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Comment · 4 months ago

My system is quite similar to your, my GPU is a 6950 XT and CPU a Ryzen 5 2600x, same amount of RAM, and I feel your pain. It sounds very similar to my experience from a few months ago. When it comes to tool calling, there are multiple possible issues; some models have borked templates bundled with the model file, some models are not trained on tool calling, some agent harnesses doesn't support the tool call output from the model very well, some quantizations ruin the models' abilities to call tools.

My suggestions if you want to further experiment with local models are to use llama.cpp instead of ollama [1], learn a little about the parameters that tune how much VRAM is used [2], look online for jinja template fixes for the model you're testing [3], and choose a model that was designed to do the task you want to achieve, with as high quantization as you can fit. The maximum model size you can run is VRAM + RAM, although you want as little of the model to be in system RAM as possible.

I'm running North Mini Code IQ3_XXS with some tuned parameters to fit my current tasks, and while it is not perfect for everything, it has not failed any tool calls I've asked it to make, or that it figured it should make on its own.

[1]: https://sleepingrobots.com/dreams/stop-using-ollama/

[2]: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/blob/master/tools/serv...

[3]: https://gist.github.com/jscott3201/e4b155885cc68c038d6ac8909...

Comment · 6 months ago

I'm in the same boat as you, and every time I touch a Windows PC I am again and again surprised at all the junk they put in there by default. Not only Microsoft, but also the OEMs. So much junkware, so many accounts they want you to create, and all without any benefit to the user.

Comment · 8 months ago

The written price is the written price, and that's final. No tips.

Comment · 11 months ago

Thanks for the link and tl;dr, even though it's a quite short video (3:16). I found your explanation very interesting because I have intuitively felt like this is accurate, but never knew what the underlying process is. I have been following this for years already, first absorbing information about anything where I need to make a decision, and then just leave it to stew in the back of my mind. And after a while the answer just appears in my mind, without me really understanding where it comes from.

Comment · 1 year ago

There are probably several libraries that offer this functionality, the question is just what your other requirements are. It is also built into most modern web browsers, just check out the MDN for Intl.DateTimeFormat with the dayPeriod option [1].

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

Comment · 1 year ago

This page has horrible scrolling. I really don't understand why anybody creates this kind of scroll. Are they not using what they create?

Comment · 1 year ago

You are right, these quirks are not something you struggle with very often. The only one that has been troublesome at some point during my now 8 years as a professional, mainly Javascript with Vue, web developer is the automatic semicolon insertion example.

The simplest fixes for it is to just insert semicolons yourself, always use const, and not start any lines with [ or (.

Comment · 2 years ago

I recently switched jobs, and as I've become more comfortable in my new job, I realized that my old job completely sucked the creativity and fun out of programming for me. I did not have any energy for any projects in my spare time while working in my previous job, so the 1,5 months I've been focusing on taking small ideas and running with them.

This weekend I got an idea to create a 2D-pattern from a 1D initial pattern. I put it on https://ige.land/, and I find it very fun and satisfying to play around with. It's not so elegant and pretty, but it's fun for me, and that's all I was looking for! Click any cell to change that color in the pattern. Right click or long press to set the length of the 1D pattern. It's also fun to first create a pattern and then resize the browser window to see how it looks like.

So, what I'm working on is not really an interesting project or product. I'm working on my creativity, playing with code, and in general having more fun with programming. Making it magical for myself again.

I'm not sure if it's 100% in line with the spirit of the thread, but it's what I'm most excited to be working on! :-)

Comment · 2 years ago

I clicked around a little and I think that the correct page for me is this one, perhaps it is the correct one for you too? The script doesn't work, but it looks like it could work with some tweaking. https://www.facebook.com/adpreferences/ad_settings/?section=...

Comment · 2 years ago

I love userscripts, and I'm so happy to see and hear that other are using them and developing them. Well done, Will! I hope you keep making userscripts!

Comment · 2 years ago

I think that that is supposed to prepare web apps for verification in the browser, in order to not allow them to run or connect to a remote server unless they are confirmed to be not tampered with, and that the main goal of this is to disallow usage of websites and related services unless ads are served. An adblock-blocker in the browser, sold as a security feature that protects against no real threats.

I refuse to believe that rouge browser extensions and userscripts are such a big problem that Meta decides to invest in security against those attack vectors.

Comment · 2 years ago

This was a fun read! Thank you

Comment · 2 years ago

I use Ripgrep daily, and it helps me a lot when navigating codebases, and I even use it to search through my notes. A while ago, I made a script that looks for file paths in the output from Ripgrep in order to turn the paths into clickable links, as I couldn't get it to work properly back then. I'm so happy to hear that «the headlining feature in this release is hyperlink support»! I'm really looking forward to using the new update.

Comment · 3 years ago

I felt that it was on point to point out Microsoft, as it was the main area where I first started using emojis (before they were emojis, even though it was functionally the same). MSN Messenger came with a nice set of default smileys, and it was very simple to create your own smileys and use them in conversations with others. When other people sent a smiley to you, you could just right click it and add it to your own private repertoire of smileys.

Comment · 3 years ago

> Almost the whole of Scandinavia speaks English as a second language, and yet English does not highlight any or the four countries. Most Scandinavian people might agree with this general observation that knowing little to no Nordic language can still get you by very comfortably in that region, although knowing the national language is a plus.

Another thing this website miss out on is that, with goodwill on both parts, Scandinavians can usually communicate with other Scandinavians in different languages. I am Norwegian, and if I meet a Swede, we can just talk with each other. I can't talk Swedish fluently, but I can understand Swedish to such a degree that it's no problem to speak with a Swede who is speaking Swedish.

However, this relationship of understanding languages can be asymmetric, and it's not always as easy for a Swede to understand a Norwegian as it is for a Norwegian to understand a Swede.

Check out this video on asymmetric language understanding from NativLang for more about this! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E042GHlUgoQ