wan2.5 playtime
29/03/2025
Just heard of Alibaba’s latest model, and it’s very slick, and quite lightweight!Here’s a sample of what I’ve been playing with today, really happy with the early attempts 🙂
Automated Feature Engineering and EDA in Python Introduction Data analysis and machine learning often involve tedious and time-consuming tasks such as exploratory data analysis (EDA) and feature engineering. Fortunately, several Python packages can help automate these processes, allowing you to focus on more critical aspects of your project. This blog post will explore some of the most useful packages for automated EDA and feature engineering, along with best practices and…
These AI chips… they’re gettin’ faster every damn day. It’s like they’re in a race… a race to see who can make the most money off my anxieties. They’re buildin’ these things bigger and faster so they can track my every move online. Every click, every search, every damn time I look at a picture of a cheeseburger. They know. They know.
Updated shuffle of PSP games
08/02/2025
Updated shuffle of PSP games, curated to ones I’ll pick up and play, with some classics installed in 2006! Music Beat Games Rockband Unplugged I’ve never got into these games in the past, beyond picking up a Rockband drum-kit to use as a sampling device :p DLC installed too, some great tracks, really appreciate the Pearl Jam & GlaDos tune Gitaroo Man Lives! Fun off the wall arcade guitar beat…
PSP new battery new games library
07/02/2025
I’ve picked up a new battery for my PSP this week, and taking this opportunity to update the installed games I’m looking for ones that are quick for pickup and play. I do have a fondness for beat ’em ups, [Street Fighter & Tekken], and shoot ’em ups [not so much bullet hell, more cute ’em up style] So what gets a place on my SD card? Fighting Games Street…
Pyramid Flow
10/12/2024
I’ve been playing with a couple of locally installed image generation models, having heaps of fun 🙂My journey began with Stable Diffusion, and working through the multitude of available models, and loras, I was quite happy with the results… until I found Pyramid Flow! I really should document my journey, challenges, tools and methods, but for now here’s a short video I knocked together
Cyberpunk Haiku
02/08/2024
Sticking with the William Gibson theme, like I deviate from this theme much; it does seem to be my Lorem ipsum I had Llama 3.1 8B write haiku (not sure if this is the correct grammar for multiple?) for each chapter of the Sprawl Trilogy Neuromancer Chapter 1 In virtual space Case seeks to find his way out Of this digital hell Chapter 2 Armitage speaks low Whispers secrets, danger…
Local LLM’s and image generation
02/08/2024
I’m really very impressed, and surprised, at how easy it is to install GPT models on a local machine with GPT4All, plus the bonus of Stable Diffusion After not having any success with setting up a GPT chat bot on a Raspberry PI 3, and even found I couldn’t do it on an old Lenovo T510, I decided to try on my Linux box, and was blown away by the…
Too long without posts 3 things on my mind; orca, Starfield, Local Hosted GPT 🙂 Orca Few weeks ago I wondered into the living room & spotted the dark shapes bobbing through the inner harbour that I now recognise as orca! Picking up the binoculars confirmed this. I jumped in the car, and headed down to the local wharf to await their arrival… but they decided not to make it…
Independent Gaming Blogs
25/05/2024
After setting up CloudFlare to protect this digital home, and bailing from Twitter when it was bought by Musk, the SEO of this site have dropped to next to zero. This led me to consider all of the other sites out there, that no longer appear on the first couple of pages of search results … so I decided to compile a list! name description url The Sixth Axis Community-driven…
However, after some experimentation, I discovered that toggling the dark mode setting can magically break the spell. It’s as if the app gets a little disoriented by the sudden shift in light and shadow, allowing you to regain control and resume your normal phone usage.
Blood Bowl 3 delivers the brutal charm of its tabletop source material, but is its heart of strategic chaos locked behind a predatory Warpstone paywall? Join the discussion!
PlayStation Plus delivers a diverse mix of experiences in March 2024. Get ready for the quirky puzzles of Hello Neighbor 2, the adrenaline rush of F1 23, the brutal beauty of Sifu, and the cosmic battles of Destiny 2: Witch Queen. Find out which game is right for you…
“This whole situation is a complete and utter shambles, a festering boil on the backside of British politics! First, we’ve got that spineless jellyfish Sunak masquerading as a Prime Minister…”
Goodness gracious me, have you heard about this Gran Turismo Sophy business? You won’t believe it! It’s not a human, mind you, but a bona fide artificial intelligence. A racing computer with a brain, if you will! Now, I’ve always been a believer that racing’s about flesh and blood, instinct and raw talent forged in the heat of the moment. But this Sophy… she’s got me rethinking things, I must…
Jabs, jolts, and a grumpy immune system…think of it as a dress rehearsal for the big virus showdown.
Okay folks, Debian ain’t all sunshine and roses when Nvidia’s involved. Mint, shockingly, might be the answer to my graphics card woes. Let’s dive into this…
My ‘aha!’ moment came after waking up from another night of my typical sightless dreams. I started wondering – do other people actually see memories like snapshots? … Aphantasia is the inability to voluntarily create images in your head – the famed ‘mind’s eye.’
Alright folks, get ready for a bird’s-eye view unlike anything you’ve seen before. We’re not talking drones, planes, or even satellites. We’re talking World View – a company that’s taking us to the stratosphere with some seriously cool balloon technology. These Ain’t Your Average Party Balloons First off, these balloons are massive. We’re talking the length of a football field! The material? Not latex, that’s for sure. It’s a super…