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I’ve written before about building agents and calling tools directly , but up till now I’ve largely avoided MCPs. Now, I’ve started a new job, and I needed to better understand MCP servers. I’ve read the spec , but I felt like there was a disconnect between what has actually become popular. So, as I often approach these types of problems, I decided to build my own MCP…
Previously , I had just cancelled my Claude Pro subscription, successfully installed Aider , configured it to point to my local model of choice ( Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 ), and interrogated it about my horse racing datafile parsing project. After briefly familiarizing itself with the project, it was confident in it’s ability to move forward with development. My plan was to keep going in…
🎂 Birthday present to myself, I signed up for a Claude Pro plan, ready to learn. Claude Code I decided to start with a new project, but stick to a domain I’m very familiar with, horse racing past performance data files. I provided two files: comma-delimited-single-file-format.txt ( description of CSV columns ) AQU0207.DRF ( sample file ) In addition I decided to draft a file called…
President Donald J. Trump Protects the American Flag from Desecration Let’s take a page out of his own playbook, and explore the power of an image. Let’s desecrate the most sacred and cherished symbols of the United States of America with generative AI. I wanted to start with scene offering no ambiguity. Let no one wonder which flag we’re burning today. Then I tried to think of…
[ NOTE : This post is an update to my previous post, Local LLM Agents - Do they work? ] In the last two days I kept coming across references to a new model, Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 . Relevant to our interests, it claims: Significant improvements in general capabilities, including instruction following, logical reasoning, text comprehension, mathematics, science, coding and tool usage. This…
A few month’s back I really enjoyed reading Thorsten Ball’s How to Build an Agent . At the time I came across it, I had been trying to understand how tool calling works in Ollama . His wink if you want me to use this tool explanation clicked. But I’m not interested in depending on a private model hosted by someone else. So, I set out to follow along with Thorsten’s…
My recenty journey into local ML continues, but I only have one interesting post to share: Mapping the semantic void: Strange goings-on in GPT embedding spaces . I’m not really into the math enough to say if this is profound or nothing at all, but I found the inquiry thought provoking. Let’s walk in a different direction for the rest of this post… I recently signed up for Kagi…
I recently came to learn of the Fire Chicken Webring , a local link in the the modern webring . The year is 1996. 1996? I actually had a website in this era, The Sod House . No webring, but very much an attempt at a helpful collection of links. The. Sod. House? futuristic drawing, icelandic turf house, modest, dilapidated, weathered, old, damaged, lonely traveler looking at house prompt:…
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