Two independent technologies are gaining attention on r/LocalLLaMA this week. One is a new method of speculative decoding called "JetSpec"—which performs parallel tree drafting while maintaining ...

A ball-balancing robot developed by Andrea Favero using mirror reflection. RPi4B + 3x RP2040-Zero + TMC2209 + PiCamera V3 Wide, fully open source. Andrea Favero is a self-taught maker in his 50s. Born ...

It was about understanding distributed computing. For my Goodreads sentiment analysis capstone project at Baruch, I was stuck with a massive 10M+ review dataset that took 2 full days to process on a ...

Distributed tracing is useful when the execution path of a request is no longer obvious from one service boundary. In a monolith, a stack trace and structured logs usually give enough context. In a ...