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The Unfinished Mind

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  Serial Polymaths and the Art of Intellectual Migration In continuation of my earlier article - https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/before-llms-came-polymaths-sanjay-basu-phd-zltwc/ , I am following up with this week's article on polymaths, whose work I have studied and continue to study to date. There is a peculiar kind of mind that refuses to stay put. Not the restless kind that flits from idea to idea without depth. We all know that type. This is something else. A rarer phenomenon. A mind that descends into a discipline, learns its language, reshapes it, leaves a mark, and then walks away. Not out of boredom. Not out of failure. But because the center of gravity has shifted. History does not quite know what to do with such people. We call them polymaths. But that word is too generous and too vague. It includes the dabbler and the collector of curiosities. What we are really looking at here is sharper. A serial polymath. Someone who does not merely know many things, but lives many ...
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The CPU Tier for Agents and Small Language Models

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  Copyright: Sanjay Basu Which Agents and Which Small Models Actually Belong There Treat this as A field guide to running agentic AI on OCI compute without touching a GPU. I published a piece a couple of weeks ago on running inference on the X12 Standard Acceleron shape with Intel Xeon 6 and AMX. Here is the link — https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/run-ai-inference-without-gpus The response split cleanly into two camps. Half the readers wanted the benchmark methodology. The other half asked a better question — ‘fine, the silicon works, but which agents and which models am I supposed to put on it?’ That is the harder question, and nobody has written it down properly. So here it is. This is not an argument that CPUs replace GPUs. I ran one of the larger GPU fleets in the industry, and I have no interest in pretending otherwise. It is an argument that a large fraction of what enterprises currently route to an NVIDIA H200 or NVIDIA B200 or AMD MI355X has no business being...
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