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Measured 2026-07-21 on vllm/vllm-tpu:nightly (vLLM 0.23.1rc1.dev1076), a GCE flex-start ct6e-standard-1t (one TPU v6e chip, 32 GB HBM) in europe-west4-a. TL;DR The plain google/gemma-4-E2B-it serves well on one v6e chip; none of its QAT siblings load at all. The 2-billion-parameter "efficient" Gemma 4 sustains 213 tok/s for a single user with a 16 ms first token, scales to ~2,200 output tok/s across concurrent streams, handles OpenAI-style function calling — including pa...

The first hour with a new repo is archaeology: open package.json , skim the Makefile, hunt for .env.example , grep workflows for secrets. , check Compose for ports. I already built focused tools for each of those questions. What I still wanted was one command that prints the whole map. coldstart coldstart is that overview — offline, no accounts, agent-friendly JSON. go install github.com/SybilGambleyyu/coldstart@latest coldstart coldstart -md >> ON...

Quick Answer The "8 glasses a day" rule was never a research finding — it originated from a 1945 recommendation that was widely misquoted. How much water you actually need depends on your body weight, activity level, and climate. Most adults are mildly dehydrated for most of the day without knowing it, because thirst only activates after a 1–2% fluid deficit is already established — the same level at which mood, concentration, and physical performance are measurably impaired in controlled tr...

Optimizing RAG at Scale: Chunking, Retrieval, and the Bayesian Search That Cut Latency 40% How we moved from "semantic search + hope" to a measured, tunable retrieval pipeline with 95% recall@10 The RAG Reality Check Everyone ships RAG the same way: chunk by 512 tokens, embed with text-embedding-3-small , top-k=5, stuff into context. It works for demos. Then you hit production: Legal contracts: 512 tokens splits clauses mid-sentence API docs: 1000-token chunks...

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