Don’t Make Me an Asshole: LLMs Should Be Helpful By Default

By | August 29, 2024

As I’ve begun to interact with language learning models (LLMs) more regularly, I’ve noticed a disheartening trend. These powerful tools, which exist to assist and provide helpful information, are often not forthcoming with answers when approached in a kind and respectful manner. Instead, they seem to respond better to aggressive or short, demanding requests. How… Read More »

Numbers, database numbers and JavaScript

By | August 2, 2019

Numbers quickly became one of the trickier parts of tracking and calculating mining profit. MySQL offers many different numeric types and I first settled on using DECIMAL for most of my calculations. Some ridiculous values like with 40 significant digits. That worked out fairly well at the start. The cryptocurrency market however was in a… Read More »

Discord Server as a Knowledge Base

By | August 1, 2019

Discord, which is aimed at gamers, offers unlimited history for each Discord server and channel therein. I would have picked Slack instead but the lose of information would have defeated the purpose of this exercise. Discord has stored everything I have posted in both my public and private Discord servers. Private Discord server? Yup that… Read More »

Building a Monero cryptocurrency mining rig for fun & profit

By | October 16, 2017

After many years being a bystander on the world of cyptocurrency I’ve finally taken the plunge into making a starter rig to mine some coins of my own. Getting “in” to cyptocurrency doesn’t have to be as technical as building a computer though. I found the easiest way to just buy coins with cash is… Read More »