George Georgovassilis writes about information technology architecture
In a previous post [GM4] we ran gemma4 12B on a 16GB RAM budget; today we'll push the envelop and run deepseek-r1:14b-qwen-distill-q4_K_M on the same budget. While last time we got away by fiddling with the model definition, today we'll have to reconfigure the OS itself (in addition to fiddling with the model definition). While … Continue reading Running even larger LLMs on small hardware
Overview UI/browser automation tests can be brittle, because tests hook into implementation details of the UI which may not be relevant for actual user interaction. Visual test automation is more robust, because it uses the UI in the same way a user is supposed to do. This post explains a solution for visual browser automation. … Continue reading Visual browser automation with OmniParser
Google released Gemma 4 12B today. I'm a huge fan of the Gemma model family, they have improved with each iteration and consistently perform on par with larger models. It didn't run at first because it needs more VRAM that my laptop has, but there's a workaround. Here's a short instruction for how to run … Continue reading Running large LLMs on small hardware: Gemma 4 12B on a VRAM-constrained Radeon laptop
In this instalment of "One Paper a Week", we're looking at Waveformer, a neural network for extracting specific waveforms from a sound mix in real-time. If you're thinking "Independent Component Analysis", you're not alone: ICA can also extract a desired signal from a mix of signals (similarly to how we are able to understand a … Continue reading OPAW: Real-Time Target Sound Extraction
Motivation If you've ever needed to restrict which commands can be run inside a VS Code integrated terminal - nowadays mainly to prevent agents from wreaking havoc - you can achieve this using a combination of VS Code terminal profiles and PowerShell's PSReadLine module. I'm not sure is/how this works with other terminals, however I've … Continue reading Restricting VS Code terminal commands to an approved commands list
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