Archon Fung

@Arfung

Director @HarvardAsh. Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship, Harvard Kennedy School. I study participatory democracy. @PoliticsProf@newsie.social

Boston archonfung.net Joined March 2009

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Archon Fung @Arfung Oct 19

Is it good for democracy for election officials to be elected? Most of them in the US are, unlike most other countries. @stephen_richer and I talk with political scientist Joshua Ferrer on Terms of Engagement tomorrow (Tuesday) at 12.15pm ET.

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www.youtube.com Terms of Engagement Hosted by Archon Fung and Stephen Richer, Terms of Engagement is a live conversation about the latest developments in American politics. Blending perspective...

Archon Fung @Arfung Oct 12

In the US, 65% of citizens voted in 2024. In Australia, where voting has been compulsory for a century, 2025 turnout was 90.7%. On the next Terms of Engagement (Tuesday, 12:15ET), Miles Rapoport joins us to talk about mandatory voting for America.

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www.youtube.com Terms of Engagement Hosted by Archon Fung and Stephen Richer, Terms of Engagement is a live conversation about the latest developments in American politics. Blending perspective...

Archon Fung @Arfung Apr 16

@lmstudio thanks for releasing the gemma-4 mlx models. Great on apple silicon. I think there is a problem with the 31b models you released. They take up too much space. "gemma-4-31B-MLX-4bit" is 28.85gig, whereas the mlx-community version of the same is 18.44gig.

Archon Fung @Arfung Apr 12

@astoundconnects lots of outages in #Boston and nearby towns. Any idea when our internet is coming back?

Archon Fung @Arfung Dec 15, 2025

@LocallyAIApp I just updated to the version of LocallyAI that you released today. Now, the app gets stuck when trying to load some of the larger models (Gemma QAT 12B in particular), but runs fine with the slightly smaller ones (8B models). I’m on iPadPro m5, 2tB.