Progress

It's AI week and I'm finding out how to do things with AI. Even though it's less intense than I had originally planned, it's still quite good. I found out

• how to run Llama locally, on Linux or Windows, with or without GPU
• how to train nanoGPT from scratch, on a CPU
• about privateGPT, that I need to investigate further
• that my GPU memory does not allow fine-tuning on my machine.

I'll write some more about that in the future.

Articles

• Terry Pratchett and the Maggi Soup Adverts -- Stuffed Crocodile
• Troy Hunt: Beg Bounties
• Reasons to prefer blake3 over sha256
• Mastodon Is Easy and Fun Except When It Isn’t - Erin Kissane's small internet website
• Loro Now Open Source: Reimagine State Management with CRDTs – Loro
• A truly incredible fact about the number 37 -- Chris Grossack's Blog
• Super Fast LCM-LoRA on SD1.5 - a Hugging Face Space by latent-consistency
• Is the Reversal Curse Real? – @AndrewMayne
• Exploring GPTs: ChatGPT in a trench coat?
• Signal >> Blog >> Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive
• Navigational Instruments in Firefox -- blarg
• CQK Is The First Unused TLA · Gwern.net
• b-trees in factorio - rants by razberry: It's about implementing b-trees in a Factorio game, not about how b-trees are used in Factorio.

Libraries, programming, etc

• GitHub - DeadlyRedCube/Cathode-Retro: A collection of shaders to emulate the display of an NTSC signal through a CRT TV
• Gradio - Quickstart: "create an interactive app that allows your users or colleagues to try out the demo in their browsers". Heard a lot about it, not sure how to use it, though. Embedding something like this in a Django app might be nice, too.

Books

Games

• Walkabout Minigolf
• Raft with the crew. It's kind-of a continuation of Sea of Thieves. It is quite relaxing, even though there is a bit of a competitive co-op going on.

Backlog

• Mini Golf Worlds VR (Steam started recommending VR minigolf games to me, no idea why)
• Earthlock (free from EGS)
• Surviving the Aftermath (free from EGS)

Recipes

• Wölkchen
• Marmorplätzchen
• Schokoladenplätzchen

Other media

• For 2 Weeks, Switzerland Has A Rail Replacement Helicopter - YouTube
• 1968: BEHIND THE SCENES in BBC STUDIO ONE -- Blue Peter -- Classic Children's TV -- BBC Archive - YouTube
• CIRCUIT: An electrician gets into a situation.. - YouTube
• Hacking a 25 Year Old Game To Make It Work - YouTube
• How to Align Character Mesh to the Floor in Unreal Engine - YouTube
• Something weird happens when you keep squeezing - YouTube
• Jeff Bezos Rowing Boat - YouTube: I... don't know why I watched this. I guess it's a great art piece?