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The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (#ICCL) has released an open source tool designed to reduce LLM hallucinations.

If my 15-year-old PC had a GPU I'd be tempted to give it a try.

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/ai/iccl-launches-open-source-tool-to-reduce-llm-hallucinations?utm_source=mastodon_org&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=May_ICCL

#verity #hallucination #ai #opensource #qwen #granite #ibm #gpu #ireland

The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (#ICCL) has released an open source tool designed to reduce LLM hallucinations.

If my 15-year-old PC had a GPU I'd be tempted to give it a try.

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/ai/iccl-launches-open-source-tool-to-reduce-llm-hallucinations?utm_source=mastodon_org&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=May_ICCL

#verity #hallucination #ai #opensource #qwen #granite #ibm #gpu #ireland

The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (#ICCL) has released an open source tool designed to reduce LLM hallucinations.

If my 15-year-old PC had a GPU I'd be tempted to give it a try.

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/ai/iccl-launches-open-source-tool-to-reduce-llm-hallucinations?utm_source=mastodon_org&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=May_ICCL

#verity #hallucination #ai #opensource #qwen #granite #ibm #gpu #ireland

The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (#ICCL) has released an open source tool designed to reduce LLM hallucinations.

If my 15-year-old PC had a GPU I'd be tempted to give it a try.

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/ai/iccl-launches-open-source-tool-to-reduce-llm-hallucinations?utm_source=mastodon_org&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=May_ICCL

#verity #hallucination #ai #opensource #qwen #granite #ibm #gpu #ireland

The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (#ICCL) has released an open source tool designed to reduce LLM hallucinations.

If my 15-year-old PC had a GPU I'd be tempted to give it a try.

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/ai/iccl-launches-open-source-tool-to-reduce-llm-hallucinations?utm_source=mastodon_org&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=May_ICCL

#verity #hallucination #ai #opensource #qwen #granite #ibm #gpu #ireland

Sunny, shiny, and #Nikita, in the #quarry

#photography #model #granite #water

🚀 Oh, rejoice! #IBM has graced us with the #Granite 4.1 family: a *gargantuan* collection of models only a corporate overlord could love. Apparently, they are the Swiss Army knife of AI—just what every enterprise needs to add a delightful layer of #complexity to their already Byzantine IT infrastructures. 🙄🔧
https://research.ibm.com/blog/granite-4-1-ai-foundation-models #AI #AIModels #EnterpriseIT #HackerNews #ngated

🚀 Oh, rejoice! #IBM has graced us with the #Granite 4.1 family: a *gargantuan* collection of models only a corporate overlord could love. Apparently, they are the Swiss Army knife of AI—just what every enterprise needs to add a delightful layer of #complexity to their already Byzantine IT infrastructures. 🙄🔧
https://research.ibm.com/blog/granite-4-1-ai-foundation-models #AI #AIModels #EnterpriseIT #HackerNews #ngated

🚀 Oh, rejoice! #IBM has graced us with the #Granite 4.1 family: a *gargantuan* collection of models only a corporate overlord could love. Apparently, they are the Swiss Army knife of AI—just what every enterprise needs to add a delightful layer of #complexity to their already Byzantine IT infrastructures. 🙄🔧
https://research.ibm.com/blog/granite-4-1-ai-foundation-models #AI #AIModels #EnterpriseIT #HackerNews #ngated

🚀 Oh, rejoice! #IBM has graced us with the #Granite 4.1 family: a *gargantuan* collection of models only a corporate overlord could love. Apparently, they are the Swiss Army knife of AI—just what every enterprise needs to add a delightful layer of #complexity to their already Byzantine IT infrastructures. 🙄🔧
https://research.ibm.com/blog/granite-4-1-ai-foundation-models #AI #AIModels #EnterpriseIT #HackerNews #ngated

