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Funding stock buybacks by selling your primary reserve asset is a dangerous game, but Lite Strategy just pulled it off without using a dime of debt
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Ran DS V4-Flash-0731 Locally on 3xMI50 32GB @ ~15 t/s TG
Hey y'all. I'll be concise. TL;DR: DS V4-Flash-0731 @ UD-IQ2_M running fully in VRAM on 3xMI50s (90.9 GB model, 96 GB VRAM). Actual speed on llama-server is: - Text Generation: ~15-16 tokens/secon
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