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AI x Nonprofits • 21 years as Executive Director of a Bay Area nonprofit. • Empowering nonprofits with AI tools that feel like superpowers to save time, stretch budgets, amplify impact. • Let's connect!

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There you are!

14.10.2025 19:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Reading Bee Speaker now. Irae may be a predecessor of Worsel...

14.10.2025 19:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Now we need the librarian.

11.10.2025 15:50 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Very nice! And the MLX community has released a version that will run on your 64 gig Mac.

17.09.2025 05:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Simon, iirc you have a 64 gb Mac. As you may know it's possible to run OSS 120-b on that, using the Unsloth q2 model. Thanks for your wonderful posts!

07.08.2025 04:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ethan, I appreciate your posts enough that I will rejoin LinkedIn to continue seeing them regularly. And of course I read and enjoy your newsletter.

26.05.2025 19:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Peter Kenny narrating Iain M. Banks’ writing is luscious, and not to be missed.

17.05.2025 17:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

please keep posting here.

26.04.2025 21:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What a cool idea! I'm trying this idea with a Project Gutenberg book and have asked for a text-based adventure.

11.04.2025 19:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks for Moonbound!

31.03.2025 04:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

No, haven't tried that.

10.03.2025 00:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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lmstudio-community/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-1M-GGUF · Hugging Face We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

Or huggingface.co/lmstudio-com...

10.03.2025 00:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Maybe a smaller model with large context window (haven't tried this myself). One example: Llama 3.1 8b has 128K context window.

09.03.2025 23:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Similar experience, gave up on it.

03.03.2025 22:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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ChatGPT - Mark Cuban Hunger Solutions Shared via ChatGPT

I deeply appreciate your contributions to a better life and better health for many people. Regarding world hunger, ChatGPT has some advice for you. chatgpt.com/share/67b9e9...

22.02.2025 15:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks for the nudge on MLX models, Simon. They seem to be more memory efficient on Macs than GGUF versions.

15.02.2025 22:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I like how one can tick a box in LM Studio search and find only MLX models. I haven't tried the option Simon mentions.

15.02.2025 20:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

a chain of thought model it seems from the name.

12.02.2025 01:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Screening performance and characteristics of breast cancer detected in the Mammography Screening with Artificial Intelligence trial (MASAI): a randomised, controlled, parallel-group, non-inferiority, ... The findings suggest that AI contributes to the early detection of clinically relevant breast cancer and reduces screen-reading workload without increasing false positives.

New: The largest medical A.I. randomized controlled trial yet performed, enrolling >100,000 women undergoing mammography screening
The use of AI led to 29% higher detection of cancer, no increase of false positives, and reduced workload compared with radiologists w/o AI thelancet.com/journals/lan...

04.02.2025 03:00 — 👍 1364    🔁 349    💬 38    📌 90
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The End of Search, The Beginning of Research The first narrow agents are here

wrote about Deep Research, which is very, very good at doing nuanced and complex research.

It is also the first narrow agent that can do sophisticated and likely quite economically valuable work, which tells us something important about the future. open.substack.com/pub/oneusefu...

03.02.2025 15:54 — 👍 97    🔁 16    💬 1    📌 2

Indeed. The Viture Pro does as you suggest. So all one needs is a lightweight display in glasses.

02.02.2025 04:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"Let there be pudding!" I'm in for the pudding potluck.

30.01.2025 17:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks, looking forward to the ggufs

30.01.2025 17:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

that's pretty awful

28.01.2025 17:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Any thoughts on the 70b model, quantized?

28.01.2025 04:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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This weekend I wrote a post on which AI to use right now (at least for general, individual users). Model strength may matter less to most users than the capabilities of the apps and the other features that each model includes. It is a little complicated.

www.oneusefulthing.org/p/which-ai-t...

27.01.2025 13:45 — 👍 86    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 5

A fine book, worthy of a reread now and then.

22.01.2025 22:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I'm almost unwilling to inflict my questions on it

22.01.2025 17:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Love your creative prompts and the results

22.01.2025 17:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Russell Goose, I believe

12.01.2025 00:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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