My Book Housekeeping for Hallions is now Widely Available

Housekeeping for Hallions - https://hallions.ie/

As a hallion if you don't want to do something, put it off one day at a time. You can always put it off again the next time you don't want to do it. Procrastination is a learned skill, not a flaw. It's how you find out what doesn't matter. Important things wait. Adoption of a hallionistic outlook necessitates living simply, cutting as many corners as possible. This book may not be of much help in achieving any of those. 

Advisory: - many hardback offers are not geniune offers from me the author.
In the book marketplace there are dropship arbitrage sellers, or phantom-listing resellers listing stock they don't actually hold. As well there are automated repricer bots — these may also be price gougers or simply opportunists, trying to take a mark-up beyond the Recommended Retail Price. I say to these dogs it is a long road there is no turn in.The hardback will only be available via me personally. The exception to this is that any hardback listing on Amazon MUST list Amazon as the Shipper / Seller. 

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Gemma 4 26B

Gemma 4 26B on a 16 GB AMD GPU !

It's hard to be retired, the days are long - the hardware is slow - the internet is choked..
lol - no, it's not like that at all - I have fibre at 500Mb/sec - I just built out Gemma 26Bn as a local LLM running at almost silly t/sec of:

Today (verified on this build) Speculative

64K @ 40 tok/s, parallel=4         64K @ 60–100 tok/s with MTP

131K @ 37 tok/s, parallel=4         131K @ 55–92 tok/s with MTP

262K @ 26.74 tok/s, parallel=1 262K @ 40–67 tok/s, parallel=4, with MTP + TurboQuant

26B MoE on 16 GB                        31B Dense on 24 GB

so life is good... even better..

In my retirement, I don't garden; (I will if the weather ever gets better) for now I write across non fiction, technical and a selection of other vectors. This week, I validated 40 tok/s on a 26B Gemma 4 local build—outperforming most cloud-latency tiers. The full technical verification is hosted at, Logical Zombies Ltd."

here if you can't wait..
https://zombies.ie/blog-2026-q2-gemma-amd.html

"I spent the morning debating the ethics of silicon-based reasoning with Claude on the cloud, but I spent the afternoon actually running it on my own metal with Gemma. Is there difference between talking and doing, alas a 26B cannot compete with a 70B or wharever the number is in the stratosphere - it is like having a runabout easy to park versus the Ferrari waiting pensively for your return..

- FYI Ferrari is a make of car not a girl's name.
(I have had this 'debate' with all the LLM, in Ireland a girl is someone up to the age of 40 or so, some may see this as contrarian, great).

Abstract

The article documents the local-LLM build of Gemma 4 26B A4B (Apache 2.0) running on a Sapphire Nitro+ AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB consumer GPU under Ubuntu 24.04, with ROCm 7.2.1 and a hand-built llama.cpp HIP backend. Three configurations are verified from live server logs: 64K context at ~40 tok/s for daily multi-slot use, 131K context at ~37 tok/s for long-context work, and the model’s full native 262,144-token context at 26.74 tok/s in single-slot mode. Each tier is documented with its complete launch command, memory breakdown, and tok/s measurements taken from llama.cpp’s own timing instrumentation.

Part of a research and validation project for an ongoing technical Infrastructure Series.

Enjoy!

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https://zombies.ie/blog-2026-q2-gemma-amd.html

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Sony's Project Ace

"Sony AI's research project, Ace, is the first AI system to compete with and beat elite table tennis players under official rules.. "

Wheel Me Up Scotty

An electric motor in the form of a fiber

"In Science Robotics, researchers from MIT Media Lab and collaborators from Politecnico di Bari present Electrofluidic Fiber Muscles, a new class of artificial muscle fibers for robots and wearables."

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