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I sent Claude Opus 5 "- - -" and it wrote me 5k tokens about a cartographer
Welcome to Austin's Nerdy Things, where we send punctuation to a frontier AI model 649 times and take notes on what crawls out. The night of July 27th, a weird Claude behavior was making the rounds on X. A thread from @merlindru (187K views) flagged a str
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Building DIMMsum: a price tracker for used server RAM on eBay
This project exists because I bought 30 sticks of 16GB DDR4-3200 RDIMM for an EPYC build in early April: an r/homelabsales find at $80 a stick, which was a fair price that day. The problem is that "that day" turned out to be the exact top of the market. B
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From Milliseconds to 26 Nanoseconds: How a $20 eBay SFP Module Beat My Entire NTP Setup
Welcome to Austin's Nerdy Things, where we spend years chasing nanoseconds that nobody asked us to chase. Five years ago, I started this blog by building a microsecond-accurate NTP server with a Raspberry Pi and PPS GPS. Then I went simpler - a $12 USB GP
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One Layer, +12%: What 667 Configs Reveal About Small LLM Anatomy
I've been messing around with local LLMs on my 3090 for a while now - I have a growing collection of Qwen models on D:LLM that I probably should be embarrassed about. A few weeks ago I stumbled across David Noel Ng's LLM Neuroanatomy blog posts, where he
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Ditching Ultralytics: Training YOLOX for Aircraft Detection
I've been building SkySpottr, an AR app overlaying aircraft information on your phone's screen, using your device's location, orientation, and incoming aircraft data (ADS-B) to predict where planes should appear on screen, then uses a YOLO model to lock o
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