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Running a 744B AI Model on Regular Hardware 2026-07-21 04:38:01

Running a 744B AI Model on Regular Hardware The Problem Large AI models like GLM-5.2 have 744 billion parameters. These need huge amounts of memory - more than…

Building a Game Boy Emulator for AI Training 2026-07-21 04:38:01

Building a Game Boy Emulator for AI Training What is rlgb? rlgb is a fast Game Boy emulator written in C from scratch. But it's not built for playing games - i…

Building a Minecraft Server in Rust 2026-07-21 04:38:01

Building a Minecraft Server in Rust What is mc-rust? mc-rust is a Minecraft server built entirely in Rust. Instead of using the official Java server, we wrote …