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A teenager in the United States started publishing software at 14 in 1998, built the entire online infrastructure for the Occupy Wall Street movement in 2011, joined Google as a software engineer, quit in 2018, and then spent five years writing a C library that does something the entire industry said was impossible. Then she combined it with llama.cpp and shipped the easiest way on the planet to run a large language model on any computer. Her name is Justine Tunney. Here is the story, because almost nobody outside the low level systems world knows what one engineer has built. Justine was born in 1984. She started writing and publishing software at 14, back when distribution meant uploading binaries to BBS systems and chat networks. She picked up the handle jart, which she still uses on GitHub today. She did the work most teenagers her age were not doing. She read the systems programming literature. She studied compilers. She fell in love with C. In July 2011 she registered the @occupywallst Twitter handle and the occupywallst dot org domain. Within weeks the protest movement that began in Zuccotti Park in New York had become a global phenomenon, and her infrastructure was the digital backbone of the entire thing. She handled the social media, the website, the donations, the coordination. She built the platform that pushed the movement to reach millions. After Occupy she joined Google as a software engineer. She worked on TensorBoard, the visualization tool for TensorFlow, and on site reliability for Google infrastructure. She stayed for years. Then in 2018 she left Google Brain to work on a personal project. The project was called Cosmopolitan Libc. Cosmopolitan does something most C programmers would tell you is mathematically impossible. It lets you compile a C program once and have the resulting binary run natively on Linux, Windows, macOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD with no modification. One file. Six operating systems. No virtual machines. No interpreters. No recompilation. The technique she invented is called Actually Portable Executable. The implications are wild. Cosmopolitan binaries violate every assumption about how operating systems load programs. They are at once a Windows PE file, a Linux ELF binary, a macOS Mach-O binary, and a shell script. The same bytes run on every platform. For five years she worked on it mostly alone. She funded the development partly through Mozilla's MIECO program, which sponsored her work on Cosmopolitan 3.0, released on October 31, 2023. A month later she shipped llamafile. llamafile is what happens when you combine Cosmopolitan with llama.cpp. You take any LLM weights file in the standard GGUF format, you wrap it in Justine's binary, and you get a single file that runs on six operating systems without installation. No Python. No CUDA setup. No dependency hell. Just one file that you double click and it works. Mozilla launched it as an official project of their innovation group on November 29, 2023. It went viral immediately. The repository, hosted at github .com/mozilla-ai/llamafile, now has 24,600 stars. The license is Apache 2.0. Justine kept shipping. She added GPU support to Cosmopolitan, a task systems engineers thought would require rewriting the whole thing. She added dlopen support, another thing nobody else had figured out. She wrote whisperfile, a single file version of OpenAI's Whisper speech-to-text model based on the same architecture. Her GitHub profile lists projects most engineers would consider impossible. sectorlisp, a Lisp interpreter that fits in a boot sector. blink, the tiniest x86-64-linux emulator on Earth. bestline, a teletypewriter command session library. redbean, a complete web server inside a single zip file. A teenager who shipped software in 1998 grew up to write the C library that the entire local AI movement now runs on top of. She did most of it alone, and most people scrolling AI Twitter cannot name her.

@bvlldhist_alt Why thou?

SME, Fintech boom is dead. Forget about it for 3-5 yrs

He must be paying attention to this matter, but he is telling the rest of yanks to pay attention.

