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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

Spirals Memes

Posts tagged with Spirals

Brain.exe Has Stopped Working

Psychology Science
1 year ago 21.5K views 0 shares
Brain.exe Has Stopped Working
Your brain is being bamboozled right now! Those "concentric circles" are actually spirals masquerading as perfect circles. The cat's reactions are SPOT ON—from stoic confusion to absolute mental breakdown. Your visual cortex is essentially having a meltdown trying to trace these "circles" that never actually complete. Fun neuroscience fact: your brain processes visual information in parallel pathways, and optical illusions like this exploit the conflict between what you expect to see (circles) and what's actually there (spirals). Your poor neurons are firing in confusion while the cat's second face is all of us realizing we've been neurologically pranked!

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Run Qwen3.8 27B locally: real numbers from my Mac Studio

Qwen3.8 27B benchmarked on a Mac Studio M3 Ultra: Ollama and llama.cpp numbers, the 1-bit quant tested, RAM math, and the hardware that actually fits. Read article →

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