For those that aren't as keen with some of the nuances of what is going on here, Kylan Scanlon made a really handy short explaining it here: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6gA0OROwlgk

Pretty amazing for being trained from scratch, to have ~Qwen 3.8 27b quality with such an increase in tok/s performance. Excited to try it out and see how snappy it is.

SPOILER!!

The general twist is that she doesn’t really come off as the villain of this film (though she certainly does not come off in a flattering light) - her current husband it turns out is actually a pretty terrifying sociopath who seems to possibly have a bit of a cocaine habit (inferred from the excessive sniffles and insane demeanor) - and he really becomes sort of the films main antagonist.

All of this is completely subjective so someone else could come away with a different take, but if there was a twist (which I would not say this is a film with an overt twist) - it would be this.

For me it was a window into insane wealth and privilege and the types of lives these people lead and the engines that power their sense of self importance and delusions. I do think it was a phenomenal documentary.

SPOILERs kinda: Notably, it's all in the presentation and form of everything that went on. There were about ten different moments in the packed theater where something was said or happened where the entire audience was... silent. tense. I've never felt that sort of palpable and shared tension anywhere in my life like that.

Try the Qwen 3.8 flash next model on DwarfStar - you will be very surprised. I’ve been using the 4 bit quant almost exclusively after having DS v4 flash be my daily driver. Qwen is faster and seems to be much better at coding tasks.

There’s a popular hologram by Walter Spierings that I think highlights what makes holograms unique: https://youtu.be/K-ahG_Q2xRc

It’s a microscope, that in the correct angle allows you to actually look down the viewfinder and see what the microscope was displaying.

This works because the hologram is recording the interference pattern of the photons that existed in the actual scene.

I’m really fascinated by these types of holograms and think they hold quite a bit of artistic potential.

Microscope blew my mind

Sooo I haven't really been super impressed with the needle models before, but this is very impressive. It transcribed multiple sentences I gave it with complex timing and words and in such a small footprint, I'm super impressed. Excited to see what types of things can be built with something like this, the performance seems very good.

Dwarfstar already supports this, curious how it compares, but I use the q4 quant daily and it works really well.

https://github.com/antirez/ds4/blob/main/docs/MODELS.md#qwen...

llama.cpp sycl and vllm xmx work is pretty incredible right now - you just gotta build it with some extra flags

Llama would be nice for the ggufs. Any specific flags or tutorials I should look at?

The docs are a great start.

https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/blob/master/docs/backe...

This account was created only a couple weeks ago and seems to be spamming this closed model, seems it might be a bot?

Actually it was created around 12 years ago. We just launched the model around 3 days ago.

Apologies if it is too much of a bother.

Cause it's not open?

Good point.

To counter, most of the AI is not open. So is none of Microsoft Products. As long as they work, we keep using them.

counter point, I've stopped using all closed models and harnesses as a life choice

Ai is too important and transformational to let Big Ai dominate in a closed ecosystem, thankfully the Chinese have a different mindset and approach

That's an absolutely fair way. More power to you !