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I restarted a 10 year old Xeon 174 times to delete twelve flags and gain four tokens a second
A follow-up to running Gemma 4 on a 2016 Xeon. I took the 25-flag config apart one flag at a time. Twelve of them did nothing here, and the speed I gained came from fixing two flags I kept, not from the pile I deleted.
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A 10 year old Xeon is all you need
Or running Gemma 4 on a 2016 Xeon with no GPU, 25 flags, 128 GB of DDR3, and a 25B-parameter MoE.
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Quantizing Gemma 4's MTP drafters
Lab notes on getting Gemma 4's MTP drafters converted, quantized, and paired with a verifier.
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Open weights are not open source
On the gap between published model weights and a working local deployment.
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Another NixOS Election Cycle
A cure to resume driven governance?