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Large language models can have billions, or even trillions, of parameters. But how big do they need to be to achieve acceptable performance? To test this, I experimented with several of Google’s Gemma 3 models, all small enough to run locally on a single GPU. Specifically I used the 1 […]
Large Language Model AIs like Google’s Gemini and Open-AI’s GPT can be interesting to play around with even in a simple chatbot like Chat-GPT. But those chatbots largely waste their potential. Their understanding of natural language is impressive, but their “knowledge” is limited to what they were trained on. But […]
It’s almost Super Bowl Sunday, one of the most sacred holidays here in the United States. It’s the day of the championship game between the winners of the NFC and AFC, this year the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs. Yes, for those of you from outside of the US, […]
Don’t let the door hit you in the way out. I don’t think I will miss this year too much. But there were some good things that happened. Ok, not much, but some good music came out. Here is last year’s playlist on Qobuz and on Spotify.
There is something weird going on the Eastern United States. Lots of people along the Atlantic coast have reported seeing weird things in the sky over the past few days. If this happened in the 20th century everyone would be saying they are UFOs. Today, they are assumed to be […]
Last week I posted a retrospective on swing state polls. However, I excluded Nevada and Arizona as both states still had a significant number of votes to count. Since then, both states have gotten to 99%, so I figured I could include them. I also decided I could probably go […]
We Americans have a lot of November traditions. Thanksgiving. Black Friday. Cyber Monday. Playing Christmas music waaaaay too early. Voting. And a new one over the past few decades, complaining about polls. In case you have been living under a rock, we in the United States had an election last […]
In celebration of Halloween, let’s talk about bats. What do bats have to do with Halloween? No idea. They arent scary or anything. But I see lots of bats decorations around Halloween time so bat facts are in vogue. There are a lot of bats out there. In fact there […]
We need to talk about the 2024 presidential election. I’ve mostly tried to keep politics out of this blog. I understand I have friends and followers of many different political orientations, and I certainly don’t want to offend people. Donald Trump has always been a controversial political figure. He entered […]
It was 11 years ago today that Google killed Google Reader. The RSS reader with popular with a niche crowd, but never really expanded beyond it’s core use case. In the end it was ditched for more algorithmically driven ways to get the news such as Google News and various […]