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HTTP 418: I'm a teapot

The server identifies as a teapot now and is on a tea break, brb

HTTP 418: I'm a teapot

The server identifies as a teapot now and is on a tea break, brb

Science epiphany Memes

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Midnight Chemistry: Not Crackhead Behavior, Just PFAS Epiphany

Chemistry Science Materials Research
1 year ago 46.2K views 0 shares
Midnight Chemistry: Not Crackhead Behavior, Just PFAS Epiphany
That's not crackhead behavior—that's a chemist having a midnight epiphany about perfluoroalcohols! Someone stumbled upon the molecular structure of PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances), those notoriously persistent "forever chemicals." The desperate whiteboard scribbling shows the carbon-fluorine bonds that make these compounds so stable they practically never break down in nature. The security guard probably thought they discovered a meth recipe, but nope—just a scientist having a fluorine-induced breakthrough at 2AM. Chemistry doesn't care about your sleep schedule!

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Back up Hugging Face models to a NAS before they vanish

Models do disappear from Hugging Face. How I keep a local copy I can verify: pinned hf download, SHA256 manifests, Ollama's blob store, and a ... Read article →

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