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  • GPT-Systems: Moving Over to  AIDC-AI/Ovis2-1B  OCR

    GPT-Systems: Moving Over to  AIDC-AI/Ovis2-1B  OCR

    As part of my lunch time research for the day, on LLMs, I actually saw a Reddit comment mention a small size LLM that does OCR in a speedy manner, for me to try out: AIDC-AI/Ovis2-1B. I only had a single small delay today. I…

  • TimeSpent: Yearly “Extra Habit” Tracker App

    TimeSpent: Yearly “Extra Habit” Tracker App

    I’ve spent as much time as I can organising my own personal use of the 2-Hour Rule. It started in a paper notepad, as a manual tracking of time spent. As you could have guessed, it became boring to use pen and paper for my…

  • The Best Response: Let Them!

    The Best Response: Let Them!

    I’m not a firm believer in new year’s resolutions, mostly due to my forgetful tendencies. Never mind the fact that I consider waiting for the next new year to do something tremendous is taking the lazy approach to never start whatever’s needed. I rather side…

  • Active e-Fitness: Hyper – Entering Closed Beta

    Active e-Fitness: Hyper – Entering Closed Beta

    As part of the changes since the start of December, I’ve realised I should just kick my own backside. Over the years I’ve made several exercise apps for myself, and it hasn’t gotten to the point where I can release it for others to use…

  • Local LLMs: Deepseek R1 8b in VSCode

    Local LLMs: Deepseek R1 8b in VSCode

    As an experiment for this week, this morning I decided I should get a model of Deepseek R1 running on my local dev machine. I went on a whim, went slow step-by-step through what I felt like implementing, only around 7 hours in speedy research…

  • The 2-Hour Rule

    The 2-Hour Rule

    As it turned out this year, I managed to work out a few important adjustments in my day-to-day life that are already showing tremendous results. I felt like after the difficulties, I could just make this next year into a better experience for myself. It…

  • 2024s Review

    This year, after the troubles that where unexpected at the end of the last, I needed to rethink what I will be doing. As I shared in the 2023 Review, after the main detrimental incident, it’s been tough to get things back on track. With…

  • 2024, Dec 27: Dinokeng Game Reserve Visit

    2024, Dec 27: Dinokeng Game Reserve Visit

    To end the year, it was a smart idea to spend time with family and enjoy the nature nearby. My camera struggled a touch on the lighting with the massive amounts of patchy cloud cover, but Photolemur 3 did wonders! It’s always wonderful to go…

  • 2024, Dec 17: Crazy Singles Hikes

    2024, Dec 17: Crazy Singles Hikes

    I decided, after my 16 hikes in the first half (odd) of the year, I needed another hike. Yes, despite the heat wave. So, ending the year at 17 hikes, the Crazy Singles Hiking Group (Gauteng) had a trip to the Dome Pools MCSA hiking…