minot (part 1)

yesterday:

• test ChatGPT's new "custom voices" feature. 🔥 ( can it do a xantham-y voice?)

The voices are ... good, but not good enough. I can't see myself building a product on top of this version. Maybe the next version. The API is simple enough that it would take about 2 days to come up with an MVP.

• test Gemma3:4b and Gemma3:1b locally

The results are good, but not magical. They are tuned for chatting, but struggle more than Gemma2 on mechanical tasks 💡 ( copy the misspelled word from this sentence) . They do fairly well on the accuracy / time tradeoffs 💡 ( because the hardware is the same, "time" is an accurate way of measuring "cost")

• get the greenland quals to be available on the public internet 🔥 ( I still haven't chosen a domain for it. Should earlyversion have file hosting? Probably not.)

• look at some old EA game repos ⚙️ ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43197131 for commentary) and download some to universe.

What is universe?

It is my archive of Git repositories, or similar.

for today:

• a "watchdog" for Atacama? the machine has become wedged twice in 3 months. both fixes were of the "just restart the server" persuasion. ⚔️ ( well, actually, the problem is that the lexer has an infinite loop on a single unpaired asterisk.)
• more blogging, less technical work