Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • dots

    soft and comfy
    they are
    in their little bubble
    the world around
    can keep moving
    and it does
    always moving
    they're just two dots
    together
    slowly swaying
    amidst the chaos
    

• Technology and Free Software

  • Getting ROCm working on Arch WSL

    With Anthropic releasing their J-space paper, I decided to see if I can replicate it on RWKV, the RNN inspired LLM that actually works. One problem, I can't seem to collect the required calabration data using q Q4 model, the activation change is way too big on small perturbations.. BF16 does work but my poor 6700XT has 12GB of VRAM while the 13.3B model requires ~27GB at BF16.,, and the CPU is too slow for experiments. I do have a Strix Helo machine laying around with 128GB of fast LPDDR5. But that thing runs windows and I do not want to wipe it. Luckly ROCm does support WSL. But getting it to work is a small journey.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Should I move back to plaintext pages?

      Around two or three weeks ago I changed my tooling for my gopher content to create gophermaps instead of plaintext files for "pages". It always annoyed me that I couldn't use links in a normal way in my posts. And it was really some work to change my scripts for creating the phlog index and RSS feed files to use gophermaps instead of plaintext files, every page in its own directory.

      Don't get me wrong! I still mostly create my Gopher pages manually, the converting into real gophermaps is done by gophernicus, which adds a filetype "i" to each line and completes "h" type URLs to be understood by _most_ Gopher clients. My generation scripts just create the phlog index, the RSS feed and add a header and footer to my pages. And I was happy that my scripts were finally the way I wanted them!