# support vector machine (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover support vector machine. Page: Feed: --- ## [Setting up Hermes Agent in Docker on macOS](https://mark-watson.blogspot.com/2026/04/setting-up-hermes-agent-in-docker-on.html) _2026-04-18 · Mark Watson, author and consultant · Mark Watson's artificial intelligence and Lisp hacking blog_ These are my notes: Setup # Install Docker and the Colima container runtime brew install docker colima # Start the runtime colima start (Note, I had to run: colima stop -f ; colima delete — then run Colima start again) # create docker image: docker run -d \\\\n -v "$(pwd):/workspace" \\\\n -v ollama\_data:/root/.ollama \\\\n -p 11434:11434 \\\\n --name ollama-dev \\\\n ollama/ollama:0.21.0\\n docker exec -it… ## [My AI Tool Stack (for this week 😀)](https://mark-watson.blogspot.com/2026/04/my-ai-tool-stack-for-this-week.html) _2026-04-17 · Mark Watson, author and consultant · Mark Watson's artificial intelligence and Lisp hacking blog_ I try to only change my default tool stack slowly. Stability saves time at the cost of missing out on the fun of continually trying new things. To get stuff done, and since I am retired this is mostly writing, creating new example programs for my books, and updating older books, I rely on: Proton's Lumo private AI Chat: almost all web searching and casual AI Chat. Google's Gemini: research.… ## [Supporting Goals of Free Software Foundation while using Apple hardware](https://mark-watson.blogspot.com/2025/11/supporting-goals-of-free-software.html) _2025-11-14 · Mark Watson, author and consultant · Mark Watson's artificial intelligence and Lisp hacking blog_ I just rejoined the FSF ( https://www.fsf.org/ ) recently after almost ten years of not being a member. For decades I relied on Linux for work and writing and being a member of the FSF made sense. However when I decided to simplify my life and use a MacBook, an iPhone, and an iPad I let my FSF membership drop. I am enjoying being a member again. I am not recommending that anyone adopt my setup,… ## [Notes on effectively using AI](https://mark-watson.blogspot.com/2025/08/notes-on-effectively-using-ai.html) _2025-08-30 · Mark Watson, author and consultant · Mark Watson's artificial intelligence and Lisp hacking blog_ I cover the use of LLMs in several of the books I have written . This blog post is meant to be common general purpose advice for effectively using AI using four techniques: Use one-shot or few-shot prompting: show the AI what you want with examples. Chain of thought reasoning: LLMs are auto-regressive models so the tokens generated "become part of the prompt," that is, without asking for chain of… ## [Tool calling with Moonshot's Kimi K2 mode](https://mark-watson.blogspot.com/2025/07/tool-calling-with-moonshots-kimi-k2-mode.html) _2025-07-16 · Mark Watson, author and consultant · Mark Watson's artificial intelligence and Lisp hacking blog_ Moonshot's new Kimi 2 model is extremely inexpensive to use. Moonshot AI (月之暗面) is a prominent Chinese artificial intelligence startup focused on developing large language models with the long-term goal of achieving Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). The company gained significant recognition for its Kimi chatbot, which pioneered an exceptionally large context window capable of processing up… ## [Google Gemini Batch Mode API with a 50% cost reduction: a game changer?](https://mark-watson.blogspot.com/2025/07/google-gemini-batch-mode-api-with-50.html) _2025-07-07 · Mark Watson, author and consultant · Mark Watson's artificial intelligence and Lisp hacking blog_ I noticed on X this morning that Google dropped a new batch API with a 50% price cut. I use gemini-2.5-flash for speed and low cost and being able to batch large numbers of requests in a JSONL file (JSON where each line is a single legal JSON expression) seems like a big deal to me. Gemini Batch API Docs I have been a little negative on Hacker News and X recently about the energy costs vs. value… ## [So much fun: recreating 1970s text adventure games using LLMs, but better](https://mark-watson.blogspot.com/2025/07/so-much-fun-recreating-1970s-text.html) _2025-07-05 · Mark Watson, author and consultant · Mark Watson's artificial intelligence and Lisp hacking blog_ In the late 1970s, I worked long hours on a text based adventure game called land of the dwarf for the Apple II computer. My game was written in Apple Basic and I gave it away for free. I wrote it using a huge sheet of paper, drawing a transition network diagram with bubbles, locations and action codes for things that could be done and arcs between the bubbles being the ability to move from one… ## [AI dominance: US vs. China and the rest or the world](https://mark-watson.blogspot.com/2025/02/ai-dominance-us-vs-china-and-rest-or.html) _2025-02-06 · Mark Watson, author and consultant · Mark Watson's artificial intelligence and Lisp hacking blog_ I would like the USA to not lose the ‘AI race’ but I don’t want other countries to lose either. Ensuring continued US leadership in AI without constraining global progress necessitates