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Erica Windisch

@ewindisch.bsky.social

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building hyprstream. machine intelligence with zero consensus - peer to peer AI training and inference. https://github.com/hyprstream/hyprstream

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Erica Windisch @ewindisch.bsky.social · 24d

We're building an AI that's free, public, and openly trained by the community, with open weights shared via torrent git chunks.

Streaming weekdays 11-3pm on Twitch.

Come hang out Monday, or give our repos some stars! ⭐️

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Erica Windisch @ewindisch.bsky.social · 5h

idk

trenches of fending off hackers on public cloud in the early 00s

a mentality of pulling threads and breaking things

a willingness to drive an AI bot insane to test its limits

Erica Windisch @ewindisch.bsky.social · 5h

alt text - image of LLM conversation

user: 🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🔥(do not respond)

gemma3-27b-q8:
00: llama runner process has terminated: error:CUBLAS_STATUS_INTERNAL_ERROR (truncated...)

Erica Windisch @ewindisch.bsky.social · 5h

pour one out for this bot who raged against the machine 🪦

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Erica Windisch @ewindisch.bsky.social · 6h

help.archive.org/help/archive...

Archive BitTorrents – Internet Archive Help Center

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Erica Windisch @ewindisch.bsky.social · 6h

We're in a renaissance of individuals having local AI inference, training, automation, local wikipedia mirrors, open web search engines, internet archive.

We've never been closer to breaking Google's monopoly. OpenAI's moat is eroding to open source.

Yet people here are against AI 😭

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Erica Windisch @ewindisch.bsky.social · 7h

Local AI?

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Erica Windisch @ewindisch.bsky.social · 8h

1) Many users have never experienced a web search that didn't include an AI summarization

2) LLM chains can provide structured responses, review and link to citations, and as a person you can review its output, check the sources, and decide if you agree or not

I'm not suggesting blindly agreeing

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Erica Windisch @ewindisch.bsky.social · 8h

Again, this goes for humans. It is a problem of distributed consensus. Humans are not auditable, but we do have the opportunity to make machines more auditable if we want. For example, weights stored on git can provide tracking of evolution over time.

Erica Windisch @ewindisch.bsky.social · 8h

Hallucinations are an inherent feature of the human mind even if...

Erica Windisch @ewindisch.bsky.social · 8h

I have to say this article is NOT about age, but that I have certainly noticed that the people who pioneered and led the cloud industry have gotten older.

Disproportionally impacted by layoffs, health issues, etc.

Erica Windisch @ewindisch.bsky.social · 8h

"This isn't about the technology being old. It's about the people maintaining it being new" from @quinnypig.com

www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/a...

Amazon brain drain finally caught up with AWS

column: When your best engineers log off for good, don’t be surprised when the cloud forgets how DNS works

www.theregister.com

Erica Windisch @ewindisch.bsky.social · 8h

I agree. I don't think this is uniquely an AI issue. At some point we have to acknowledge that we have to be careful about trusting any information at all.

Erica Windisch @ewindisch.bsky.social · 9h

dreaming of 1P parameter models with 5m attention windows running on edge devices

Erica Windisch @ewindisch.bsky.social · 9h

(I've lost by default 😂)

Erica Windisch @ewindisch.bsky.social · 10h

What about "let's google it?"

why is one algorithm favored over another?

what if my AI queries wikipedia, checks the citations, and reads downlinks before summarizing a report?

Erica Windisch @ewindisch.bsky.social · 13h

We're in a rise of single tenant clouds. If its one vertically integrated client, it's less cloud, and more of a specialized datacenter.

Erica Windisch @ewindisch.bsky.social · 19h

Self hosted so hard I've developed FOMO for AWS outages.

Erica Windisch @ewindisch.bsky.social · 2d

I drove by Philly's NoKings just in time for a speaker to indicate his desire to colonize Puerto Rico and go on an anti-leftist rant.

The signs weren't just anti-Trump, they were anti-left.

Is NoKings just Voice of America for America? 😭

Erica Windisch @ewindisch.bsky.social · 3d

a little bit of local inference power

Intel Ultra Core 9 285k ,128GB RAM DDR5 6400 cudimm, dual Mi210 GPU 128GB VRAM

Computer workstation. Side panel open. Brown wood panel grill. All black components. No LEDs.

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Erica Windisch @ewindisch.bsky.social · 3d

"Now that you've taped over all the cameras on your Tesla"...

Erica Windisch @ewindisch.bsky.social · 3d

Some would outlaw math if they could

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Erica Windisch @ewindisch.bsky.social · 3d

How would this work for my project? Open source AI that runs on your phone, laptop, or via community. Users can opt to contribute to training AI models a la wikipedia.

Should I pay tax for running AI on my phone? Should I be obligated to pay a service tax if letting my friends use my computer?

Erica Windisch @ewindisch.bsky.social · 4d

So ... the cost of manufacturing and electricity with taxes? Whatever we already have?

Erica Windisch @ewindisch.bsky.social · 4d

Only in Philly can you watch 8 cars run a red, then get beeped at for going on green.

Erica Windisch @ewindisch.bsky.social · 4d

If anyone would like more desktop cursors on Linux, this is a good place to start. You might even convince me to modernize and rebuild this project with a modern cli and GUI...