You had me at horded.

You. Had. Me. At. Horded.

Do we dare ask why you need 48TB to store media, or do we slowly back out of the room, avoiding eye contact?

It warms the cockles of my heart that I renamed my self hosted LLM’s deep thinking mode to Mentats. For shits and giggles, I made it append every “deep thinking” conclusion it makes with [ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN!].

It’s the simple things, really.

I like to secretly imagine it stands for SIG SAUER. Bang = process ded

Lots to try here

https://www.reddit.com/r/lowendgaming/comments/1p431ec/winners_of_the_best_freeware_and_retail_fall_2025/

NPUs yes, TPUs no (or not yet). Rumour has it that Hailo is meant to be releasing a plug in NPU “soon” that accelerates LLM.

I’m still sanguine that 1.58 BITNET models take off. Those could plausibly run at good clip on existing CPUs, no GPU needed.

Super basic medium article for those not in know

https://medium.com/@kondwani0099/reimagining-ai-efficiency-a-practical-guide-to-using-bitnets-1-bit-llm-on-cpus-without-ef804d3fb875

Necessity spite is usually a good driver…though given BITNET is Microsoft IP…ehh…I won’t hold my breath for too long. Still waiting for their 70B model to drop… maybe this year…