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Here, I share a variety of random posts on topics that interest me, along with photographs I’ve taken and interviews I’ve done.
I’ve been casually blogging (incuding photoblogging and microblogging) across different platforms since 2003. I’m in the process of gathering a curated version of all that content here, so many of the old posts are republished material.
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Conversations with LLMs #01. Trying out Deepseek
I wanted to try out some of the so-called reasoning models (after all the hype about Deepseek and ChaGPT-4o), so I installed Ollama and ran locally the new DeepSeek-R1, which is a distilled model based on Qwen (DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B). So, what exactly are “reasoning models”? Essentially, they provide some background text before giving the actual answer,…
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The decline of humanities/democracy
Excerpt from The End of the English Major, by Nathan Heller in The New Yorker (2023-02-27) “Until about four years ago, I thought it was a reversible situation—that those who profess the humanities hadn’t been good enough at selling them to students,” James Shapiro, an English professor at Columbia, told me in his office one…
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Hällesmörk
The end of Galärvagen trail, in Hällesmörk, Sweden (but the misty mountains in the background are in Norway).
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Björnerödspiggen
A lovely walk through the woods to Björnerödspiggen, the highest peak in Bohuslän, though admittedly that’s not saying much (222 m)…
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Whispers of Autumn: A Swedish Serenade
I asked ChatGPT for a title for this photo, and it replied me that (!), so I’m not to blame…
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