@World_Data_A Stunning human progress. Solar hitting massive critical mass

. The world's largest battery energy storage systems (BESS) Featuring countries: SAUDI ARABIA * CHINA * AUSTRALIA * The USA * UAE * CHILE Grid operators and energy companies are scaling up battery storage at an unprecedented pace. Based on official energy capacity (MWh), here are some of the world's largest battery storage projects, grouped by project type. Single-phase projects (Built as one giant unit): These projects were built in a single phase at a single location. 1. Bisha BESS (Saudi Arabia) 500 MW / 2,000 MWh - Currently one of the largest operational single-phase battery storage facility. - Developed by Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) using BYD LFP technology. - Located in Asir Province and interconnected with the regional grids of Najran, Khamis Mushait, and Madaya. - Designed to absorb solar surpluses and improve grid reliability under Vision 2030. -These projects are physically built as a single battery installation, even though they may support multiple interconnected regional grids. 2. Tongliao BESS (China) 500 MW / 2,000 MWh - One of China's largest single-phase battery projects. - Built to support large-scale wind and solar integration. 3. Collie BESS (Australia) 500 MW / 2,400 MWh (gross) - One of the largest single-phase grid batteries in the Southern Hemisphere. - Designed to strengthen Western Australia's electricity system. Multi-phase and campus projects: These facilities achieved their scale through multiple expansion phases or integration with large solar projects. 1. Moss Landing (USA) 750 MW / 3,000 MWh - A former natural gas power plant converted into a multi-phase battery hub. - Among the world's largest operational BESS projects. 2. Crimson energy storage (USA) 350 MW / 1,400 MWh - A major standalone battery facility providing critical grid services in California. Largest operational solar-plus-storage projects: These projects combine utility-scale solar generation with battery storage. Edwards & Sanborn (USA) 875 MW / 3,287 MWh - One of the world's largest operational solar-plus-storage projects. - Located in California. Upcoming gigawatt-hour giants: These projects are under construction or in advanced development and could reshape the industry. 1. Australia-Asia power link (Australia) originally planned with up to 36-42 GWh of storage - One of the most ambitious energy projects ever proposed. - Designed to transmit solar power from northern Australia to Singapore via subsea cables. 2. Al Azeezah BESS (UAE) 19 GWh - Developed by Masdar. - Expected to become one of the Middle East's largest battery storage assets. 3. Oasis de Atacama (Chile) 11 GWh - A six-phase project in the Atacama Desert. - Intended to store Chile's abundant solar energy and support grid stability. Sources: Saudi Electricity Company (SEC), @BydStorage, @pvmagazine , @BloombergNEF, California Energy Commission

@RishiJoeSanu >74% of Bangalore's workforce comes from outside Karnataka. Bogus stuff. Yes for blue collar work this maybe true.

35-40% of Karnataka's GDP comes from Bangalore. 74% of Bangalore's workforce comes from outside Karnataka. Immigrants are Karnataka's cash cow. This is goals for Kerala.

@bhoota_ School fees is exorbitant. Too much income tax uptil 50L income. It is all adding up & ppl just giving up on kids.

@IndiaSpeaksPR Normie muslims are harassed by lindus and these guys doing the same in kashmir. Stupid low Iq Indian dildo vs Dalda fights never stops.

Kashmir always had just one solution - overwhelming demographic change. Everything else is various flavours of cope.

@anuj_gameshark @lil_lol_lal @priestlyclass I am readin this on a 1000yrs context. Not just ww2 imperial japan stuff. The collapse of Eastern Orthodox Byzantines to Ivan the impaler to cossacks conducting brutal raids on the Ottomans to Chinggis going berserk to the gates of moscov. And Serbs massacring ppl etc

@oprd24 @lil_lol_lal @priestlyclass That's true, but, we had the Japanese going warcrimes pro maxing across Asia. The severity of them being surpassing even what happened in the Balkans during the same time period.

Condition of our artillery is so blackpilling that I don't even want to write about it. We didn't even learn from history of Panipat battle where the major reason Ibrahim Lodi's numerically superior army lost was bcoz Babur's cannons terrified them. Even in 1962, one of the reasons for our defeat was artillery, our forces faced barrages of chinese artillery without adequate counter bombardment. Still our procurement process is slow, corrupt & incompetent.

@Jedi152381 @VasuEda @theMihirV There is difference in acutal reality & cowdung data of govs.

@VasuEda @theMihirV Graduates aged 15-25? By the time people graduate they are already 21-22. India unemployment rate is 5%, which is near full time employment

Indian economy is not on steroids. India has been growing prudently. We are one of the few countries to not increase the debt/GDP since 2008 financial crisis. Government, corporates and households have all been conservative about debt Which means that in times of crisis, we still have capacity to take on debt for growth if needed. We still have bullets left to fire - which can’t be said for many other countries

@Portfolio_Bull Even Jharkhand is not for beginners anymore now?

