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Running Llama 32 Vision and Phi-35 Vision on a Mac with mistralrs

My podcast with Brian Greene Yes, he’s the guy from The Elegant Universe book and TV series. Our conversation is 1 hour 40 minutes; as usual I strongly recommend listening at 2x speed. The topics, chosen by Brian, include quantum computing (algorithms, hardware, error-correction … the works), my childhood, the interpretation of quantum mechanics, the

Experimenting with audio input and output for the OpenAI Chat Completion API

Calculating the norm of a complex number

Qualcomm cancels Snapdragon Dev Kit refunds all orders Qualcomm cancels Snapdragon Dev Kit, refunds all orders This afternoon I received the following email from Arrow, regarding the Snapdragon Developer Kit for Windows: Dear Valued Customer, Please see this important message from Qualcomm:

Video scraping extracting JSON data from a 35 second screen capture for less than 110th of a cent

ChatGPT will happily write you a thinly disguised horoscope

My Nutty Extremist Beliefs In nearly twenty years of blogging, I’ve unfortunately felt more and more isolated and embattled. It now feels like anything I post earns severe blowback, from ridicule on Twitter, to pseudonymous comment trolls, to scary and aggressive email bullying campaigns. Reflecting on this, though, I came to see that such

Shrink Your Symbol Fonts Create a Custom Font Subset with Just the Glyphs You Need Imagine you’re sprucing up your website. You want crisp, scalable icons for RSS, Twitter, Instagram, and/or GitHub. You are no designer and you don’t want to mess around creating SVGs, so you opt for a symbol font - an excellent

Why make software If you want to leave a lasting legacy—some durable remnant of your brief existence that will ripple forth into the future and leave an imprint on hearts and minds of future generations—you might be wise to dedicate your life to pursuits other than the creation of software. Writing, painting, architecture,