🚀 Oh, rejoice! #IBM has graced us with the #Granite 4.1 family: a *gargantuan* collection of models only a corporate overlord could love. Apparently, they are the Swiss Army knife of AI—just what every enterprise needs to add a delightful layer of #complexity to their already Byzantine IT infrastructures. 🙄🔧
https://research.ibm.com/blog/granite-4-1-ai-foundation-models #AI #AIModels #EnterpriseIT #HackerNews #ngated

The IBM Granite 4.1 family of models

https://research.ibm.com/blog/granite-4-1-ai-foundation-models

#HackerNews #IBM #Granite #AI #models #technology #innovation #research

😂 Wow, IBM's new #Granite #4.1 is like the #chihuahua of #AI models, #barking at the big dogs and pretending it can hunt like a wolf 🐕‍🦺. Who knew an 8B model could be so #delusional, thinking it can compete with a 32B MoE without leaving a trail of giggles and disbelief? 🤣 Keep dreaming, IBM!
https://firethering.com/granite-4-1-ibm-open-source-model-family/ #IBM #Competition #HackerNews #ngated

😂 Wow, IBM's new #Granite #4.1 is like the #chihuahua of #AI models, #barking at the big dogs and pretending it can hunt like a wolf 🐕‍🦺. Who knew an 8B model could be so #delusional, thinking it can compete with a 32B MoE without leaving a trail of giggles and disbelief? 🤣 Keep dreaming, IBM!
https://firethering.com/granite-4-1-ibm-open-source-model-family/ #IBM #Competition #HackerNews #ngated

😂 Wow, IBM's new #Granite #4.1 is like the #chihuahua of #AI models, #barking at the big dogs and pretending it can hunt like a wolf 🐕‍🦺. Who knew an 8B model could be so #delusional, thinking it can compete with a 32B MoE without leaving a trail of giggles and disbelief? 🤣 Keep dreaming, IBM!
https://firethering.com/granite-4-1-ibm-open-source-model-family/ #IBM #Competition #HackerNews #ngated

😂 Wow, IBM's new #Granite #4.1 is like the #chihuahua of #AI models, #barking at the big dogs and pretending it can hunt like a wolf 🐕‍🦺. Who knew an 8B model could be so #delusional, thinking it can compete with a 32B MoE without leaving a trail of giggles and disbelief? 🤣 Keep dreaming, IBM!
https://firethering.com/granite-4-1-ibm-open-source-model-family/ #IBM #Competition #HackerNews #ngated

Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE

https://firethering.com/granite-4-1-ibm-open-source-model-family/

#HackerNews #Granite #IBM #Model #MoE #AI

Clouds and peaks: John Day Fossil Beds National Monument (Painted Hills) and Yosemite National Park (Half Dome). Learn more at https://www.nps.gov/joda/index.htm and https://www.nps.gov/yose/index.htm and #nps #nationalparks #interpretation #oregon #publiclands #landscapephotography #photography #fossil #nationalmonument #research Image credit (1) National Park Service and (2) Yosemite Conservancy and National Park Service #yosemite #cawx #california #halfdome #sun #granite #nationalpark #geology #travel #leaves #trees #spring #orwx #color #sky #fence #building #solar #needles #art

Clouds and peaks: John Day Fossil Beds National Monument (Painted Hills) and Yosemite National Park (Half Dome). Learn more at https://www.nps.gov/joda/index.htm and https://www.nps.gov/yose/index.htm and #nps #nationalparks #interpretation #oregon #publiclands #landscapephotography #photography #fossil #nationalmonument #research Image credit (1) National Park Service and (2) Yosemite Conservancy and National Park Service #yosemite #cawx #california #halfdome #sun #granite #nationalpark #geology #travel #leaves #trees #spring #orwx #color #sky #fence #building #solar #needles #art