A gang in a Jharkhand village posed as Health Department officials and distributed "free mosquito nets." Villagers happily handed over Aadhaar copies and thumbprints to receive them. But the mosquito nets were just bait. The scammers used the thumbprints to create silicone fingerprint replicas And then drained victims' bank accounts through Aadhaar-enabled banking. • 30–40 victims targeted in a single afternoon
• ₹2,000–₹3,000 stolen per victim
• ₹60,000–₹1.2 lakh looted from one village
• ₹5–10 lakh siphoned in a week by a small gang They didn't steal huge amounts. They stole just enough from each account to avoid immediate suspicion. One fake welfare scheme One fingerprint Entire savings gone 🤐

@jcrajan00 Indies don't have packaged jucie or smoothie drinking culture. Thats why we don't have processing power yet. And most retails who try to sell end up paying massive realestate cost to even run the shops. India fails coz black money pumps realty to insane levels

I keep hearing 'India is an agricultural powerhouse.' We grow more mangoes, bananas, milk and wheat than almost anyone. Process about 10% of it. Thailand processes 30%. The US, 70%. The gap isn't technology. Every district has an entrepreneur who could run a processing unit. It's three cold storage vans and a reliable power connection. Unsexy problems nobody funds.

@bvlldhist_alt Corruption is by the hindus, for the hindus, of the hindus. It is a immutable fact now. Evevrytime i see how the electorate doesn't even squirm an inch for mass swindling it shows, they have given up. And it isn't a good sign for our nation state

These are feckless hindoo weasels Kind my godi media dad says “It is 1000 yr civilisational plan” “Corruption is inevitable” when he & I will be gone and compounding of chanakyan epochal genius will be interrupted suddenly and completely by non-linear forces like Babar’s camel mounted swivel guns, enfield rifles or Robotics tomorrow that shape the world outside Al Berunisque hinducope or laser eye diplomacy for 10 yrs with nothing to show

@NeetWorldOrder2 @Putin887 Recently i saw few east asian sport the rich behinds. Around 165cms tall ranges. The dudes who were with them def did not have long enf missiles to tap that size. It is happening, it is sort of a W for the bleq women.

@Putin887 Wut is interesting is dat white boiz have for long hated on big booty Wut happened dat so many white women no longer bother to cater to white boyz preferences Wut does it tell u bout white men

When & why did white insta thots sport a big booty Dis was not fashionable even 10 years back How come so many white hoes are rockin da big booty look on social media Wut happened

@ifOnlyKantala Albert Gadkari

Ethanol in petrol Isobutanol in diesel Ethanol in generators No infra for EV Dubai's price wants his brain Bigger brain and IQ than einstein

Indian Gov must allow Privateers in India and Indian passport holders to adopt ancient artifacts. This will create an entire industry ecosystem of sale, resale, tracking & taxes. Babu(oons) with BA pass must not be allowed to make policy for this

@bhoota_ Just intelligence won't make you rich. You need energy levels of a mule. I have told this here many times

@anuj_gameshark @lil_lol_lal @priestlyclass My context to say this- even before ww2 eastern europe, caucuses and Asia Minor saw too much brutality. The brutality reflects in ppl todsy even. Also, the reason why small countries in eastern europe still exist today is their ability to fight harder & cruel.

@oprd24 @lil_lol_lal @priestlyclass Everyone seems to forget how bad things were on the Pacific front or the CBI theater in WWII.

@bvlldhist_alt That should be 7 yrs in San Quentin style prison. Easy

USA should blacklist all colleges from this State. Causing needless reputational harm to India

@lil_lol_lal @priestlyclass Lol this was a good read. Each conflict zone has it's own flavour thou. In my view eastern europe uptill doors of moscow has seen some of the most cruel, deadly cruelty in this long human history.

@priestlyclass Ahhhh. . Mortar duels, perfect for the cowards hiding behind 3 hills. Reminds me of the article by Gary Brecher exiledonline.com/war-nerd-calle…

@kaliyuga_surfer I don't even like wearing watches chains rings etc. One time i decided to wear something and it is full of shit.

@kaliyuga_surfer I normally dont wear any watches or rings or such. Last yr i got titan world time and it is supoosed to show time and date of 12 diff time zones. It just gets eveveything wrong coz of date going wrong. Wasted 15K. Why release a watch which is a technically so wrong?

There was a time when even Soviet leaders wanted to wear an HMT. Those watches represented Indian excellence, and the will to innovate. Titan today does nothing more than make bland watches, with American movements sold in the name of nationalism.