Category: Programming
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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…
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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…
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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…
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GitHub Copilot: First Experience
Today’s goal is simple; share the experience, and my personal reviews, of how the Copilot Workspace is, so far. Please note, this is under active development and can change a ton still, as time goes by. You can take a look at the progress on…
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2024/11/14 – GitHub Constellation 24
It was wonderful to get to see my colleagues from years ago, from my work at Microsoft, again. Similarly, to catch up with my friends from Geekulcha, it’s always great to attend one of their hackathons. I’ve been meaning to post this since Friday the…
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GPT Systems: Train GPT 2 – Godot 4.3 Experimental
Recently I’ve pressed the ‘reset button‘ in my plans for my future. I’ve seen, and heard, a ton of interesting things which has led to me needing this recent break. Without dwelling on how I’ve started to defend myself, finally, I’d rather focus on the…
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Introducing GPT-systems: My LLM Experiments
As part of getting back into the right head space, I needed to decide on decent side projects to keep myself busy with. After looking, and debating, I’m moving through the edX TinyML course at a steady pace, then I picked up the humble bundle…
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Experiment: Own Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
As my next idea for LLMs use, I decided to dabble with some OCR. Converting images to text in a speedy manner. Over the weekend I spent a little time experimenting with MiniCPM-Llama3-V-2_5-int4. The idea I have is to get details from my purchase slips,…
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Llama 3: Project Management, Design, and Planning
Two weeks ago, I started with the simple LLM training post, and then meta-llama released a new improved model, meta-llama-3-8B. At 16Gb it has a pace that is alright for my minimal hardware, it only takes a few minutes to answer questions. My goal became…