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Get Along
I enjoy listening to Get Along by Kenny Chesney periodically, often smiling to myself. I was reminded of this song recently while talking about careers and the AI impact during VSLive San Diego. On one hand, most of the people I surveyed or chatted with were using AI to accomplish some tasks. However, very few are using it in a way that would eliminate their positions or do the majority of their work. On the third hand,…
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Car Update September 2026
Software is hard. While I love our Lucid Gravity, I realize that they are behind Tesla with software. A few of the weird UX and software engineering decisions they’ve made. This is part of a series of thoughts on cars, just for fun. These are my thoughts and opinions based on my experiences. Confirmations When I got the car, the phone-as-key wasn’t working. I could open an app on my phone and unlock the doors and enable…
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Finely Tuned Models
I have no idea if this is true, but this post on X says that Thomson Reuters used information they’ve collected for decades to fine tune and train a model. They started with one of the qwen models and then spent $40 million to add their knowledge to the model. The post says this model is comparable to the Gpt5.5 and Sonnet 5 models. They have used 10% of their data, which spans over 100 years. I…
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Local Models Using GPUs with Ollama
Can you use your GPUs when running a local model under Ollama? You can, and it really depends on how you run Ollama and what your hardware is. Ollama supports NVidia and AMD GPUs with some exceptions. You can read about their hardware support here. There are drivers required from the vendors, and configuration, but it can help with performance. Of course, GPUs aren’t cheap. I have an NVidia GeorForce RTX 2060, which is listed as being…
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Creating a Local Model Chatbot on Windows
After my session at VSLive last week, I had a few questions from the audience. I’m adding some of these into blogs, and this was one: How do I run the docker compose to get a local chatbot? I didn’t include the dockerfile in a a repo, mostly because it’s simple, but just to make it easy, it’s in this zip: ollama-docker-compose.zip. To start this, I’ll assume you have Docker (or equivalent), but no images. Create a…
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