Let me tell you a tale – a tale of magic and power. Ok, maybe there isn’t any real magic to this other than the magic described by Arthur Clarke in this quote: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” My reference to power is in the sense of what you as a third… Continue reading a tale of complexity
Category: Software
chatGPT code hallucinations
By this point, many people understand the concept of an AI “hallucination”. This is the term that has come to describe incorrect information stated as facts in the output of a chatGPT prompt. For example, if you ask “Who is Brian Toone?” to chatGPT, you get the response below which has some correct information, but… Continue reading chatGPT code hallucinations
Llama, Llama! (Red Pajama)
This was a fun book we used to read to our kids … but in other exciting news, Meta approved my research request for access to the LLaMA pre-trained large language model. 4/18 5:27pm. I started using the llama download script to download all the data, but the download.sh script doesn’t work by default on… Continue reading Llama, Llama! (Red Pajama)
Win11 officeGPT
Through my efforts to install the Stanford Alpaca system on my M1 mac studio that I dubbed homeGPT, I discovered that some of the required packages are configured to only use CUDA … in other words I need an NVIDIA graphics card. One of my research computers from school is a Windows 11 system with… Continue reading Win11 officeGPT
HomeGPT, part 1 – PyTorch
3/21 6:48AM. The genie truly is out of the bottle. I am in the process of installing LLaMA on my home mac studio. Here’s the play-by-play. LLaMA is based on PyTorch, so in this part, I install and activate the latest version of pytorch optimized for my M1 Ultra. Some notes … pyenv vs virtualenv… Continue reading HomeGPT, part 1 – PyTorch
iMac woes
Early in the summer I found my late 2014 iMac had restarted itself once or twice on its own with “Unexpected Shutdown” messages. One time, it failed to reboot and took me to the Recovery screen with Disk Utility as an option. I ended up “checking” the drives and it reported no errors and so… Continue reading iMac woes
Data integrity
There are two kinds of data integrity: there’s the data storage kind where you are concerned that data isn’t accidentally (or maliciously) modified or deleted once it is in the system. This is a problem I am going to tackle in the next few days replacing a failing SSD. But there’s also a second kind… Continue reading Data integrity
Server-Sent Events
One of the HTML5 features introduced that I have not needed until now is something called “server-sent events“. It’s a strange name which I think is derived from the HTTP content-type text/event-stream which must be set on the server side script generating the events. This isn’t quite the same as web push notifications which are… Continue reading Server-Sent Events
Linux in the classroom
The simple goal was to use Microsoft Azure services to setup a traditional SQL Database (SQL Server) running in the Azure cloud. Students had $100 credit towards the services. The problem we ran into is that by using all the default settings, you end up with $380/month system that was going to blow through the… Continue reading Linux in the classroom
Developing on production?
Let me preface this post by saying this is a bad idea for most true production systems, particularly ones with many hundreds, thousands, or hundreds of thousands of users. But for quiet, independently developed web apps with only a handful of users, I believe this is a viable strategy given the caveats in bold a… Continue reading Developing on production?