Tony is a Geek

okay, so I wanted a super simple UI as a front-end for a localGPT / privateGPT / offline GPT model. I didn't want to write a python flask app - as I am so against that as a reality. I didn't want to write a nodeJS app, as that was just way too much effort. I didn't want to learn the latest (this weeks fave) JavaScript Framework. I didn't want to messa round with ReactJS / <insert other names here>. I just wanted a SIMPLE UI tool. I had a couple of suggestions. I actually wanted to use node-red uibuilder (and probably will do in the future). I was erring on begrudgingly using python in some form or other as the existing interaction code to the localGPT (basically a ChromaDB that was populated with content using a gpt4all model as the baseline for the embeddings - if none of that made sense, you best stop reading now) ........ I then stumbled over this gem of a super simple UI tool. Gradio.app ....how simple? Yep, that simple. Just a pip install, some super simple c...

...and that is not THIS type of Lorra Lorra laughs : Cyla Black although, my laughs were more tears of woe and then tears of joy-ish What is LoRa and why is it spelt that way? well, you could DuckDuckGo and search for it, however, simple description: "Lo-ng Ra-nge comms" . [UPDATE: okay, I'll answer the question, "why bother? why not just use WiFi?" - that is such a non-Gen X question.  Right. WiFi sucks a LOT of power, I mean a LOT.  It also requires an AP (access point), one device will have to be a gateway router for one device to connect to the other... and also, well, the "LoRa" name says it all... can you move your laptop outside your house, walk down the street, keep walking, keep walking some more and still get a signal to that WiFi AP? no. no you cannot. Ah, ha, then you'll attempt to be smart and say, "4G" or "5G", well, yes, but that needs another device, such as your phone to be required, then you have to connect yo...

A previously mentioned, I have purchased pre-assembled Z80-MBC3 and RC2014 electronics boards and components, waiting for "that" rainy day to come along.... Well, yesterday was that day, and boy did it rain!  Today, however, lovely sunshine and blue skies.  It's early and I'm killing time until I can go and pick up my Jaguar STR, after she's had some bodywork repairs done by an expert/professional.  Don't know what one of those is? click here. very rare actually, they only made 129 in the '07 year and there is probably about 30 left on the road.  As the paperwork says, "it was the fastest production road car when it was released.  faster than any supercars out there...", food for thought, huh? anyway, side-tracked. So, I have a couple of Z80 CPU based computers I'm going to build - except, they are new, but they are old, retro-vintage, if you like.  What's a Z80, you ask? (then you must be <40yrs old), here you go: Basically, without ...