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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Provided they can get hold of some reasonably big tin... They can host some pretty powerful stuff now locally, and even fine tune it to your needs. I guess it depends on the use case.

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

You can configure local LLMs and tools such as Cursor to use those local models for inference. Using AI tools doesn't need to be a "I'm terrified of a data breach" conversation provided you build the right infra. 👍

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Appoint someone to operate in your stead with the same aplomb that you have over the years... "The Guru is dead... Long live The Guru!"

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

It's dependent on the mission-criticality of the result. You'd not want an "ish" answer for nuclear reactor safety, or spacecraft re-entry for example.

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

www.linkedin.com/posts/chris-... A few morning thoughts...: - The problem with TV streaming services? Overwhelming choice. - A DJ mode for @netflix.com would be an excellent addition to make TV more interactive, and less overwhelming. What do you think? #streaming #Netflix #AI

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I had a "moment" this morning, whilst drinking my coffee. It was a realisation of one of the issues with streaming platforms. There's just... Too much choice.…

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I get that. But you'd be surprised at how many people want to see the end-product... First. The way we consume information has changed; Example being short-form media, but it applies to everything.

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Show someone being able to achieve their end-goal quickly - Go through the detail later if they're still interested. We've become an instant-gratification society, that wants the short-form answer first. So give people what they want early, and then let them stay for the detail later.

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Matt Schramm Ph.D @mattschramm.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I have some good news and some bad news for my #HPC friends. Ansys 2025 R1 is now available.... Bad news is that it is now twice the size of 2024 R2 (looking at the number of DVD ISOs compared to last release). Best of luck to everyone...

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Better still... ...It's good as a potential hire to check the companys GitHub repos to see: - Commits made in the last 6 months - How many were made by the interviewers This put me off joining a company who offered when I realised they'd not done _anything_ since getting VC money for 6 months...

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

... And if you don't believe this and you think "i'm not using #AI" - Just remember every time you use a captcha that is "identify the traffic light/bicycle/motorcycle" - You're providing training data to train driverless cars on image recognition by labelling it for them.

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

We are in the "training/correcting" phase of #AI adaptation right now. For those of you using AI tools, you know this to be true; If something is free, you are the product. Your prompts will be being used to train models. 1/2

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Autonomous agents. You don't need a 14-day-week if you've got an agent alongside you, doubling your throughput/quality. That's the theory. Remove onerous work, to amplify existing workflows. In practice, it'll be a LOT of correction/training initially which will regress throughput/quality.

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Welcome! If you're not already on, get yourselves onto @walkingrandomly.bsky.social's HPC Starter pack :)

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Point 22 flies directly in the face of the Turing Institute in discussions around redundancies.

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Already mentioned it - One of the biggest risks when it comes to AI is the risk of it creating a two-tier environment. In the #HPC / #AI arms race... Who loses? It's the businesses who can't afford to generate business benefit from it because they're not large enough to. Think #SMEs.

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

So... It's an action plan that says "Let's build infrastructure capacity to make ourselves attractive to tech companies" "Let's do a renewal initiative to re-industrialise de-industrialised areas, just re-zoning them for a different industry." It's a path-of-least-resistance approach.

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Thanks, I was trying to ascertain some of the more weird and wonderfuls, things like the multitude of ARM CPUs out there but I think i've got it now and I can strip it out of /sys :)

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Damn, that's a big performance regression.

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

If you want to connect with plenty of people, getting onto @walkingrandomly.bsky.social's HPC Starter Pack would be a good shout

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Who would have thought that in todays age, I would have to create a secret, base64-encoded to store a simple one-line JSON string to do a github action... Because... I already use secrets so it _must_ be a risk i'm leaking a secret? What cold hell is this? @github.com please sort this out.

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

An #AI product idea: A search-engine that can filter out all #AI-generated content, and fact-check all items prior to displaying search results. Some people just want the real. The facts. Not opinion, not generated content. The cold, hard, original content so they can make up their own minds.

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Hey, the thing is - That second circle on the right? That will become increasingly bigger because the number of good reference images that _aren't_ AI-generated will be dwarfed by the volume of images that are.

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

That's generally what happens when you have a platform where if you don't like something you just don't see it. It's refreshing.

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I might be able to shout that... I'll have to enquire about a pass to come out to play.

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

That feels like twisting the instruction set to match the use-case - Almost videogame console-like...

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Stardew Valley and Cyberpunk 2077 - Oh god.

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

As an aside... There must be a better way to do #self-healing tasks like this inside #K8s - am I missing something? Happy to be enlightened!

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Today I was annoyed. #cert-manager didn't renew its own #letsencrypt certs... ...So here's a quick-and-dirty cronjob to do it in #K8s. The cert-manager-sa ServiceAccount needs ClusterRole and ClusterRoleBinding to manage certs, and kubeconfig stored as a secret. gist.github.com/CJCShadowsan...

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

The dGPU situation is a conundrum. They're clearly doing some great work, but the supply problems are killing them at a time when they should have been flooding the market and taking market share from NVIDIA and AMD. It's almost as if they were paranoid Battlemage wasn't going to be a success...

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

It does, yes 🙂 At the same time, I wanted to sanity check something i've seen on an AMD document and an NVIDIA document to effectively reverse-engineer a couple of things to make sure the assumptions i'm making in code aren't wrong 👍 The #HPL dat generator is getting a major upgrade you see 😉

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Random request - can someone on a Grace Hopper and/or a Grace Grace system run: getconf LEVEL1_DCACHE_LINESIZE for me please. For that matter, anyone on any latest CPUs too, please. It'd be very helpful 👍 #HPC

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

This is why sports in general are becoming more popular with shorter-forms of the same game. The way we consume information has changed, we're very much an instant gratification society now, so shorter-form content (including sports) are inevitably more popular. It's why highlights are popular.

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

I'll take a look... Easy enough to do. It'll be tomorrow 👍

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Here's one... Is Colossus being used for grok? Because I can assure you... It's working... Poorly. Multiple dropped requests, major delays in response... It's pretty poor.

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

One of the problems with all tech advances is the "human element" - the delta between the tech advance and the effective safe use of the tech. Normally exploited by someone at some point as an early adopter. #HPC and #AI are no exception.

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

This was a regular thing during COVID in the UK, that then became a trend in general and people still do it clearly.

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Chris Coates @cjcshadowsan.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Can't you be both an HPC person, and a (hpc) PERSON? 😉 Platforms like this are about community. If all we talk about is one or two topics... The well is gonna run dry 🤣

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