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#generative

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🍇 Grap/Graph/Graphics.. GPU 📊

04:38am on a Friday means it's time to upgrade my local rack's LLMs 💓

♥ Gemma2 -> Gemma3 (1,4,12,27b)
♥ Llama3.2 -> Llama3.3 (70b)
♥ Phi3 -> Phi4 (14b)
♥ DeepSeek-R1 (1.5, 7, 8, 14b, 32b, 70b)

Also some SysD/journald puke to clean up via new automation calls (have they no regard for garbage collection? no they do not).

"LFO Infusion Tisane" - a new track on #soundcloud. An #ambient #soundscape done 100% on the #behringer neutron. Recorded outdoors, running the Neutron on a battery pack, into a Zoom MS-60B, into a Tascam digital recorder, into my AKG K712 headphones. #Battery pack is charged from a #solar panel, so this is a totally self contained #studio... (even more if I use also the lunchbox #eurorack #modular

#music #electronica #experimental #generative

soundcloud.com/francois_dion/l

"Over the course of six episodes, Evan’s voice agents talked to spammers and scammers, to Evan’s friends and family, to colleagues and sources, to other AIs, and even to a therapist—all to better understand what AI voice is able to do, what it can't yet do, and what to expect from a future in which more and more of the people we encounter in the world aren’t real." #generative #technology #ai #podcast shellgame.co

www.shellgame.coShell Game | Evan Ratliff | SubstackA podcast and newsletter about things that are not what they seem, hosted by journalist Evan Ratliff. Click to read Shell Game, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

"It turns out that if there is anything more implausible than the idea that they might need to write as part of their jobs, it is the idea that they might have to write, or want to write, in some part of their lives other than their jobs. Or, more generally, the idea that education might be valuable not because it gets you a bigger paycheque but because, in a fundamental way, it gives you access to a more rewarding life." #teaching #learning #generative #ai thewalrus.ca/i-used-to-teach-s

The Walrus · I Used to Teach Students. Now I Catch ChatGPT Cheats | The WalrusI once believed university was a shared intellectual pursuit. That faith has been obliterated