Category: Blog

  • New Year, New Habits, New Goals.

    New Year, New Habits, New Goals.

    It’s January 1st and, as arbitrary of a date as it may be to set up new habits and plans for the year to come – because the best time to start on new habits or goals is NOW, no matter time of year it is – it’s also not at all arbitrary because, hey,…

  • Review: Just Peachy – Holly Chishom

    Review: Just Peachy – Holly Chishom

    One of the things I love about going to the library is the serendipity that happens every time I go. I almost never go looking for a specific book: I just kinda wander around until I see something that looks interesting. My favorite places to look are on the return carts on the second floor…

  • AI Helpers

    I use AI helpers a lot. Today I decided I need help managing my to do list and so I made Taskmaster. It’s based on Dolphin-Llama3.1 and runs Ollama on my main home server using a GTX 1070 for the GPU. This is how I tested my prompt for it. VICTOR Hello Taskmaster, I am…

  • A Conversation with Friday

    An interesting conversation with my personal AI assistant, Friday (run locally on-prem, dolphin-mistral:latest with my own special sauce in the prompt): Topics: Creativity, learning strategies/philosophies, mathematics, psychology, AI development, the future VICTOR Hey Friday, how goes? FRIDAY Oh, hello there! It’s been a while since we chatted last. How have you been keeping yourself busy?…