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The Beep Boop is coming from inside the house!

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"With a decent local GPU and some free open source software like ollama and open-webui you can try 'open source' LLM models like Meta's llama, Mistral AI's mistral, or Alibaba's qwen entirely offline." Lenie Clarke has a big ol' post on Homebrew LLMs and Open Source Models

11/18/24
by taz

Speech-to-text with Whisper

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Whisper, from OpenAI, is an open source tool you can run on your own computer that "approaches human level robustness and accuracy on English speech recognition"

10/18/22
by taz

Buy, Buy Birdy

Ja tvoi Rabotnik

What does the fox say?

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... but a distressing number of our users wind up making some unwise choices and/or installing some dodgy third-party software that a guy on the corner said would be perfectly safe and legal and also a good time, and wake up with a headache and no wallet and some addons that don't _quite_ do what that guy on the corner said they would. And when they try to figure out why their computer is suddenly so slow, process monitor isn't going to tell them it's because that download-accelerator that ad on the torrent site said to install is mining bitcoins on the side, it's going to say "Firefox, 99% CPU".

Mozillian MeFite Mhoye adds insight and answers questions in Rhaomi's recent multi-link Crazy like a (Fire)Fox post.

08/25/15
by taz

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