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 has been awhile since I’ve done much front end development (I’m the guy who thinks vi is peak UI, so it makes sense that people are reluctant to put me in charge of their product’s user experience), so I thought I’d dust off my skills and throw together a […]
We’ve all done it. And we’ve almost all regretted doing it. So its time to talk about an uncomfortable subject for many. Copying and pasting code. The temptation is constantly there. You see some code here that works (or at least appears to work). You obviously don’t want to reinvent […]
Rich Hickey and the Clojure/core team just announced (ok, they announced it last week, but I was on vacation then, so I actually have an excuse to be blogging late) a new project, ClojureScript, a Clojure to JavaScript compiler. With Clojure being a great language to develop and JavaScript being […]