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J Notes
Notes on technology, design, and life.
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Unshackled From Money, Free to Pursue Our Dreams
Lionel Robbins defined economics in 1932 as "the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses," and this definition remains highly influential today. If you treat scarcity as a permanently binding condition across all important goods, then money and prices appear...
I Don’t Think LLMs Are the Final Architecture of Superintelligence
Modern LLMs are increasingly multimodal, so calling every LLM purely "text-based" is no longer entirely accurate. Images, audio, video, and other inputs can also be represented and...
Running Oversized GGUF Language Models On Low-RAM Hardware Using System Memory Mapping
I briefly covered the idea of running oversized language models on your own hardware in...
Increased Feasability of Local LLM Inference On Consumer Hardware
Local LLM inference on consumer hardware has been in a weird place for a while. You can...
Employers Shouldn't Be Proud Of Overworking Their Employees
There's a difference between critical, high-stakes deadlines for groundbreaking...
