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A few days ago I mentioned playing around with local AI models, despite having low strength hardware for the task. Yesterday I was trying our some new models - tinyllama and smollm2 - and I asked each model the same question to compare...
I love that people are writing on Substack, because it is almost a return to what blogging originally was: openly sharing connected and linked learning and insight with the world. A couple of things frustrate me about Substack though and...
I had an old Kindle sitting in a drawer for years. It still charges, the battery seems to work, and the screen is perfectly readable in daylight. Throwing it away felt wrong and at the same time I kept opening Proxmox or Uptime Kuma in a...
Bridgy Fed is roughly 20k lines of code. If you add in all the other parts of the stack that we own – granary, arroba, lexrpc, etc – it’s 51kloc total. (Excluding tests; those add another 81kloc.) I’m not really proud of this, or...
Three and a half millennia ago, the people of the Bronze Age Minoan civilization revered the double-headed ax, which is conventionally known today as a labrys (plural form: labryes), as a religious symbol associated with powerful...
I've been practicing photography seriously for about as long as it takes to get a fine art degree. Looking back, I can see real growth in how I approach editing. These two versions of the same photo illustrate the shift: In the original...
DC has posted several preview pages from next week’s issue of Absolute Flash, and you can see them at Adventures In Poor Taste. The preview features Wally and Linda back at the Mission and recovering after the events of last issue…but...
ThanKs to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for Their Sponsorship of This Post, via The Magic of Patreon. ***Who remembers Glenn Medeiros?I certainly do.And July 1988 was doing its best to make sure it stayed that way, as he spent almost...
Having both very much enjoyed the dam at Thompson Falls more than I thought we would - and having already completed two stages of the Montana Backcountry Discovery Route over the course of the day - we had no aspirations to make it deep...
Just to the right of the last set of bookshelves we discussed is a stack of books that I probably would have put on one of its shelves, if only there was room to do so. So instead, they are just kind of piled up alongside it, waiting for...
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Quick update. We celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary last week, first with one night of camping and then a planned night in Frankenmuth, Michigan. We survived the campout ok, but on our anniversary night I accidentally shaved off a...
Simon Goland describes an experience of travel that seems very common these days: When my parents were finally able to travel and start seeing the world, their travel looked like checking off boxes of countries, places, cities, and...
Jason Arday, the disgraced academic who committed suicide last week after he was exposed as a total fraud, did not die in vain. The case of Jason Arday has not only exposed the intellectual rot in the field of sociology; it has also...
I am a big believer in volunteering and charity work. It opens up opportunities and a good training ground to develop new skills. In fact, I have made friends who are sincere with a good heart. Through volunteering, the experience...