Saturday, 8 March 2025

Usable Seeed Respeaker 4-mic Array on Raspberry Pi OS

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  Seeed Respeaker Mic Arrays I bought the Seeed Respeaker 4-mic Array to run Picroft/Mycroft smart speaker . I was quite pleased with it u...
Saturday, 12 October 2024

Llama3 on a shoestring Part 2: Upgrading the CPU

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Generated locally on a shoestring Stable Diffusion In Part 1 , while llama3 runs the resulting chatbot is frustratingly slow. A key problem ...
Friday, 27 September 2024

Llama 3 on a Shoestring Part 1 of 2: 2011-vintage 3GHz AMD Phenom II 16GB RAM and RTX3060 12GB

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Llama working at his workstation. This image was generated locally using Stable Diffusion on a 2011 desktop with an Nvidia RTX3060 12GB GPU ...
Monday, 17 June 2024

Optimus under the Hood: OpenCV with CUDA for Nvidia GT 640M GPU and Slackware 14.2

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Optimus Prime stepping forth from laptop - AI-generated image from getimg.ai  Never thought much about my laptop GPUs. Even less about Nvidi...
Tuesday, 23 January 2024

Internet Server Blues: Serveo, Public IP, CGNAT and Accessing Your Servers from the Internet

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Connection timeout For over 2 decades I ran servers from my home. Before the github and the weblog, a personal website is a handy way to ke...
Wednesday, 3 May 2023

Tensorflow and Keras for the Nvidia Geforce GT 710

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  ... alas! either the locks were too large, or the key was too small, but at any rate it would not open any of them.  Seemingly against the...
Saturday, 22 April 2023

Nvidia GeForce GT 710: Down the Rabbit Hole of Proprietary Obsolescence

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  " ... down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again." - Lewis Carroll, 'Alice...