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What Siri should be = Inflection Pi

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I predicted a while back, maybe a year ago that the whole chatGPT LLM ( Large Language Model ) "thing" will hit it's peak around Aug '23/Sept '23 and then decline towards Dec '23/Jan '24 where people will start looking at non-pay / non-monetised usage of LLMs. I've also been a keen advocate of moving the usage / runtimes OFF of "other people's servers", ie. what you call " Cloud ", because they are incentivised to implement vendor lock-in in subtle ways such as getting you to use a service that only they offer, or store your core data in a datastore that you cannot export / lift&shift elsewhere without it costing more than it is worth, therefore stealth lock-in. I cannot really complain, businesses are in the business of business, therefore, they are driven by financial transactions and you, as the customer ( still makes me chuckle that the "IT people" call customers "end users", just like drug dealers r

Snow, a little rant about society/AI and using a GPS, BDS, GLONASS, GALILEO and QZSS positioning device

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Well, the sun is out, the frost is melting, it actually snowed yesterday, it didn't snow anywhere else in the UK ( that I'm aware of ), but it did snow a LOT in California ( and still is )  Here's a photo of my garden from yesterday morning, I was very surprised as it meant I couldn't really continue with the landscape waterfall remodelling that I'd started the previous day: With such loveliness that Spring is coming and Winter is just making an attempt to show it is still a force to be reckoned with, I was pondering on how I spend my last couple of days of "freedom", ie. the as-before-mentioned-time-off.  I'll document below the tech. toys that I decided to setup & get working ready for next months "time off" where I can pull a lot of this technology together to actually start to "make something". Oh and then I noticed this headline in my fav. IT news website:  IBM announces European layoffs and for some uncontrollable reason,

In other news.... the Genie is out

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Google has literally let the genie out of the bottle: https://sites.google.com/view/genie-2024 " We introduce Genie, the first generative interactive environment trained in an unsupervised manner from unlabelled Internet videos. The model can be prompted to generate an endless variety of action-controllable virtual worlds described through text, synthetic images, photographs, and even sketches. At 11B parameters, Genie can be considered a foundation world model. It is comprised of a spatiotemporal video tokenizer, an autoregressive dynamics model, and a simple and scalable latent action model.  Genie enables users to act in the generated environments on a frame-by-frame basis despite training without any ground-truth action labels or other domain-specific requirements typically found in the world model literature. Further the resulting learned latent action space facilitates training agents to imitate behaviors from unseen videos, opening the path for training generalist agents of

FlightAware - PiAware - SkyAware

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I'm about to have ( yet another ) week off... I'm allowed, I literally was recorded as being utilised 100.1% last year, that's AFTER deductions of holiday days, etc...etc... ( most people struggle to get 50-60% ) and well, then being treated like sh!t by my employer by not recognising my efforts, but happy to take their rewards ( [no surprise] I pi$$ed off a higher up a few years back & they just won't let their d!ck swinging ego, move on... ho! hum! ), so, I've now got to take off one week per month, until April otherwise I lose the holiday days.  Fine by me.  But, oh, what to do? Well.....you may recall that a while back, maybe mid-last year, I wrote an ARTICLE HERE about using an SDR (Software Defined Radio) USB dongle for listening to the radio waves around us... and then I purchased a Flightaware USB stick and antenna.  I had a little play around with it.  I proved it could capture commercial flight data in a 100-or so mile radius from the antenna, save tha

(Non) Standard Vanguard

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I'm not just an IT / Computer / Robot / Electronics geek.... did you also know that I'm also a mechanical engineer too? Yeah, that's right.  I think.  I have a brain.  It works, sometimes & when it does.... it does. Yesterday, I just picked up my kustom vanguard car from Valley Gas (yes, I broke it back in November and I needed them to fix it as it was a specialist task). I aim to drive this now as my DAILY DRIVER to / from work, cruising along the Wiltshire & Dorset country lanes listening to cool rock music. The car, like me, was built to be unique - it literally is one-of-a-kind.  enjoy:  You can follow the car going to hot-rod, custom & normal car shows at its own instagram page: @kustomvanguard What can I say? I was / am / are the true Iron man, before the MCU movies appeared :-) 

Local, offline LLMs on CPU (&GPU if you're rich), laptops, RPis and potentially phones

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On a previous post HERE I described my first foray into using ollama as an LLM Engine on a Raspberry Pi 5 device. This time, I'm going to describe how to install / use that ollama Engine with a front-end UI.   Show options where you could use docker containers to run the components Show how to use native installation onto a laptop (VM Ubuntu) as it's just simpler Then, how to modify that UI code, rebuild it & see the changes. "Why Tony? Why?" Y'know, if you have to ask "Why?" then you don't understand.  Well, the reason being, I did some work about 1-year ago in relation to LLMs, very cutting-edge, very new & never done before, pretty ground breaking stuff.  However, it was too far advanced that no-one really understood it, quite a lot still don't.  Now, 1-year later, people are saying, "wow!amazing" about things that are loosely similar to what I did a year ago... sigh... the burden of being a geek.  So, this time, I'm jus