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Thank you for the recommendation, and so far, it has been working great (within reason, haha). It doesn’t kill my rig when thinking, but it definitely needs more training wheels to nudge it towards the goal.

It seemed to get the idea of my prompt to extend the footer info (I want it to show the model abilities like tool calling or reasoning where the context percent thing is), made a plan and wrote the file, but then got hung up on implementation because it couldn’t figure out how Pi renders that part of the UI in Powershell

So possibly trying a different terminal might help on that front, haha

Fully agreed, and my hope is as open models grow and change, that getting some amount of this working on Pro-sumer hardware will be more attainable.

But certainly seems like we are a few years away from that, sadly.

Am I also screwed in being able to train my own small model or adjust another one with such a non-workhorse PC?

Now that I’m dipping more into this space, am gonna see what I can upgrade with the motherboard I have, but RAM pricing as it is, I’ll need to be smart about when I upgrade.

I very much appreciate the frank response, as it makes me feel less defeated at knowing my understanding of how it should work is not the full issue, hahaha

Is there any hope for people that cant even run 27B parameters, Qwen3.6 or otherwise? Are there any quantized models that do well with tool calling at smaller parameter sizes?

I do not have a crazy rig, a modest gaming one at that, but in trying to understand more about agents and their capabilities, I am SOL with my 16 GB of RAM and 8GB of VRAM. I can get most small, non tool calling models to perform well, but I've had major issues with anything over 9B doing anything more than reasoning (egregiously slow at higher parameter counts).

And so far, I cant get even Pi to extend itself or do any meaningful work with any of the models I currently can get to run.

The CrafsMan is great, a lovely voice to listen to as he works, and makes a bunch of fun diy crafts. A good amount of videos to work thru:

https://www.youtube.com/c/TheCrafsMan

And for the curiosity of those who are running open models locally, are there any open models that offer anything even looking like parity with commercial coding offerings? Or is there still more time for that to surface?

To be fair, I believe this protocol existed before Google’s thing, if I remember right.

Honestly not expecting to see an answer to a question I had for myself and other residential appraisers who want to have our own AVMs to run thru, that we can develop ourselves!

Was at a conference last week where I was trying to figure out where to start with automated value models, and this is perfect.

Then this might serve as an interesting opportunity for you to sell leads or direct them towards the info you’re scraping from.

Tho if it works as free advertisement on either side, that’s a win-win.

Zillow, OpenDoor, Redfin, and Realtor.com all pay for API access to the largest Multiple Listing Systems (except for Realtor because they are the ones that are selling the access).

They then use their own “special” algorithms to give their price estimate based on “relevant” factors by what you are describing.

Your real issue is that the agents putting these homes on the market have a financial stake in it selling, and own copyright to all the pictures and descriptions of their listings. So you have more liability if you are scraping their info.

Another issue is who is the target audience for this? Most serious homebuyers are going to use an agent or a trusted partner for a transaction, and are not excited about compounding layers of hurdles to purchase a home

I am a residential real estate appraiser in the US and real estate technologist, which is why I bring up these points.

  Location: South West US
  Remote: Preferred 
  Willing to relocate: For the right company
  Technologies: PHP, XML, JavaScript, some Powershell
  Résumé/CV: Can supply Residential Appraisal License as needed
  Email: brian.lovejoy@realmetricsaz.com

As one of few young people in my profession, there is much potential in making a fairly opaque industry better known, and I’ve seen very few of my older peers interested in sharing the knowledge we hold (which is also why it is so hard to get into this profession).

I work full time in my geographic area, but I am able to set my schedule to my liking, so if I am someone who seems worthwhile to talk with, don’t hesitate to reach out!

I am curious, with the way you are using “<1% are going to pay for music on here”, is that to be read as “no more than 1% are going to pay for music on here” or that “less than 1% are going to pay for music on here”?

Is your point that people aren’t willing to pay for things if they have a choice not to?

Or is it that independent artists should be grateful that people see their work at all and that “most” people will just think they are a grifting sociopath?

Not sure what your issue with my comment is, but I’m interested in what you meant, as I feel I’m missing context that only you have at the moment.

Because a person might be willing:

-to directly support artists with buying the albums or songs at full price, rather than letting Spotify barely pay artists anything for their music (especially independent ones without industry connections)

-knowing you own your library and that once you’ve purchased media, there is nothing to take it away other than the sands of time taking back its silicate

-one does not need unlimited access to songs they will never hear, especially when natural discoverability on Spotify is so so versus trawling through sites like Bandcamp, Earmilk, RCRDLBL (I know it doesn’t exist anymore), or other places where new artists show their work in a way that Spotify doesn’t provide

Wonder if this will muddy the waters for searching about info for the Gemini protocol..

I have no use for machine learning like this, and definitely not what I thought when I saw the headline. Hope the pivot works well for alphabet, but odd nonetheless.

Nicole is great, and someone who is a fantastic resource for all the cool ways people use the software!

Her and a bunch of others are active on the Obsidian discord, and from the TTRPG specific Obsidian group, they released a fantastic resource in: https://obsidianttrpgtutorials.com/Obsidian+TTRPG+Tutorials/...

