Nish Tahir

Over the weekend, I had some interesting discussions about the impacts AI on developer growth and skill atrophy. Much of that discussion was inspired by Mo Bitar's video on the subject. Within my small group, we couldn't come to a consensus on its impacts. We all

I recently got my hands on a GMKTec Evo X2 for local model inference. Here's my hardware details nish@gmktec-evo-x2:~$ sudo lshw -short H/W path Device Class Description ========================================================= system NucBox_EVO-X2 (EVO-X2-001) /0 bus GMKtec /0/0 memory 64KiB BIOS /0/b memory 1280KiB L1 cach

OpenAI's dev day was today. While I wrote up a short summary of what was announced on bluesky, one of the major announcements was the AppSDK for ChatGPT. It looks like OpenAI plans to position ChatGPT as a platform for the future not unlike the Google Play and

A Norm of a vector \(\vec{v}\) describes the magnitude or size of a vector. It is usually denoted as \(||\vec{v}||\). There are a few common norms worth discussing. Eucledian Norm (L2 Norm) Let's consider a vector v = [3, 4] we can calculate the Eucledean norm as,

A fantastic deep dive into the seahorse emoji phenomena[1] was recently published by Theia[2]. It's engaging, well presented and worth reading. The post presents a case using meta-llama/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct. However I wanted to verify this behavior with smaller models which unsurprisingly fail the challenge as

Last week I happened to be in a discussion that involved getting an LLM to generate JSON reliably. A major frustration expressed was that no matter how much they tried the model would often fail to follow instructions during generation. I pointed out that most major vendors support some variant