u/bigattichouse

Note: Am not economist. Am barely able to handle my own financial nonsense, just curious. Hope I might get some straightforward answers and links on how to educate myself on the topic.

Thinking about New York's pied-à-terre taxes, it was about "stagnant assets" (homes sitting empty - assets stagnant in the grand scheme of things).

Joe Smoe at the corner store's money comes in and goes out in about a week, nearly 100%.

Franklin P. Moneybags (1% or 0.001%, whatever) is sitting on twelve houses and cars, and whatnot. Assets and incoming just accrue. Some is "invested" to accrue more - but not actually "spent".

What percentage of Moneybag's money is actually "moving"? Is there a term for that? If he has a ton "on paper", that's effectively stagnant for my purposes... So does FPM actually "contribute" to the % of money moving around?

I'm just wondering if the "actually participates in the economy" is inverted as wealth is accumulated.

That is all.

Was thinking about an idea for savory breakfast cereals, and how cereals always lean hard on sugar... the I remembered Cheese Grits. Would be amazing to have cereals that aren't so darn sweet.

Kinda like Kix or something.. round puffs of cheesy/buttery corn grits, and then occasional BBQ puffs in there.

A resilient Community is the real first responder in a disaster. Go, knock on a few doors and see if everyone is ok. Go help if you are able. Ask for help if you need it.

Also, if your food is going to rot... cook it and share with the neighbors.

While I'm there primarily as a vendor, we ran a bunch of games and it was great to sit around a table with a diverse crowd of people I might never normally interact with, solve problems and share joy and stories, etc. A two or four hour window is a nice discrete chunk of time to play a game.

It might be interesting to build a freeform "game system" that's actually about solving real problems at a local level. Interested parties could be "characters" and and different tables could run fictionalized scenarios based on the real problems in the community. Even if the overarching "villain" or thing you're up against might be fictionalized, I think it might give people the opportunity to think about how the problem impacts others.

Imagine a polluted elemental menacing the town - fed by effluent and runoff. The monester is a fictional "monster" that is the result of a LOT of individual actions - or maybe one or two big polluters - but it's "feeding" is the consequences. By building an actual plan, and playing through a fictionalized scenario like a 1950d B-movie, the players could figure out ways to solve the real problem.

A game for solving problems would be VERY situational, but I wonder if a set of "system rules" or some kind of framework and example scenarios might help. And push it past reality to a fantasy versions so it feels like a game.

You're not necessarily solving a problem like an actual working group, but you're trying to SEE the problem and SEE the people it affects, and feel like it's your job to help solve it. This would lead to discussions and friendships across lines that are easy to draw and cause conflict. I think a lot of our problems stem from us not seeing people - we don't feel they are part of our "tribe", and kinda like "NPC"s - not real.

I know the idea is kinda vague.. but it was just a moment that came to me while sitting in a room with a thousand other people who gathered together to play and interact with strangers.

I saw tables with octogenarians, veterans, non-binary teenagers, people of various ethnicities, clearly different religions, various limb differences, all rolling dice and laughing and having fun together as humans. Seeing each other.

Throwing it out there for the group consciousness to mull over.

Link to explanation article(Paywall Removed), github repo here: https://github.com/bigattichouse/llama-optimize

Uses robust design of experiments techniques to provide efficient parameter sweeps. It does take a long time (I ran mine overnight), but it's pretty good at finding settings I hadn't anticipated.

Step 1: Morris Elementary Effects - finds which parameters, for the given model on the host hardware, have independent and interacting effects

Step 2+: Sweep through parameter levels to tune in the values that help the most.

Yes I built this with Fable, based on my robust/morris/taguchi tools.

This question pertains to open source Large Language Models (AI) that can be run on citizen's own local hardware. After seeing some recent posts about the Whitehouse possibly issuing executive orders related to open models, I started wondering if 2A might apply to something "so dangerous" and yet accessible to many.

MODS: if you wanna remove for slop, that's cool - once I have something like a llama.cpp patch I'll repost something people can use. I'll write a full article on my Medium account with how it works. Just got excited and wanted to share.

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Forgive the claude summary, in the readme, but the base works. I'm still working on the hip kernal and having it combine with MTP. I hope to get up near 80 tk/s.

All started because I realized every Q8 (INT8 or F8) calculation was using f32 of compute and only use 1/4th the available numbers... so. for each value loaded we can run 4 operations. Then the idea of speculative decoding which has a smaller model on the side running predictions that a bigger model votes on/vetos - why not just have THE SAME MODEL make those determinations.

KV cache adds a little overhead, but it's tiny. see tables in readme, and some SVGs as well.

Benchmark is my single MI50.

Because we're exploiting the nature of the smaller quants (Q8 or less), this really only works with those.

It's fairly simple, and runs on the commandline. but I've been using it, and I'm happy with it. figured I'd share. It's free, MIT License. enjoy.

Inspired by the Mac app: https://github.com/marekkowalczyk/breathe-cli but I wanted to have different breathing patterns (and the ability to make my own).

I'm not the author, I just thought this web comic was VERY relevant to the solarpunk ideal - building community is important. We need more discussion about Solarpunk infrastructure (harm reduction, distribution, community involvement, equity, justice, etc.), what is UNDER that aesthetic we're drawn to that keeps it running.

It's easy to look at the final product and sigh with contentment without ever describing the journey. It's easy to poo-poo the thousands of steps it takes to get to that final product using the No True Scotsman fallacy (That's not solar punk! That's just flowers in the median!).. but we don't talk about the logistics under the hood enough.

How do those windmills/solar panels/batteries/organic farms/etc get there, what keeps them running, how is it decided who will build and repair them (and safely)?

The boring bits.

They all come from communities and habits. How do we build those communities and habits?

A 1.7B model can actually turn out some code, so I'm running the training for a 9B model, then will re-run HumanEval (a full one this time). I've shown most of my homework in the article, but will be posting to github after I clean things up.

It was inspired by Repeat Yourself's dnhkng.github.io/posts/rys/ neuroanatomy findings... this gave me a start and end point to attach my "reverse LLM" side car model (so it reads from the end, and then injects its output back at the top - in a loop), in this case focusing on syntax - drastically improving a very tiny model.

I'll also go back and run the full HumanEval dataset on both, instead of just the first 20.