西肯居士 (Adam)
@coldscholarstudio.org
Heterodoxist, 好古者, quasi-三教士 Lover of Literature, History, Books and various fields of learning.
Improvised comfort food (am a lazy, inexperienced chef with limited ingredients)
September 16, 2026 at 11:59 PM
Improvised comfort food (am a lazy, inexperienced chef with limited ingredients)
Arguably not as cool as the OCR project, but still helpful. Creating a setup where I connect to a more advanced open-source LLM model using the free-tier Groq cloud service (different from and 7 years older than the similarly named service). Plenty of issues with the translations as-is but cool.
September 16, 2026 at 10:37 PM
Arguably not as cool as the OCR project, but still helpful. Creating a setup where I connect to a more advanced open-source LLM model using the free-tier Groq cloud service (different from and 7 years older than the similarly named service). Plenty of issues with the translations as-is but cool.
Guess my system still has a few kinks to work out. Most are where everything belongs though. Not bad for a local, low-mid power (I guess?) system.
September 16, 2026 at 7:09 PM
Guess my system still has a few kinks to work out. Most are where everything belongs though. Not bad for a local, low-mid power (I guess?) system.
Although crude and wonky, this system works surprisingly well. Local Qwen model runs open-source OCR software page by page and then checks the flagged the results. These then come back to me to correct and create datasheets, whereupon I do some, make a post about it, and then focus on other things.
September 16, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Although crude and wonky, this system works surprisingly well. Local Qwen model runs open-source OCR software page by page and then checks the flagged the results. These then come back to me to correct and create datasheets, whereupon I do some, make a post about it, and then focus on other things.
This tech is really amazing. Even if you can read everything easily on this image, being able to transcribe it this easily is pretty darn useful. （集古像赞）（明）
Text (it's laudatory verse about the Yellow Emperor aka Yellow Thearch aka Huangdi 黃帝):
黃帝
帝生神靈
卓冠首出
爰制器用
爰造律曆
天地萬物
範圍曲成
混沌既分
漸登文明
Text (it's laudatory verse about the Yellow Emperor aka Yellow Thearch aka Huangdi 黃帝):
黃帝
帝生神靈
卓冠首出
爰制器用
爰造律曆
天地萬物
範圍曲成
混沌既分
漸登文明
September 15, 2026 at 1:43 PM
This tech is really amazing. Even if you can read everything easily on this image, being able to transcribe it this easily is pretty darn useful. （集古像赞）（明）
Text (it's laudatory verse about the Yellow Emperor aka Yellow Thearch aka Huangdi 黃帝):
黃帝
帝生神靈
卓冠首出
爰制器用
爰造律曆
天地萬物
範圍曲成
混沌既分
漸登文明
Text (it's laudatory verse about the Yellow Emperor aka Yellow Thearch aka Huangdi 黃帝):
黃帝
帝生神靈
卓冠首出
爰制器用
爰造律曆
天地萬物
範圍曲成
混沌既分
漸登文明
That feeling when your AI assistant starts spawning lots of subagents you didn't expect. Even worse (imho) than it getting stuck in a loop. Granted, there are methods/cases where lots of subagents is great.
September 14, 2026 at 12:43 AM
That feeling when your AI assistant starts spawning lots of subagents you didn't expect. Even worse (imho) than it getting stuck in a loop. Granted, there are methods/cases where lots of subagents is great.
Finding this feels like walking into the spells and wands store as a muggle. As a muggle, I will probably not be able to actually use any of it.
September 13, 2026 at 8:25 PM
Finding this feels like walking into the spells and wands store as a muggle. As a muggle, I will probably not be able to actually use any of it.
阿弥陀佛！This book from a Japanese Buddhist organization can be ordered (free, last i checked) 1 per household. They are printed in English and other languages (including bilingual editions). This book (not this copy, an English one) made me a lifelong fan of Buddhism (among other traditions)
September 13, 2026 at 5:27 PM
阿弥陀佛！This book from a Japanese Buddhist organization can be ordered (free, last i checked) 1 per household. They are printed in English and other languages (including bilingual editions). This book (not this copy, an English one) made me a lifelong fan of Buddhism (among other traditions)
Fun fact: Adam Smith (1723-1790) was an advocate for regulating the banking industry. (Wealth of Nations, Book 2, Chapter 2). I'm not familiar with economics but most people who parrot about him seem to be informed by stereotype (a form of delusion).
