Picoclaw: A mighty ultra-light agentPicoclaw was inspired by the nanobot project — a small agent with functionality similar to the popular OpenClaw project. Picoclaw is an agent harness: it orchestrates an LLM within an infinite loop, aMar 21, 2026·6 min read
Interactive Hiking Maps with Datasette and Google CloudI created an interactive map of my hikes using the powerful Datasette tool by Simon Willison. The result was an intuitive, easy-to-use map that links each hike to a full report on my blog. Many interesting technologies are at play. The underlying dat...Jan 14, 2025·5 min read
Predicting gold prices with SARIMAXI had a little fun with data from the St. Louis Fed (FRED). Note: not investment advice I collected 54 years of gold price data starting 9/30/71 (end of the US federal government fiscal year after gold was allowed to float). I also collected the 10-y...Dec 22, 2024·2 min read
Evolving an 8 Queens solution with PyGADPyGAD is a python library implementing a genetic algorithm to solve problems. It was created by Ahmed Gad (many thanks!). Complete docs are here. One of the examples used to demonstrate the library is the 8 Queens problem. This was my solution using ...Apr 28, 2024·6 min read
Running Nvidia's new ChatWithRTX AINvidia just released a beta application for Windows called ChatWithRTX. It uses a local LLM to chat offline with your own files (currently .txt, .pdf, and .doc). The system requirements are Windows 11 and an Nvidia 30xx or 40xx video card with at lea...Feb 16, 2024·5 min read
Small BeginningsMy interest in AI goes back to the start of my career in (ugh) 1985. The IBM PC had just become a thing, but I was programming on a mainframe. In the early 90s, I toyed with "expert systems", poorly performing knowledge bases. Neural networks had wel...Dec 16, 2023·2 min read
