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Coffee thread
How goes the roasting, grinding, drinking? Tagging @Muninn and I forget who else was into the specialty stuff, sorry.
I'm still liking Monsooned Malabar very much. I found decent quality beans of this type from a much cheaper source. I've cut my bean expenses by over 50%. I love how this bean smells of several spices at the same time.
I'll probably still try out some expensive specialty beans from time to time, but I've kinda settled into a more regular, reasonable habit by now.
It is to my great shame that I have to admit that I'm out of beans at the moment and need to roast more. If things go exceedingly well for me in the work/play department today (details to follow), I might just roast up one of several Ethiopians that I seem to have over-ordered recently, but we shall see how the day goes. Anyway, I'm glad to hear that you've been able to cut your expenses and that you're enjoying your recent bean! If I actually achieve my ambitious goals, I should be able to post a coffee hater's club thread later this week.
To be fair to myself and my lack of roasting, I just got home from a trip and my intention to roast has been complicated by both an issue with my VPN setup that was down to an outdated key in my original downloaded configuration that needed to be updated (doh!) as well as what has proved to be an irresistible urge to start playing in the deep end of technology again, however expensive and ill-advised said urge might be. The latter has involved trying out Bazzite, which will be my first Fedora-based distro in over a decade (and how different even is Red Hat land these days, anyway?), and will probably involve installing gpt-oss-20b today to kick the tires and play around with because
I've been hanging around here for too long nownow that my work responsibilities are more right-sized, I've recovered enough from burnout to start to be interested in tech again, though not quite enough to write any one of several effortposts that have been kicking around in my mind, including one about said burnout. Hmm, maybe I should poll our fellow Mottizens to find out which subject would be most interesting...Offline ai models make weird mistakes even when they're 30b in size. Mine kept looping uselessly when I asked it to make some statistics on a pretty simple log file.
Yeah, I expect that pretty much comes with the territory, but I've got it up and running and I'm still interested in kicking the tires and playing around a bit!
Do you think there are any special tricks to getting a relatively small (offline) model performing well? I'm thinking that maybe it's extra necessary to be really clear in ones prompting.
I think it's certainly possible, and I can't help but believe that llm-fu is a Thing just as Google-fu is a Thing, but I'm too new to the llm scene to be able to currently have a decent idea one way or another with any real authority. I've got several different models that I want to test out for different things, but the two big things I want to play around with are training an llm with custom data, and automating a bunch of my wife's standard tedious tasks, like writing progress notes (which I'd like to sound like her thanks to said custom data training, if possible), entering visits into the software her biller is using, and sending out appointment reminders. Not to get too far ahead of myself, but if an offline model is up to that task, then I might pursue setting up an Openclaw agent for her to use for extra lulz, but all of this is just window dressing on the underlying desire to tinker, which is a desire that I want to feed now that it's back after fading in the teens and being completely absent for most of this decade.
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