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Research Round-up: Recent LLM blitz

tl;dr The AI Language Model world moves fast, use the Table of Contents below to quickly find quick insights for the ones that interest you: 1. DBRX 2. Command R+ 3. Command R 4. Mistral Large 5. Mixtral 8x22b 6. Llama 3 70b 7. Llama 3 8b 8. Phi-3

Analysing article failure

Dear Reader, This is more of a technical dive on blogging & reflecting. So it's not for everybody. But for those of you who are curious, join me on this analysis. I was sitting and wondering, why do some posts catch fire while others barely spark? Let'

Immersive Impressions

Gemini 1.5 : From Zero to Not-So-Hero

Introduction So, there I was waking up on a Saturday morning, checking my emails, I got my Gemini 1.5 invite, compelling me to momentarily abandon whatever I was engaged in or planning and dive right in. I won't lie I wrote it off initially, but then I

WERK Update: Pasting, persistence & deep dive

tl;dr Pasting and persistence added, Code & NextJS deep dive below. Dear reader, Brace yourselves, this isn't your typical, run-of-the-mill update. No, this is the chronicle of WERK's evolution, a testament to my relentless pursuit of perfection (Or just a working product). I've

WERK: Soft launch

Dear Reader After engaging in a two-week coding marathon, sitting in various cafes every evening, I'm somewhat thrilled—no, let's not overdo it—I'm adequately pleased to pull the curtains back on the latest release: WERK. (Yes, this consumed 100% of my time, so

Digital Diatribes

Why you should hire me

A Cover Letter You'll Never Forget Dear Potential Employer (or unsuspecting victim, depending on your perspective), I'm writing to you not because I'm desperate for a job (trust me, I'm not), but because I've been told that expressing my boundless

Cerebral Static

Trying Mixtral, Phi2 and Dolphin2.5

tl;dr Using the base Mixtral I wanted to see how effect it was as a tool to process large amounts of data. It failed due to it’s major alignment problems. Cooking it into the model at a base level is the worst. Dear Reader Brace yourselves for a

Starting my newsletter

⚠️Dear Reader, After consistently delivering a newsletter every two weeks, it’s time for a bold change. I am pausing the current newsletter to redefine and elevate the content I provide. This isn’t an end, but a new beginning. I am taking this opportunity to reimagine the newsletter to

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Starfield and the Stardust Syndrome: A Tale of Hype and Reality

Dear Reader, When I noticed Starfields recently “negative” reviews my attention was peaked. Not because I'm a sucker for drama, but because there's something oddly satisfying about digging through the dirt to find the buried truth. Now, I'm not a data analysts, but even

Merry Christmas 2023

Dear Reader, I'll cut to the chase—no fluff, no filler. This year has been nothing short of a rollercoaster, and frankly, I'm surprised I've kept up. We've stepped into the AI Era. Everywhere you look, there's some new, mind-boggling

Byte-Sized Blips

Bluesky's Big Reveal: Now Viewable for Your Prying Eyes

Dear reader—or should I say voyeur? What seems to be an early Christmas present, Bluesky's posts have gone public. Seems like Bluesky has decided to throw caution to the wind and make everyone's posts public, but they have given the ability to opt-out and keep

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Setup: Runpod and Dolphin 2.5

Dear Reader, Before you dive headfirst into this guide, do yourself a favor and check out this link: https://erichartford.com/dolphin-25-mixtral-8x7b. It's not just some random babble; it's your primer on the myriad ways to run Dolphin 2.5. Got it? Good. Now, let'

Byte-Sized Blips

CSS: The 'ch' unit

<style> .hey { width: 3ch; overflow: hidden; } </style> <p class="hey">1234567890</p> Dear reader, Have you heard of or better yet used the ‘ch’ unit in CSS? No? Well, aren't you a lucky one, blissfully unaware of this

Cerebral Static

OpenAI "Assistants": Untangling the threads

Dear reader, So, you've stumbled upon my corner of the internet, eager to decode the enigma of OpenAI's "assistants". Well, brace yourself for a journey through the convoluted, yet intriguing, world of OpenAI's "assistants". Brace yourself for a long introduction

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Visceral response to certain visual stimuli

NOTE: This is just my personal experience, skip this if you don't care. Dear reader, Today, I'm delving into the peculiarities of the mind—specifically, mine. As well of the anecdote of how it occurred. I was playing around with Image Generation, one of the images

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Reflecting on OpenAI Dev day announcments

* Introduction * The Mysterious Link * Features & Changes in the Spotlight * GPTS: A Layman's Toy or a Glimpse of the Future? * Updated GPT-3.5 Turbo: A Lackluster Improvement? * GPT-4 Turbo: A Step Up or Just a Side Step? * Assistants * Consistency Decode: A Thrilling Prospect or a Hardware Nightmare? * Performance

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A City of Broken Dreams: A review of Cities Skylines 2

tl;dr Felt like I had too high expectations but that was quite shattered just by launching the game, feels early access and rushed out. Would have preferred honesty. C rank. * Introduction * First impression: A rough start * The Good: Glimmers of Brilliance * The Bad: Dusk Falls Over the Digital Concrete

Visual Studio Code: Unbind "Copilot Chat" from CMD + I

* First access "Keyboard shortcuts" * From the menubar: Code → Settings → Keyboard Shortcuts * OR ⌘ + KS (Hold down CMD and then type K and S while ⌘ is held down) * Search for "Chat" or more specifically it is "Inline Chat: Start Inline Chat" * Right Click the offending entry

Threads - Initial impressions

I've spent the past few days navigating the tiny labyrinth of "Threads," the new social media contender daring to rival Twitter. Fittingly I've done something quite meta, I've composed my initial assessment right within the app, threading my thoughts in real time.

Recent Social media events: Technological Tantrums

So dear reader it's The first week of July 2023 and the world is still hot with technological tantrums. First we had Reddit and now Twitter. Both of which are not at a full blown melt down yet, but are no longer very promising. So it seems these

Final Fantasy 16 - Lost it's Magick

tl;dr Devil May Cry on a diet, mid game, B tier. If you've never played an "action" game before and would like to try then this game won't be bad. If you expecting an JRPG or an RPG then this is not the

LoRA Experiment 8 - Making progress and overturning my past findings

tl;dr Two main points 1. Do not upgrade your Nvidia drivers to Version 535! If you have then downgrade to version 531 2. At least double your training's Network Alpha based on your Network Rank Oh, isn't this a pleasant surprise? It appears that my

My take on OpenAI's API Updates for June 2023

Dear reader, this is just going to my take on what was published so the source of truth is https://openai.com/blog/function-calling-and-other-api-updates, https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/gpt/function-calling and the emails they sent out to the developers on the day. As I read through the latest

'Function calling', OpenAI's API new feature.

Well dear reader, I woke up this morning, checked the news and I got quite excited, OpenAI had decided to shake things up again. They've updated their LLM and one of the stand out features was the ability to add "functions" flaunting it as a '

My thoughts on Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty's requirements

This is going to be a post about my thoughts the machine requirements so if you looking for a preview or something this is the wrong place. I was quite surprised when I woke up this morning, out of the blue—a tweet from the Cyberpunk team about the much-anticipated