How I Solved Daily Crashes on My Low-RAM AWS Lightsail Server Running a personal project on a budget-friendly server like AWS Lightsail is common, but it can come with stability challenges. One of my 512MB Lightsail instance, running the Grav CMS, began crashing like clockwork every single day. The monitoring graphs were misleading, showing only […]
The Logitech MX Anywhere 3 Click-Hold Failure: A Definitive Technical Analysis of Root Causes and Solutions
Introduction The Pervasive Problem The Logitech MX series, including the popular MX Anywhere 3 and MX Master models, represents the pinnacle of the company’s productivity-focused peripherals. They are marketed as premium devices, commanding a high price point justified by advanced features, ergonomic design, and promised reliability. However, a significant and pervasive issue has emerged across […]
Stable Diffusion : Generating artifact from a picture
Starting from a picture that I downloaded from the internet. I will demonstrate how to use ControlNet to generate new pictures. Next select and use the v1.5-pruned-emaonly.chpt checkpoint and the Euler a sampling method. Both of this you can play around and select other checkpoints and sampling methods. What’s more important is the CFG scale, […]
Stable Diffusion Q&A
Comparative Analysis of Niche Large Language Models: Yi, OpenHermes, Qwen, Orca-mini, Zephyrs, CodeLLaMA, and More
As the demand for specialized functionalities in AI increases, a plethora of large language models (LLMs) are being developed, each tailored to particular niches. This article delves into several such models: Yi, OpenHermes, Qwen, Orca-mini, Zephyrs, and CodeLLaMA, and discusses a few other notable models. 1. Yi Yi: Developed with a focus on multilingual capabilities, […]
Comparing Different Large Language Models: LLaMA, Phi, OpenAI, and Mistral
In recent years, the development of large language models (LLMs) has significantly advanced, with various organizations releasing models tailored for different purposes. In this article, we will explore the differences between several prominent LLMs: Facebook’s LLaMA (versions 2 and 3), Anthropic’s Phi (version 3), OpenAI’s models, and AI21 Labs’ Mistral. 1. LLaMA (Large Language Model […]
After Anaconda installation, conda command not found in path
After successfully install anaconda to manage the python environment on a Mac, conda command execution at the prompt returns: Ensure that the following is in .zshrc file.
What happened to the original terminal after you have installed iTerm2 with Powerlevel10K?
To prettify the terminal, we replaces the Mac builtin terminal with iTerm2 and Powerlevel10K. However, right after installation you might realized that your original terminal is broken like the following: The reason for the above is that we have the wrong font settings for the original terminal app. You see from the image that I […]
How to have nice and colorful Mac Terminal ~ Steps to configure iTerms2 and OMZ
Step 1 : Install iTerms2 Assuming that you already have homebrew installed. Run the following command: If you do not have homebrew, Download iTerms2 here. iTerms is a lot more colorful than the default terminal, with this download your terminal will looks much more alive. Step 2: Install Oh My Zsh Go to Oh My […]
Mystery resolved: Hugo sitemap.xml rendering localhost instead of domain name
Started playing around with Hugo over the weekend. It is really a super fast and well implemented rendering engine. When I deploy the website to the production environment and submit the sitemap to Google Search console, I get the following error: After checking the various locations, I realized that I will have to be very […]