Tony is a Geek

okay, I admit I wasn't expecting much.  I was surprised.  I have ollama running locally, so I just pulled the 1.5b model down over my 4G connection. The token output was pretty fast, for instance, it was outputting at a rate that I would consider equiv. to getting it from a cloud service.  It was as fast as I could read, just, sometimes it was going faster. My 1 minute experiment was this:  I asked for some javascript code to be written to render a 3D world in a web-browser and to explain what was being done. The first section of the output showed the "reasoning" logic and "arguments" that were going on between the internal workings of the model.  Now, I recall doing this myself about 2years ago when I first built E.L.VIS - long story, won't go into it - but I was asked to "stop" as I was getting to ahead of everyone else, including myself.  As it was me, I not only stopped, I walked away & focused on "other things". Now though, it lo...

You are perfect just as you are - but you could do with a little improvement:  can you spare 30-odd minutes for a reminder? of course you can. You are the shift, you are the stillness.  Stop talking to yourself.  Enjoy the mirror.

Interesting title to the video below.   There is an arrogant assumption that "we", as in the human being meat sacks are the "pinnacle" of evolution on this planet.  wow, that is such an arrogant stance.  I shall resist the urge to go on a mega-rant about how massively flawed the human being is & basically how pathetic it is at handling ANYTHING in relation to existing & surviving on this planet, but I'll drop a minor one: strip naked, go into the middle of a wooded area & survive for 1, 2, 3 nights - let's make it fun - do it for 4 weeks.  Let's see how much you eat, drink, keep warm,  - oh you were thinking of somewhere nice like Dorset or the Cotswolds - no, I was thinking more like the jungle, where there is a minute-by-minute fight for survival to exist.  If you aren't bitten by things, eaten by things, infected by things within the first 5 minutes I'd be very surprised - human beings are the worst at surviving naturally. And that...

A little while back - okay, nearly a year ago: https://tonyisageek.blogspot.com/2024/01/meconsole-weconsole-uconsole.html I decided to purchase a uConsole device.  I selected to have a 4G internal adapter inside, but for the love of god, I tried everything to get the b*s*d thing to work, I even changed the internal firmware - maybe it was the fact I was using giffgaff? I don't know.  Anyway, I then got some "bluepoints" (some people will know what that means!) and well, I then cashed them in for a £50 Amazon card. Next thing you know, I have 2 x 4G USB dongles coming my way :-D Why two, Tony?  Well, y'know, I either break one, I take one apart, I destroy one or one never does what it says, yadeyadaya... After having such fun getting the UGV Rover working the past few days , I finally got around to having a go with setting up the 4G USB dongles. Both devices came with 02 sim cards from sims4home.co.uk with a discount code - I actually use this in my campervan, works a...

Okay, whilst mental hopping between a few things, I decided to "go back to basics" and remove the Docker and ROS2 aspects out of the equation. Why couldn't I go back to the "bare metal" on the Raspberry Pi 5? and just use Python (yes, I know, I know) to read and write to the /dev/ ports. To save the UGV driving off the foot stool, I propped it up on some old books that were propped against a wall.  This free's the wheels up so they can move without driving off the top! As it's a SUNDAY, I'm having a relaxed day, as you can tell! I found quite a few lines of code on the good old inter-webs & of course, it all works "perfectly fine" for everyone else, of course it does. sigh. It's just me, then is it?  I did wonder about this & I tried to find real videos / photo's / website that show the LiDAR actually working with the UGV, y'know what, yep - couldn't find anything.  Hmmm.... I started to scratch my beard at this poin...

Last year it was about Meshtastic and LoRa devices running on Heltec v3 devices. This year, it's all about the Rectum[sic] :  https://github.com/markqvist/reticulum So, what is it? Well, it's an alternative protocol for sending low-bandwidth data over RF (radio frequencies).  "so what?" Well, today you are spoilt by using 4G/5G (3G was turned off recently) where you have high bandwidth available to send voice, images and text information. What if you don't have access to the cell-towers? what if someone switches it off, for whatever reason. Well, that was what Meshtastic was going to help with & it's mighty fine at doing that - I'm suggesting that you run both these options in parallel.  "Why?" Well, they serve slightly different purposes. Meshtastic is raw, the minimum, nothing fancy.  It is a black screen with green text & lines.  It communicates over low-bandwidth and the battery life is long because of this. Reticulum, see, I have tro...