Clouds and peaks: John Day Fossil Beds National Monument (Painted Hills) and Yosemite National Park (Half Dome). Learn more at https://www.nps.gov/joda/index.htm and https://www.nps.gov/yose/index.htm and #nps #nationalparks #interpretation #oregon #publiclands #landscapephotography #photography #fossil #nationalmonument #research Image credit (1) National Park Service and (2) Yosemite Conservancy and National Park Service #yosemite #cawx #california #halfdome #sun #granite #nationalpark #geology #travel #leaves #trees #spring #orwx #color #sky #fence #building #solar #needles #art

Clouds and peaks: John Day Fossil Beds National Monument (Painted Hills) and Yosemite National Park (Half Dome). Learn more at https://www.nps.gov/joda/index.htm and https://www.nps.gov/yose/index.htm and #nps #nationalparks #interpretation #oregon #publiclands #landscapephotography #photography #fossil #nationalmonument #research Image credit (1) National Park Service and (2) Yosemite Conservancy and National Park Service #yosemite #cawx #california #halfdome #sun #granite #nationalpark #geology #travel #leaves #trees #spring #orwx #color #sky #fence #building #solar #needles #art

Clouds and peaks: John Day Fossil Beds National Monument (Painted Hills) and Yosemite National Park (Half Dome). Learn more at https://www.nps.gov/joda/index.htm and https://www.nps.gov/yose/index.htm and #nps #nationalparks #interpretation #oregon #publiclands #landscapephotography #photography #fossil #nationalmonument #research Image credit (1) National Park Service and (2) Yosemite Conservancy and National Park Service #yosemite #cawx #california #halfdome #sun #granite #nationalpark #geology #travel #leaves #trees #spring #orwx #color #sky #fence #building #solar #needles #art

https://www.europesays.com/people/40565/ Trump renovates Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool #AmericanFlagBlue #capital #CaseStudy #DonaldTrump #granite #History #law #LincolnMemorial #LincolnMemorialReflectingPool #nation #plan #Politics #President #Project #ReflectingPool #site #surface #SwimmingPoolSurface #Tourism #Trump #WhiteHouse #year

Here is Leather Tor Bridge, built from local #Granite, which again is covered in #Lichens.

#MyWork #MyPhoto #CCBYSA #DSLR #Nikon #D7000

Part 2 of hiking around #BurratorReservoir in #Dartmoor.

At the top of #Sheepstor, we can see the #granite formations with their #weathered #joints. Unlike limestone, say, granite is not soluble in #water and so it’s the mechanical action of abrasion that wears it down. The resulting formations are very #Craggy.

#MyWork #MyPhoto #CCBYSA #DSLR #Nikon #D7000

Yosemite National Park this morning. For more information https://www.nps.gov/yose/index.htm and https://yosemite.org/ and https://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/weathermap.htm and #interpretation #nps #nationalparks #publiclands #landscapephotography #photography Image credit Yosemite Conservancy and National Park Service #yosemite #cawx #spring #trees #california #halfdome #sun #granite #nationalpark #geology #snow #travel #leaves

Here’s a #Granite #Bolder resting on a plinth. It often looks like they’ve been artificially placed there as works of art but it’s only the forces of #geology and #erosion which has done that. You can see the reservoir in the background.

#MyWork #MyPhoto #CCBYSA #DSLR #Nikon #D7000

Fly-over Midwest
Some states are just expected
Taken for granite

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #BackToHaiku #Seasons #Ohio #Weather #March #Spring #Midwest #Flyover #TakenForGranted #Granite #TakenForGranite #Ohio #USA #Photography #2026

March 25, 2026

Perthite, in a fayalite-hastingsite hypersolvus granite, Cauro-Bastelica Complex, Tolla dam, Corsica

The minerals crystallized from melt at high temperature and water-poor conditions.

#ThinSectionThursday #Minerals #Corsica #Granite

Perthite, in a fayalite-hastingsite hypersolvus granite, Cauro-Bastelica Complex, Tolla dam, Corsica

The minerals crystallized from melt at high temperature and water-poor conditions.

