Dev, Design, AI, and Fun
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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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2024, May 19: Crazy Singles Hikes
This last weekend we went to Castle Gorge, just inside the North West from Gauteng. It’s a wonderful hiking trail, I recommend if you enjoy hiking that you at least organise with your group to go there. This time I took a slightly different approach…
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2024, May 11: Crazy Singles Hikes
This weekend’s hike was at the De Wildt Cheetah Lodge. Not with the memory of when it was, I pitched up at the De Wildt 4×4 Nature Park. I don’t own a 4×4. It’s only 5 to 6km further along the road, so we were…
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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…
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RapidMono: An Assistant For MonoGame GameDev
While my original project, RapidXNA – built 11 and a half years ago, used to be available to the public, I decided to hide it as XNA fell to the ground. I felt this year I wanted to be more active with my game development…
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2024, Apr 27: Crazy Singles Hikes
In yet another awesome start to a weekend, this time we had an adventure at the B’sorah hiking trails. We ended up going on their 12km route, we saw when we finished they hike, you can see where that goes on their public map. It…
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2024, Apr 20: Crazy Singles Hikes
This weekend started with an awesome adventure, the Crazy Singles Hiking Group, took the time to go enjoy the Rustig Hiking Trails. We all booked for the 9km, 13km, or 15km, for the day, and planned to be careful and stick to the 9km. There…
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Experiment: Train Own LLM, Step 1
While I’ve been experimenting with the LLMs through Hugging Face, I didn’t have a reason to start my own models. Everything changes regularly, so I haven’t yet found what fits my ideas well enough. That being said, I still haven’t decided what I will be…
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2024, Mar 30: Crazy Singles Hikes
Another expedition with the amazing Crazy Singles Hiking Group, a place for hikers that are single to group together to go for amazing diverse hikes around Gauteng, South Africa. For the sunset at Harties River Hiking Trail! You can see more photos from this trailer,…