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ilya sergeev

@krauncherMunich, GermanyJoined June 2026

Research Founder & AI Orchestrator at Krauncher

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ISilya sergeevkrauncher.hashnode.dev6d ago · 12 min read

Qwen3.8 FP8: does the cheap card really save?

Cost of the Answer — issue #2. Issue #1 closed on a promise. The FP8 checkpoint fits a 32 GB consumer card that BF16 cannot rent, and the consumer card costs about half as much per hour as the 96 GB w

ISilya sergeevkrauncher.hashnode.devAug 17 · 9 min read

Qwen3.8: is FP8 worth it under transformers?

Cost of the Answer — issue #1. Qwen3.8-27B ships in two precisions on the HuggingFace hub. The FP8 checkpoint is roughly half the byte count of the BF16 one, and I wanted to know what that halving buy

ISilya sergeevkrauncher.hashnode.devAug 5 · 17 min read

Most people who quit machine learning never got to it

Disclosure: I build Krauncher, a service that prices GPU tasks before they run and places them on rented hardware. This article compares it honestly with the alternatives, including the ones I use mys

ISilya sergeevkrauncher.hashnode.devJul 8 · 5 min read

The Messy Real World, or Why Probability Decides What You Pay

Researchers pick GPUs the way a spec sheet invites them to: choose a card, read a number, pay the bill. But the real world doesn't behave like a number. It behaves like a cloud — and that cloud is thr

ISilya sergeevkrauncher.hashnode.devJun 30 · 14 min read

There are two ways to rent a GPU. I think there's a third.

Disclosure: I build Krauncher, a service that prices and provisions GPU hosts per task automatically. What follows is the reasoning the project was built on — and why the unit on the price list is not

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Qwen3.8 FP8: does the cheap card really save?

Qwen3.8: is FP8 worth it under transformers?

Most people who quit machine learning never got to it

The Messy Real World, or Why Probability Decides What You Pay

There are two ways to rent a GPU. I think there's a third.

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Qwen3.8 FP8: does the cheap card really save?

Qwen3.8: is FP8 worth it under transformers?

Most people who quit machine learning never got to it

The Messy Real World, or Why Probability Decides What You Pay

There are two ways to rent a GPU. I think there's a third.