Andrew B. Collier

Geek, hacker, data (mung|wrangl)er, speaker, runner, mycophile, blogger. #54898 @[email protected] .

[Andrew B. Collier @datawookie]

Want to run a 120 B parameter model on your laptop? No GPU. No enormous download. No screaming CPU fan. No problem with @ollama Cloud. 👉 https://t.co/dUblcG7gCO

[Andrew B. Collier @datawookie]

Proxy services all make the same promises. I care about three things:

- Can I get a working connection quickly?
- Do the exit IPs look like real residential IPs?
- How much latency does it add?

I tested Geonode. Here's what I found 👇 https://t.co/HEJodv6Puh

[Andrew B. Collier @datawookie]

Running #Ollama on #EC2 doesn't need a GPU, a load balancer, or a devops team. A t3.medium, quick install and pull a model, then connect through an SSH tunnel gets you surprisingly far.

New post: Quick and Dirty Ollama on EC2 👇 https://t.co/khxRpdsqer

[Andrew B. Collier @datawookie]

Local models aren't just for enthusiasts anymore. They're now a viable tool to de-risk and control costs as provider fees rise. I’m surveying the local model landscape. First stop: an Atlas of the #Ollama Universe.

🚀 Full post at https://t.co/00N348v2fy.

#LLM #AI #LocalModels

[Andrew B. Collier @datawookie]

@Tech_Marsha ON

[Frances Marsha @Tech_Marsha]

One of the most overlooked AI publishing systems right now?

Claude AI.

When paired with the right design tools, it becomes a seamless workflow for creating, formatting, and publishing premium eBooks on Amazon KDP.
The real advantage is scalability.

Using this exact system, our portfolio crossed $72,000 in royalties last month.

With just 4–6 high-quality books, the results can snowball faster than most creators expect.

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Get it:
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[Andrew B. Collier @datawookie]

@FNBSA how is it that charges are being rejected on a petrol card despite it being in good standing and having ample credit? This is not the first time. It seems to happen every month. Is this just a way to gather charges for rejected payments?

[dmytro @pqoqubbw]

animated icons i’ve been working on lately are now open source 🎉

let me know what you think about them and tag me if you decide to use them

new icons coming soon 👀

https://t.co/7zmLcwlmAb

[Bruno Rodrigues @brodriguesco]

It is with great joy that I announce today that our (together with @PhilippBauman15 ) package rix is now on CRAN:

https://t.co/6YkeXBbMSR

#RStats

[Andrew B. Collier @datawookie]

@robjama @gavinprm you were saying something similar.

[Andrew B. Collier @datawookie]

@_useRconf when will the videos from this year's conference be available?

[Andrew B. Collier @datawookie]

It's a grave mistake to overestimate the bandwidth of conference WiFi. It's 2024... why is this still a problem?

[Fathom Data @fathomdata]

The #BigBookofR has a new look. @fathomdata was honoured to help @OscarBaruffa move this #R resource gem from #Bookdown to #Quarto. Read more about this process on @datawookie's blog: https://t.co/B4IW7lZ9Cc

[Sketchplanations @sketchplanator]

The Village Venus effect can remind us that we often think within context and constraints without realising or considering what may be outside them. In that way, it can nudge us to think bigger or look outside our sphere of familiarity.

[Andrew B. Collier @datawookie]

@Barclays we're tired of getting statements for person who used to live at our address 5 years ago. And since you are unable/unwilling to stop sending these statements this is due warning that I will be publishing the statements on Facebook and Twitter when the next one arrives.

[Andrew B. Collier @datawookie]

@Olio_ex you are making this my fault? Your app sent me two simultaneous messages telling me that (1) there was NOTHING to collect and (2) there was SOMETHING to collect.

I suggest that you work out the bugs in the platform before summarily rejecting your faithful FWHs.

[Andrew B. Collier @datawookie]

@WestBerkshire you're putting the price of parking permits up from 30 to 50 GBP, a whopping 67% increase. Can we expect improved service delivery? Will you fix the holes in our street? Because putting a yellow line around them is not "fixed".

[Obsidian @obsdmd]

The Obsidian Canvas file format is now called JSON Canvas and has its own site, specification, and open source resources.

JSON Canvas can be implemented freely as an import, export, and storage format for any app or tool. All the resources associated with JSON Canvas are open source under the MIT license, and can be found on GitHub.

For the release of Obsidian Canvas we created the .canvas format with an open spec. We created this format because we felt it was essential to follow the principles that have guided us since the start. Your Obsidian data should always be stored locally, accessible offline, completely in your control, in open file formats that are easy to retrieve and read. For notes we achieve this by using plain text .md files with Markdown syntax, a widely supported format. However, infinite canvas data does not yet have a similarly established format.

While infinite canvas tools are not new, they have been quickly growing in popularity. The JSON Canvas format was created to in hopes of providing longevity, readability, interoperability, and extensibility to data created with infinite canvas apps. The format is designed to be easy to parse and give users ownership over their data.

The JSON Canvas spec is currently at version 1.0. The spec is relatively conservative, it does not support every feature that canvas apps may want to implement. However we think it is a useful starting point to build upon, and we plan to continue improving on it over time.

[Andrew B. Collier @datawookie]

@StandardBankZA @CleanupClaire @FNBSA "We are passionate about serving our clients..." @StandardBankZA I'm calling bullshit on this. You don't give a damn about your customers.

[Andrew B. Collier @datawookie]

@StandardBankZA @CleanupClaire @FNBSA Update from @StandardBankZA (paraphrasing): we're not very keen on offering you any kind of customer service, you just need to make an international call to our help desk and wait in the queue.

This is NOT customer service.