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pfheatwole··on Gemma 4 QAT models: Optimizing compression for mobile and laptop efficiency
Models:

- Safetensors: https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-qat-q4_0-un...

- GGUF: https://huggingface.co/unsloth/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-GGUF/tree/...

Note the README in the Unsloth list of files: llama.cpp is working on a PR to support the gemma4 drafters: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/23398. Also note the PR submitter didn't experience much speedup with 26B (seems typical that MoE models don't generally benefit from MTP).

pfheatwole··on Bicyclists Deserve the Right to Free Movement
Speaking specifically to riding in the center of a lane: if there's not a bike lane or wide shoulder then it's not entitlement, it's a safety issue.

If a cyclist hugs the edge of the road then drivers frequently squeeze between the cyclist and oncoming traffic. If the cyclist stays in the middle of the lane then drivers recognize they need to wait for a clear passing opportunity.

pfheatwole··on Sim Wong Hoo has died
I will remember Creative as the company that issued repeated lawsuits against Aureal Semiconductor (losing repeatedly), then bought their assets when Aureal was forced to declare bankruptcy due to legal fees.
pfheatwole··on Hush, a modern shell scripting language
Yes, and it lives on in a variety of minimalist environments under active development, such as:

* U-boot: https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/blob/master/common/cli_hush...

* Busybox: https://github.com/brgl/busybox/blob/master/shell/hush.c

* Barebox: https://github.com/barebox/barebox/blob/master/common/hush.c

pfheatwole··on Data-Oriented Programming in Python
I'm not sure if Numba is in the spirit of your question, but it does make it easy to write ufuncs without explicitly dropping into C.

https://numba.pydata.org/numba-doc/latest/user/vectorize.htm...