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For a while I've been planning to put together a separate machine for local LLM training. Until now, I've been using my desktop PC, perry. I have an RTX 3090 installed, and can get useful training runs done (most recently, a...
Shooting custom black and white and color profiles with the OM 3. These images are SOCC. Enjoy. More of my posts about photography: I'm still in search of the perfect camera If money was no object I'd buy this camera OM System OM 3 - why...
The first recording today is Pokemon: Battle Frontier – Odd Pokemon Out. The gang are on Crysanthemum Island, and let their Pokemon out to have fun. Donphan gets pursued by some Shyhorn. Nurse Joy arrives, and uses her Meganium to calm...
I was walking back from coffee in northern Sydney earlier this week—like a gentleman—when I saw Australia’s most famous locomotive steam by. AAAAAH! I got my phone out and hurriedly filmed it as it went past. Now I just need to see the...
Back in 2022, Ban Ban Ton Ton raved about George T’s then digital-only release, “Roll On, Kings Cross”. We described it as a “dynamite dose of poetry and digidub.” Likening the prose – which describes a train journey from the coast to...
Photo by Myriam Zilles on UnsplashI would like to live to one hundred. That’s the goal. Maybe a few years more, if I can. That gives me roughly seventy years from where I stand now, which is a pretty generous amount of time by any...
It all started in June. We were staying at the central Halifax home of my absent old friends Yvonne and Bob. They’d left the key for us, and we were able to let ourselves in, with a little bit of lock-jiggling. The next morning we headed...
We interrupt our regularly scheduled series of posts on AI norms and values to bring you this incredible piece from Mat Duggan, “Why Clickhouse Is Winning the Observability Wars,” which you should go read right now. Go! I’ll wait.Mat...
Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass brings a slapdash quality to a comedy that opts for a glut of gags that bob on a sea of silliness. Director David Wain (Wet Hot American Summer) delivers a preposterous story, unremitting...
We Burned So Brightby TJ KluneGenres: Science Fiction Pages: 169 Rating: Synopsis: Husbands Don and Rodney have lived a good long life. Together they’ve experienced the highest highs of love and family, and lows so low that they felt...
the graveyard highway junction every time i bike past on the way to your house completely blind what about all the things i left out? like my sunglasses tell me early: a lilac sunset will rise from the horizon in response i lift my...
A Back to the Wells, Part 6: The Food of the Gods by Matthew R. Bradley Paul Lehr’s vivid 1967 painting to illustrate H.G. Wells’s The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth (1904) is the least representational of his quintet for my...
# I finally charged the watch last night, not because it needed charging, but because I was having a bath and thought it was the ideal opportunity. It still had over 30% battery so would have lasted well into a second month. It's amazing...
Lights! Camera! Action! Todd Spangler at Variety writes: Automattic’s ‘Code for the People’ Documentary Is a Rallying Cry for Users to Fight for the Open Internet, from the NYC premiere last week. I’m looking forward to the San Francisco...