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Unlocking the Potential of Hermes for AI Tasks
An old Raspberry Pi workshop series aimed to boost digital literacy at the library through eight interactive sessions covering foundational computing, coding, and electronics skills for ages 13 and up. Funding challenges necessitated exploring alternative solutions for materials and support. Read More
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Hermes & Honcho
Setting up Hermes, an orchestrator within the Ollama framework. Highlighting features such as improved context management, a visually appealing interface, and the ability to run various models locally. Despite some installation challenges, Hermes enabled effective task execution and process spawning. Read More
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Understanding the Challenges of Updates
Various personal and work-related experiences, from scheduling a pacemaker procedure to attending a board meeting discussing supervisor censure. I also navigate technical challenges with OpenClaw, consider quality issues, and describe the agents’ development work and dreams coming online. Read More
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AI & Life: Balancing Personal Struggles and Growth
Since the passing of my stepmother, I have been less active on my blog, focusing instead on AI and various community issues. My history with programming and chatbots, particularly ELIZA and neural networks, influences my work in automated coding & music. Read More
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Bringing AI Processing Home
Rising AI token costs have pushed me to bring more research processing in-house. By reviving an aging gaming computer with a new SSD, Ubuntu, Ollama, and OpenClaw, I hope to run overnight document analysis locally. Read More
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LLM’s and RAG
Working through LLM’s, looking at RAG, and more of the features of Open WebUI such as adding custom prompts, tools, importing knowledge, etc. I start looking at buying a new machine, a small form factor, then a normal size, but settle for upgrading to a Raspberry Pi 5 with an AI chip (Hailo 8L), but… Read More
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Setting up LLM on Raspberry Pi
My adventures setting up a large language model (LLM) on Raspberry Pi, and updating the AI to have knowledge Read More