#ThinSectionThursday #Minerals #Corsica #Granite

Perthite, in a fayalite-hastingsite hypersolvus granite, Cauro-Bastelica Complex, Tolla dam, Corsica

The minerals crystallized from melt at high temperature and water-poor conditions.

#ThinSectionThursday #Minerals #Corsica #Granite

Perthite, in a fayalite-hastingsite hypersolvus granite, Cauro-Bastelica Complex, Tolla dam, Corsica

The minerals crystallized from melt at high temperature and water-poor conditions.

#ThinSectionThursday #Minerals #Corsica #Granite

https://www.europesays.com/ie/361479/ Intel Publishes “Granite Rapids-WS” Xeon 600 Turbo Frequencies, AVX-512 and AMX Slash Boost Speeds #600 #amx #Avx512 #avx2 #boost #Éire #frequencies #Granite #Https://wwwTechpowerupCom/346889/intelPublishesGraniteRapidsWsXeon600TurboFrequenciesAvx512AndAmxSlashBoostSpeeds #IE #intel #Ireland #News #publishes #RapidsWs #Slash #speeds #sse #Technology #Turbo #xeon #Xeon600

Also from Yosemite National Park this morning. For more information https://www.nps.gov/yose/index.htm and https://yosemite.org/ and https://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/weathermap.htm and #interpretation #nps #nationalparks #publiclands #landscapephotography #photography Image credit Yosemite Conservancy and National Park Service #yosemite #cawx #winter #trees #california #halfdome #sun #granite #nationalpark #geology #snow #travel #glaciers

Yosemite National Park this morning. For more information https://www.nps.gov/yose/index.htm and https://yosemite.org/ and https://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/weathermap.htm and #interpretation #nps #nationalparks #publiclands #landscapephotography #photography Image credit Yosemite Conservancy and National Park Service #yosemite #cawx #winter #trees #california #halfdome #sun #granite #nationalpark #geology #snow #travel

I was happy to be able to witness this carving of a monument over the course of 6 months from a solid cube of granite to the finished product. The sculptor ,Samantha Newman, was working in the cemetery down the street from me as an artist in residence to create this for an unmarked grave of adults and children who died of contagious diseases over 100 years ago.

#sculpture #cemetery #photography #granite #monument #queensnyc #kewgardens #maplegrove

Day 4 saw us dipping into Sierra National Forest for the day before returning to a near lake camp, all via a pair of magnificent passes: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2025/08/buena-yosemite-rutherford-lake-and-post.html

#California #MaderaCounty #YosemiteNationalPark #SierraNationalForest #YosemiteWilderness #AnselAdamsWilderness
#hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #backpacking #mountainPass #granite #views

St. Helen's Oratory, Cape Cornwall.

#Cornwall #Kernow #holy #oratory #granite #cross

Day 3: The attempt to reach Smith and Morris Lakes. It was rather more strenuous than expected. I need to practice some boulder hopping.

https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2025/07/alpine-smith-and-morris-lakes.html

#California #TrinityCounty #ShastaTrinityNationalForest #TrinityAlpsWilderness
#hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #backpacking #lake #granite #TrinityNationalForest

A pegmatite is an #igneousRock showing a very coarse #texture, with large interlocking #crystals usually greater in size than 1 cm (0.4 in) and sometimes greater than 1 meter (3 ft). Most pegmatites are composed of #quartz, #feldspar, and #mica, having a similar #silicic composition to #granite. However, rarer #intermediateComposition and #mafic pegmatites are known. Many of the world's largest crystals are found within pegmatites. These include crystals of #microcline, quartz, mica, #spodumene.

Tidal River, Wilsons Prom, VIC Australia

More about me & prints:
https://linktr.ee/steven.sandner

#Promontory #Granite #Textures #Coastline #Erosion #Stillness #Skyward #Ancient #Tide #Shoreline

#Claude4 #Sonnet and I just created this new #AIAgent (#AgenticAI) app called Context Dictionary for our #ICandy #browser #dashboard. A user can upload a text or pdf file to read in this app. To check the definition and contextual meaning of a word, the user only needs to left click the mouse. A bubble will appear to give the user the contextual meaning of the word. We are using #IBM #granite 3.3 8B on my local LM Studio server as the AI agent.

