Musings on Machine Learning...
Introduction AI is vacuuming up investment dollars like never before. There are thousands of AI companies vying for attention. For instance, this list of the top 100 AI companies in Canada. Focus tends to concentrate on the top four US companies of Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta and xAI. However, several Chinese companies including Moonshot.ai, Z.ai and Alibaba have moved ahead […]
Introduction I’ve blogged recently on running AI models locally using open-source product such as LM Studio or ComfyUI. Many AI models are released as open-source, and anyone can run these as much as they like for free. Meanwhile, several US based companies have invested trillions of dollars developing AI models that only run in the cloud and are […]
First Look at LM Studio Bionic Introduction Agentic AI is the new in thing, and we see it built into Microsoft Office and Visual Studio via Microsoft’s Co-pilot feature. These allow AIs to edit your documents directly without having to copy/paste from a browser ChatGPT session. The problem with these is they run in the […]
Introduction A couple of weeks ago, I talked about LM Studio that lets you run AI models like ChatGPT locally on your laptop. LM Studio is great for text-based AI models but doesn’t support image or video related models out of the box. There are ways to integrate other components to work, but this is quite technical. […]
Introduction AI dominates the news both good and bad. The only reason the US economy hasn’t completely collapsed under Trump is due to the ongoing AI investment frenzy. There is a huge building boom of data centers to train and run AI models. There is a huge frenzy of investment capital funnelling into AI related […]
Introduction There is a lot of opposition to tech companies building data centers in various communities around the world. The objections have to do with the data centers taking all the water and electricity in an area, leaving nothing for the local residents. Then there is the contribution to global warming from the data centers, […]
Introduction The C string library is compact, fast and efficient. However, if not used correctly and carefully, it leads to buffer overrun errors which either cause programs to crash or worse allow arbitrary code to execute. Hackers have found errors in the use of C string functions to be a goldmine in security weaknesses to […]
Introduction ARM is best known for providing the CPU chips used in smart phones and tablets. Its CPUs are power efficient allowing longer battery life while still providing a lot of processing power. ARM has expanded beyond this market, first into the low power microcontroller market and then more recently into the higher end namely […]
Introduction The Virtual OS Museum is literally a museum of 570 distinct operating systems. Check out their website for screen grabs and a list of everything included. You can’t physically visit this museum, but if you have enough disk space you can download and explore it on your personal computer. The full edition is a 130Gig zip […]
Introduction Apple has changed CPU architectures for their desktop and laptop computers several times. The original Apple II’s used the 8-bit MOS 6502. This CPU never transitioned properly to 16-bit and certainly not 32-bit, so Apple chose the Motorola 68000 series of CPUs for the original Macs. Then when Motorola started fall behind in the CPU race, Apple […]