Ronnie Diaz
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How to setup qwen coder 2.5 LLM for local dev on Windows in four steps
There is also a llama.cpp chat cli if you wanted to communicate directly which is useful for general testing, benchmarking and making sure your hardware is detected properly. Now let’s talk dev tools! Claude Code CLI Fastest setup/least steps and… Continue reading
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Comparing Text Similarity between two sentences using Python: Part 1
This is Part 1 in a series covering NLP (Natural Language Processing) which progresses through a real-world problem that I recently encountered. I thought this would be a good topic to write since it is relatable to many online businesses… Continue reading
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Java DS & Algo Quick Reference
This reference is not comprehensive of the entire language by any means and is intended as a quick refresher primarily on DS & Algos which you already know the fundamentals for. The topics within this guide are commonly vetted during… Continue reading
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Python Interviewing Quick Reference Guide (a.k.a. “cheat sheet”)
PEP8 style guide: https://peps.python.org/pep-0008/. Top 3 style guidance – use 4 space indents, lower camel case functions and variables, 79 char width (72 for docstrings). I use double quotes for strings so I don’t have to reprogram my brain when… Continue reading
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Run Local LLMs with ollama on Windows
Quickstart Instructions for doze: Manual/GGUF Approach: 4. Create using the model file, run: ollama create dolphin-llama3 -f dolphin.llama3.ModelInfo and you should see “transferring model data” then some hashes and manifest data and a final “success” 5. then to send text… Continue reading
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The Mountains We Climb
First Published Jan 21, 2024. Reflecting back on 2023, it was a year of exploration. For me, I can bucketize my years into growth or exploration, recovery, execution or stability. You might be thinking this a reductionist view on life,… Continue reading
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SyntaxError: (unicode error) ‘unicodeescape’ codec can’t decode bytes in position truncated \UXXXXXXXX escape
This is a common error in python when you are reading from a file and have specified a file path String. You can usually fix this by placing an ‘r’ in the front of your string to change it to… Continue reading
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Focus
For over 6 years, the title of this site was – “Fraction of the Blogosphere”. It was fitting when I first created it and for years that followed.. One thought I had is to transform this site to accommodate… Continue reading
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heroku cheat sheet quick start
#note requires java 8. add the ppa repo for oracle and install this if you dont have it already. check your local with: java -version #create auth token for subsequent commands heroku login #from within a local git cloned app… Continue reading
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javac invalid target release maven ant intellij netbeans eclipse
You may see the following error when running maven or ant command or from intellij: javac: invalid target release: 1.8 This occurs because you are running a build target for a version of java that you do not have set… Continue reading
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