#LLM #AI #dictionary #English

'fILTR' a brutalist concrete coffee filter holder. In the pictures the holder holds a pack of 100 number 2 coffee filters. It should be able to hold larger size filters, the larger filters will stick out more of the holder.
☕ 🗿

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1794954893/brutalist-concrete-coffee-filter-holder?ref=shop_home_active_6&logging_key=e387d7523d0db088f5de33c481bd2435688741a2%3A1794954893

#coffeeandcream #coffee #filter #interior #tableware #espresso #brutalism #concrete #terrazzo #cyberpunk #industrial #style #stone #granite #stoneware #art #handmade #architecture

I am testing the capabilities of some small #LLM 's on #LMStudio today. These 7 to 12 B models are much stronger than I thought. Some of them run pretty fast, but some larger models are burning my #rtx4060 #GPU. I think I will settle with #IBM #Granite 3.3 which is a 8B model but was further trained by #unsloth to 9B. Granite 3.3 came out in April this year. In the long run, I will need a 20 to 40B model. But then I most likely need an rtx 5090 machine with 64G VRAM to run them. #AI #AIs

I am testing the capabilities of some small #LLM 's on #LMStudio today. These 7 to 12 B models are much stronger than I thought. Some of them run pretty fast, but some larger models are burning my #rtx4060 #GPU. I think I will settle with #IBM #Granite 3.3 which is a 8B model but was further trained by #unsloth to 9B. Granite 3.3 came out in April this year. In the long run, I will need a 20 to 40B model. But then I most likely need an rtx 5090 machine with 64G VRAM to run them. #AI #AIs

I am testing the capabilities of some small #LLM 's on #LMStudio today. These 7 to 12 B models are much stronger than I thought. Some of them run pretty fast, but some larger models are burning my #rtx4060 #GPU. I think I will settle with #IBM #Granite 3.3 which is a 8B model but was further trained by #unsloth to 9B. Granite 3.3 came out in April this year. In the long run, I will need a 20 to 40B model. But then I most likely need an rtx 5090 machine with 64G VRAM to run them. #AI #AIs

I am testing the capabilities of some small #LLM 's on #LMStudio today. These 7 to 12 B models are much stronger than I thought. Some of them run pretty fast, but some larger models are burning my #rtx4060 #GPU. I think I will settle with #IBM #Granite 3.3 which is a 8B model but was further trained by #unsloth to 9B. Granite 3.3 came out in April this year. In the long run, I will need a 20 to 40B model. But then I most likely need an rtx 5090 machine with 64G VRAM to run them. #AI #AIs

The Cheesewring, Bodmin Moor, Cornwall

A natural geological granite formation shaped by weathering. In the late C19 it was threatened by its proximity to blasting at the Cheesewring Granite Quarry but it was saved through protests by local people.

#Cornwall #BodminMoor #Geology #Granite

Daffodils in the rock garden.

#BloomScrolling #daffodils #SpringFlowers #YellowFlowers #RockGarden #April3 #granite #bedrock #FlowersOfMastodon #flowers #gardening #FlowerGarden #florespondence #spring

The Chikanishing Trail, Killarney Provincial Park Ontario Canada was a rough, rugged trail over rocky terrain and the odd rickety, weathered wooden bridge or boardwalk. The fall foliage was stunning especially with the pink granite. Click link to view for #FreeShipping North America on #wallart
https://www.pictorem.com/151973/Chikanishing%20Trail%20Boardwalk%20II.html
#granite #rock #geological #landscape #nature #BuyIntoArt #artforsale #LandscapePhotography #NatureMastodon #RockOfMastodon #fall #autumn #Photography