-01-01 · Emanuel Peter · Emanuel’s Blog_ I present this graphical overview of the C2 AutoVectorizer (SuperWord). The goal is to help myself and others understand the different improvements and their dependencies.