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Fixtures, equipment, fasteners, tools and devices used for general-purpose construction and repair of a structure or object. Also such equipment as sold as stock by a store of the same name, e.g. hardware store.
He needed a hammer, nails, screws, nuts, bolts and other assorted hardware, so he went to the hardware store.
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MiniCPM3-4B matches 8-10B models for reasoning at just 4B, plus an Apache-2.0 licence. Peak performance hinges on deep Ascend integration, potentially limiting appeal. Hard to see practitioners adopting it over 7B mod…
(informal) Equipment.
BOWEN: The monster trucks of Mars rovers, joke scientists, equipped with an array of sophisticated hardware to look for signs of water and answer scientists questions.
“Who else saw this one coming? 👀 This is a reality check that every organization needs to have. And who better to listen to than the people selling the hardware that we're all racing to get our hands on.”
“Really, for every exec, the answer is simple: If you replace an engineer whose salary is $150k with $200k worth of hardware and oversight, your team is not moving as far ahead as you think you are. Does this sound like your organization? Maybe I can offer some advice.👇”
“Yanis Le Fur, Ethan Egger, Hong-Ye Hu, Vincent Russo, William J. Zeng, Ryan LaRose: Opportunities and challenges in scaling quantum error detection on hardware https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.02861 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.02861 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.02861”
“I honestly feel that there needs to be more said about the rebelle IO since there is no tutorials introducing how to use it ✍🏼 I’m willing to make a video on it once I have my hardware running correctly, but it would be great to hear what else you want to talk about too 📚💻🎮”
“Additionally, Germany had decided to develop its own soft- and hardware solutions (certain satellite systems, comms, deployable C2 infrastructure, and so on) to have a European strike planning infrastructure instead of procuring such systems from the USA. 5/6”
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(computing) The part of a computer that is fixed and cannot be altered without replacement or physical modification; motherboard, expansion cards, etc.
It is one thing to see an intercooler as a simple entry in a textbook, but to witness the actual hardware as it crawled down the road was awe-inspiring.
“This tweet appeared under this Techmeme headline: Pedro Domingos / @pmddomingos: Vaporware used to be software, but now it's hardware as well.”
“This tweet appeared under this Techmeme headline: @wiimee: Every single piece of code can put your crypto funds at risk if you are still relying on a software wallet to keep your keys safe in 2026. Get a freaking hardware wallet or a dedicated device for crypto!”
“MiniCPM3-4B matches 8-10B models for reasoning at just 4B, plus an Apache-2.0 licence. Peak performance hinges on deep Ascend integration, potentially limiting appeal. Hard to see practitioners adopting it over 7B models without proof of efficiency on generic edge hardware.”
“@ianRobinson Don't forget that you can buy a hardware keyboard for the same price as an iPad.”
“A new Apache 2.0 Arabic-Spanish NMT model specifically targets Huawei's Ascend NPUs for efficiency. However, verifiable performance benchmarks on Ascend hardware are notably absent. It's a tough sell for Ascend adopters if the touted NPU gains lack empirical evidence.”
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