Category Archives: A. I.

How to force locally run Ollama AI models to use all your CPU or GPU cores

By | December 16, 2024

Experimenting with different Ollama sourced AI models I discovered that sometimes in a very strange way my CPU or GPU resources are not used efficiently. By looking at the way Ollama models are packed we see that they are basically very similar to docker images where a full environment is specified. For example we can… Read More »

AI take on: Top 10 reasons why IT sucks in Europe

By | October 16, 2024

In my previous post https://blog.voina.org/gold-reddit-comments-top-10-reasons-why-it-sucks-in-europe/ I already presented the best Reddit post about the hot topic of EU lagging behind in innovation and technology due to red tape and over-regulation. Just for fun I asked the new AI model from Nvidia, the open sourced “nvidia/Llama-3.1-Nemotron-70B-Instruct-HF”, what is its opinion about the topic. The result top… Read More »

Darn robots taking our jobs

By | March 14, 2017

All this talk about robots or A.I. taking our jobs starts to be funny. Same old story. So Bill Gates wants them darn robots getting taxed, really I was not expecting this from the guy who helped to probably replace the most number of people with computers. My opinion is summed by the following “urban… Read More »

#Fakenews : is #Matrix already born ?

By | March 6, 2017

Fake news is a fact these days. You can win elections (see Trump) , you can invade neighbours (see Ukraine), you can crash a stock value or increase a stock value all aided by fake news. In an interesting article from Scientific American When the Big Lie Meets Big Data we see that the same… Read More »

Blog Links: Scientific American “Will Democracy Survive Big Data and Artificial Intelligence?”

By | March 5, 2017

A must read about how big data and artificial intelligence influences and will influence society. It is a series of articles in one feature article that tries to tackle the new big data revolution that is coming. I like how it touches the controversy of “big nudge” (influencing choise through the big data). This is… Read More »

IoT: House climate monitoring

By | February 24, 2017

It is very important for me to monitor the climate in the house. The solution that I have chosen is the Netatmo Weather Station for Smartphones Amazon DE , Amazon UK , Amazon US features: – main sensor that measures temperature, CO2 levels, humidity and noise levels. – indoor sensors that measure temperature, CO2 levels… Read More »

IoT: Car monitoring

By | February 9, 2017

Is not enough to monitor the house you need something for the car also. He er the solution has two components: – the hardware: Bluetooth Diagnose Interface Software ELM-327 Canbus OBD 2 Plugs Car – the software: Dash – Drive Smart The hardware is a simple OBD device that I keep plugged in my OBD… Read More »

IoT: House Alarm

By | February 9, 2017

An IoT house alarm is just great. You get all the control and monitoring from a mobile device you always carry around. I have chosen as a solution: iSmartAlarm ISA3G Home Security Alarm System Features: – has a build in node station with siren – supports contact sensors: iSmartAlarm Accessories – Contact Sensor – supports… Read More »

IoT: House climate control

By | February 9, 2017

This is one of the best applications for IoT devices and I think one of the first applications I know of. An intelligent thermostat that controls the heating in the house. My solution is based on NETATMO Thermostat for Smartphone/NTH01 NetAtmo web based dashboard: NetAtmo monthly report: Features: – is compatible with any gas heater… Read More »

IoT: Intelligent power sockets

By | February 9, 2017

There are old devices that do not have the logic in them so they are not intelligent devices. This legacy hardware can be controlled using intelligent power sockets. My solution was to get a bunch of Belkin WEMO sockets. They are fully supported by IFTTT so lost of nice use for them. I use them… Read More »