a dual-pronged strategy that couples strategic national R&D investments with adherence to open international standards. On the technical front, integrating edge computing, specialized AI silicon, and advanced… ## [AI update: The new Deepseek-R1 reasoning language model, Bytedance's Trae IDE, and my new book](https://mark-watson.blogspot.com/2025/01/ai-update-new-deepseek-r1-reasoning.html) _2025-01-21 · Mark Watson, author and consultant · Mark Watson's artificial intelligence and Lisp hacking blog_ I spent a few days experimenting with Cursor last week. Bytedance's Trae IDE is very similar and is currently free to use with Claude Sonnet 3.5 and GPT-4o: https://www.trae.ai/home I would like to use Trae with my own API accounts but currently Bytedance is paying for LLM costs. I have been experimenting with the qwen2.5 and qwen2.5-coder models that easily run on my M2Pro 32G Mac. For reasoning… ## [Sapiens at the Crossroads of the Intelligence Age](https://shubham.chaudhary.xyz/blog/ai/sapiens-intelligence-age) _2024-09-24 · Develop Freedom_ Humanity has always been shaped by the tools we create . From fire and the wheel to agriculture and steam engines, each technological leap has redefined what it means to be human. These advancements didn’t just make life easier; they fundamentally reshaped societies, economies, and power structures. As we enter the Intelligence Age , where artificial intelligence becomes an omnipresent resource ,… ## [Ship software peacefully (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/duF15oEQkdso) _2024-09-24 · **Sponsored**_ Deploy apps from your repo with auto-config, instant previews, scaling, and monitoring. ## [I am moving back to the Google platform, less excited by what Apple is offering](https://mark-watson.blogspot.com/2024/09/i-am-moving-back-to-google-platform.html) _2024-09-19 · Mark Watson, author and consultant · Mark Watson's artificial intelligence and Lisp hacking blog_ I have been been playing with the Apple Intelligence beta’s in iPadOS and macOS and while I like the direction Apple is heading I am getting more use from Google’s Gemini, both for general analysis of very large input contexts, as well as effective integration my content in Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Docs. While I find the latest Pixel phone to be compelling, I will stick with Apple… ## [Getting closer to AGI? Google's NoteBookLM and Replit's AI Coding Agent](https://mark-watson.blogspot.com/2024/09/getting-close-to-agi-googles-notebooklm.html) _2024-09-18 · Mark Watson, author and consultant · Mark Watson's artificial intelligence and Lisp hacking blog_ Putting "closer to AGI?" in a blog title might border on being clickbait, but I will argue that it is not! I have mostly earned my living in the field of AI since 1982 and I argue that the existence of better AI driven products and the accelerating rate of progress in research, that we are raising the bar on what we consider AGI to be. I have had my mind blown twice in the last week: Today I took… ## [New OpenAI gpt-o1-preview and gpt-o1-mini and one week experience with Replit.com AI Coding Agent](https://mark-watson.blogspot.com/2024/09/new-openai-gpt-o1-preview-and-gpt-o1.html) _2024-09-13 · Mark Watson, author and consultant · Mark Watson's artificial intelligence and Lisp hacking blog_ I have only spent a short while experimenting with the ne gtp-o1 models: so far very impressive for science, math, and instruction following. You need a ChatGPT Plus account to try it, or you can perform rate limited queries for half the monthly cost using Abacus AI The thing I am most impressed with (this week!) is the Replit.co AI coding agent that after briefly trying it I pre-paid for a one… ## [Topics: Recipe: Mark’s African Stew, and converting my Clojure CookingSpace web site to JavaScript](https://mark-watson.blogspot.com/2024/09/topics-recipe-marks-african-stew-and.html) _2024-09-12 · Mark Watson, author and consultant · Mark Watson's artificial intelligence and Lisp hacking blog_ I wanted to convert my server side web site CookingSpace.com to mostly client side JavaScript. I used the Replit.com AI coding agent to do this, and while this is a subject for another blog article, I showed the Replit coding AI a snippet of my JSON recipes and nutrients file, and described in a few paragraphs the functionality of the new web site. I want to share a recipe that I created: Mark’s… ## [Code and notes from my recent talk: Exploring the Future of AI: Introduction to using LLMs using Python](https://mark-watson.blogspot.com/2024/09/code-and-notes-from-my-recent-talk.html) _2024-09-12 · Mark Watson, author and consultant · Mark Watson's artificial intelligence and Lisp hacking blog_ Topics: Large context prompts with LLMs vs. RAGs using embeddings vector stores. How to avoid LLM hallucination. 3 code demos. started an informal code demo and group conversation Meetup group (link) and today I gave a fifteen minute code demo followed by a conversation with the attendees. Here is a GitHub repo with the code examples: https://github.com/mark-watson/talk2\_LLM\_Python\_intro Here are…