A practical walkthrough of mDNS, Zeroconf, and Apple’s AWDL — how AirDrop finds your phone, how smoltorrent discovers Raspberry Pis with no hardcoded IPs, and how a Swift sidecar bridges Python to Apple’s peer-to-peer WiFi stack.
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5 Bonsai-family 1–1.58bit LLMs benchmarked across 4 power modes on Jetson Orin Nano Super 8GB. 25W sweet spot: 47–48% more tok/s than 15W, best output tok/J for all sub-4B models.
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Build a 3-node Jetson Orin Nano Super 8GB cluster with active cooling. Real numbers: ~759 Mbps per link (gigabit), peak 58.3°C across all 3 nodes under full 18-core sustained load, zero throttling at 1728 MHz throughout.
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8 tiny LLMs benchmarked across 4 power modes on Jetson Orin Nano Super 8GB: llama.cpp vs Ollama. 25W sweet spot: 43% more tok/s than 15W, better tok/J than MAXN.
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A 942 MB checkpoint. Four Raspberry Pis. ~1.5 min gather. No single point of failure. A deep dive into smoltorrent - a distributed checkpoint sharding system built over raw TCP with replication, SHA-256 integrity verification, mDNS discovery, and Prometheus monitoring.
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Build a 4-node Raspberry Pi 4B cluster with UCTRONICS enclosure, PoE+ hats, and TP-Link LS110P PoE switch. Real numbers: 94.4 Mbps per link (100 Mbps switch ceiling), 62.3°C under full 16-core load, zero throttling at 1800 MHz throughout.
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Wire Mac minis into a high-bandwidth local Thunderbolt cluster for distributed training and inference with zero cloud egress cost, low latency, and direct control over cluster networking.
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