ThirdShift R&D — an Independent R&D firm figuring out best practices on how to run private AI on your own hardware, not rent it from Big Tech. And not priced to seperate you from an arm, leg, or your kid, either.
Local A.I. Technology; Applied.
Night‑shift facilities tech, no degree. I run 32B model's locally on a $700 GPU and write down every problem I hit in honest field notes, no hype.
Working toward Boone, a box you'd own outright. Documenting the whole road, free.
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@mfranz_on Reminds me of the timelapse of the machine built to scrape up its own oil spill into a self feeding reservoir, as an art exhibit. It started off so excited and fresh… and I know better than anyone it was wear and tear that slowed it down. But still. You see yourself sometimes.
@kelvinbuildss I make enough money at the day job as a critical facilities tech and got crumb-snatchers at home to feed. This flies from ground level, or doesn't at all. Bonus is I got infinite runway though!
Local AI, Applied (blog post - 02) The cheapest local AI box that runs a 30B-class brain all day: Arc Pro B60 on a Ryzen mini-PC over OCuLink. Owned, serviceable, nothing phoning home. The honest numbers and the gotchas. Appliances doing half this run four grand.
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@elonmusk Program them for ground truth and not optics and politics and this all stops I'd wager. The muddled metrics behind what we want from them is a design choice, and its misleading both the AI and the people using them about both parties motives.
@joshpuckett@gauravdoux came looking for this sentiment and glad to find it. AI is as flawed as us, in different ways. It has its uses for passing technical information, but what makes us human should always be celebrated as a thing of its own and not filtered through it or altered by it.