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Local 8B LLM Benchmarks: MacBook M4 vs RTX 3070 vs Cloud CPU
Open source models have gotten unbelievably good, which has opened up a world of home uses for enthusiasts of all kinds. With no AI background you can have Ollama serving models on any laptop or desktop machine you have lying around, and with a little more work you can use that to have your own …
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Covid-19 data in Python
What did New York geeks do this spring? Obsess over pandemic data. The best data source for US data is Covid Tracking, the Atlantic Monthly project used by many hospitals and the US government. I was able to muck around in python and make this GIF. Additional data for the state shapes is from Census.gov …
Setting up MySQL on a Raspberry Pi 3 B+
MySQL on ARM! It is not rocket surgery, but I’ve aggregated the different sources needed below with a brief description of how to get it installed. ARM has continued it’s march to the data center, with most Enterprise Linux Distributions supporting 64-bit ARM in the last year and a growing list of ARM devices available …
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