Installing an outdoor GPS antenna for more accurate time Installing an outdoor GPS antenna for more accurate time I’ve been deep into time and timing lately (more shenanigans coming tomorrow), but today I posted a video covering the install of a PCTEL GPS/GNSS antenna at my studio. I put

Building software on top of Large Language Models

Teaching coding with JavaScript and p5js

Trying out llamacpps new vision support

Radxa Orion O6 brings Arm to the midrange PC Radxa Orion O6 brings Arm to the midrange PC …with caveats. Jeff Geerling May 9, 2025

Cracking the Top Fifty I’ve now been blogging for nearly twenty years—through five presidential administrations, my own moves from Waterloo to MIT to UT Austin, my work on algebrization and BosonSampling and BQP vs. PH and quantum money and shadow tomography, the publication of Quantum Computing Since Democritus, my courtship and marriage and the

Saying hi to Microsofts Phi-4-reasoning

Opposing SB37 Yesterday, the Texas State Legislature heard public comments about SB37, a bill that would give a state board direct oversight over course content and faculty hiring at public universities, perhaps inspired by Trump’s national crackdown on higher education. (See here or here for coverage.) So, encouraged by a friend in

4x faster network file sync with rclone vs rsync 4x faster network file sync with rclone (vs rsync) For the past couple years, I have transported my ‘working set’ of video and project data to and from work on an external Thunderbolt NVMe SSD. But it’s always been slow

Feed a video to a vision LLM as a sequence of JPEG frames on the CLI also LLM 025