It has a lot there, and not every DM needs everything in here. However, I love this resource as another way to understand all the different things you could do with and without plugins.

While not my personal knowledge base yet, my personal use case for Obsidian is probably what gives me the most joy for it: as a Dungeon Master’s Worldbuilding Notes / Interactive DM Screen

Where I have used pen and paper in the past to track everything, Obsidian has supercharged my ability to sit down and flesh out my homebrew world in a way that was hard to do for myself prior. On top of the ease of writing and linking together notes, it also allows me to simultaneously tie in my pre-written lore with the session notes I take, so I don’t forget stuff that happens or that my players are supposed to pick up on.

I’ve also encouraged my players to use it, so that if they are taking notes on the right things, they can piece together stuff or make their own assumptions to inform how they choose to play.

It works for us, I get it’s not for everyone. But versus my old DM Binder in OneNote, it works perfectly for my needs!

On a similar, yet separate note, I’ve found the folder/note structure to be conducive to learning new TTRPG rules and essentially having my personal SRDs for different games (currently chunking my way through the Shadowrun 6e SRD and making my own notes or expansions on it to make it make more sense).

I think they were working on an Obsidian plug-in at some point, and got some primitive functionality up, but don’t know what the state of that is currently.

So possible rendering point, though I guess falls under browser engine

Can agree this one is fantastic, and you don’t need to be polyamorous or in a poly relationship to get something out of it. I would recommend it for anyone who wants to be more secure in non-amorous relationships as well, as the stuff in here could easily be applied to those situations.

You could probably find other books on attachment theory, but the application of those ideas in a book that is based on the individual and how to navigate your own attachment issues in the midst of multiple relationships is great.

That visual pun was my Typography professor's favorite joke as we were learning about kerning, haha.

So runs a virtual machine on any type of hardware?

I like the idea of computing that works anywhere and is not locked in by vendor, but it seems like this is early enough that they are light on specifics, from my cursory glance.

Not to my knowledge at this point in time, though I wish there was. Gopher and other small web tech seem closer to the owned platform idea.

I would love not having to rent my platform from anyone, but our current system does not support owned domains for a non-technical user who does not have the tens of thousands of dollars to apply for owning their own TLD.

I’m not at my home Obsidian vault, but now I’m curious if there is a way to make this work within the theme settings for Obsidian.

If anyone else gets to it before I do, let me know if it needs some reworking. I’ll post my findings in a reply to this comment once I have the ability!

This is very much up the alley of what I was looking for. Thank you!

Actually very up the alley I’m thinking, but still would like to scratch the itch of rolling my own solution.

Definitely checking it out and might have to subscribe for a bit!

Ideally: -Sketching/CAD tools for geographic features (I can imagine a 2D view for more cartographic top view, but being able to translate elevations to a simple 3d view to allow reference for myself and other concept artists in the group to build off of), could also imagine a way to buy prints of their maps and gain revenue from that.

-Ability to populate city level information (where the nearest inns are, closest blacksmith, etc ) from database

-Definitely a light paid tier, cause my ideal consumer profile is DMs like my friends and I who may pay for D&D Beyond, but aren’t trying to add another subscription to the roster. Everyone has access to the tooling, but maybe the paid tier is for storage and online sharing?

-Ability to print to PDF or take the files into other formats

All I could think of at the moment

You just got yourself a new subscriber, cause I’m trying to get back into music curation and DJing like I used to when I was in college, and this is right up my alley as far as genre and finding fresh tracks!

I’m so thankful for you and the child post to yours that brought up “Let’s Game It Out”! As someone who enjoys breaking games for fun and profit, it is delightful to watch him do things the game never thought to correct for (Thinking specifically about how he’s helped Hydroneer fix in game economy bugs, haha)

Another person who does similar gameplay, but more in depth is a YouTuber called Ambiguous Amphibian. Imagine the depths of where Josh is willing to go, and then add a layer of someone talking about philosophy and tying it back into the game they are playing. Would very much recommend if you are into LGIO!

I can tell you from the farm my wife and I operate (currently in our 7th in game year), you will eventually become the giant factory farm to get to the end game.

But that’s why I love Stardew Valley in a different way than my wife. It hits the comfy aspect for her, a light dating sim, plus the combat is light enough that she’s gotten good at it there than she does in other games. For me, I get to optimize farm layout and selling strategies (like me realizing after all this time in-game that Slime Eggs are a high dollar item and totally should have gotten a slime hutch much sooner)

I appreciate the response, and while my initial comment might have been derailed by my cynicism, you and your team have made a really cool app! I’ve been away from the internet while on vacation and hadn’t gotten to see this.

If I may, what was the push behind bringing this out? Curious if this was a personal thing within the team or something that came out of deeper work internally.

As an audio nerd and dev, always glad to see innovative work that touches on those passions of mine simultaneously.

Looking through the site and documentation, this might be exactly what I’m looking for in a self-hosted solution I could open up to my network of friends.

I’m already imagining how to set up a game server to support our different TTRPG sessions, and developing against this platform with that in mind seems like a nice side project to work on.

Appreciate the link, @memorable !