September 13, 2026 at 4:07 PM
Fun fact: Adam Smith (1723-1790) was an advocate for regulating the banking industry. (Wealth of Nations, Book 2, Chapter 2). I'm not familiar with economics but most people who parrot about him seem to be informed by stereotype (a form of delusion).
one of a bunch of experimental private print jobs
September 13, 2026 at 1:44 PM
one of a bunch of experimental private print jobs
Yes, I believe that even if my attempt to use local LLMs sputters out, it will still have been worth the ride for what I learn about the technology and other things besides. Still hopeful that I just need to build the right machinery for this project (which is being pantsed more than plotted.
September 13, 2026 at 12:22 PM
Yes, I believe that even if my attempt to use local LLMs sputters out, it will still have been worth the ride for what I learn about the technology and other things besides. Still hopeful that I just need to build the right machinery for this project (which is being pantsed more than plotted.
My experience with trying to use local LLM's is kinda like coffee. It's the same stuff whether you make it at home or get it in a cafe. Except at the cafe it's way fancier and they have all these nice things that make the coffee experience way different.
September 13, 2026 at 11:26 AM
My experience with trying to use local LLM's is kinda like coffee. It's the same stuff whether you make it at home or get it in a cafe. Except at the cafe it's way fancier and they have all these nice things that make the coffee experience way different.
Used ~10-11k context tokens
September 13, 2026 at 12:54 AM
Used ~10-11k context tokens
Probably going to spend a weak trying to change the settings on how/if at all to render the glosses/pinyin the target output...
September 13, 2026 at 12:52 AM
Probably going to spend a weak trying to change the settings on how/if at all to render the glosses/pinyin the target output...
Easy enough to find if you Google 'polyglottic three character classic'
September 12, 2026 at 11:11 PM
Easy enough to find if you Google 'polyglottic three character classic'
Somehow I doubt this was widely used or effective. Question is, if so, why go through all that trouble illustrating it and adding an entry?
September 12, 2026 at 11:08 PM
Somehow I doubt this was widely used or effective. Question is, if so, why go through all that trouble illustrating it and adding an entry?
Not saying the output will be any good, but it doesn't touch my (spent) token limits... get it while it's hot?
September 12, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Not saying the output will be any good, but it doesn't touch my (spent) token limits... get it while it's hot?
Me trying to figure out how to make a single paragraph come back the way I want it, 48 hours later.
September 12, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Me trying to figure out how to make a single paragraph come back the way I want it, 48 hours later.
西郊泣麟 - captures the sense of how it feels watching our society and institutions over the past decade or so. We should all be more inclusive and socially engaged in ways that bring us all together. There's something wrong when two halves of ones society become so bitterly divided.
September 11, 2026 at 6:24 PM
西郊泣麟 - captures the sense of how it feels watching our society and institutions over the past decade or so. We should all be more inclusive and socially engaged in ways that bring us all together. There's something wrong when two halves of ones society become so bitterly divided.
I feel like 儒行 (at least the 孔子家语 version; it is also in the 礼记) is way underrated in early philosophical narratives
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季孫以告哀公。公從之。孔子既至，舍。哀公館焉。〈就孔子舍。〉公自阼階，孔子賓階，升堂立侍。
公曰：「夫子之服，其儒服與？」
孔子對曰：「丘少居魯，衣逢掖之衣。〈深衣之褒大也。〉長居宋，冠章甫之冠。丘聞之，君子之學也，博其服以鄉，〈隨其鄉也。〉丘未知其為儒服也。」
公曰：「敢問儒行？」
孔子曰：「略言之，則不能終其物；悉數之，則留仆未可以對。
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季孫以告哀公。公從之。孔子既至，舍。哀公館焉。〈就孔子舍。〉公自阼階，孔子賓階，升堂立侍。
公曰：「夫子之服，其儒服與？」
孔子對曰：「丘少居魯，衣逢掖之衣。〈深衣之褒大也。〉長居宋，冠章甫之冠。丘聞之，君子之學也，博其服以鄉，〈隨其鄉也。〉丘未知其為儒服也。」
公曰：「敢問儒行？」
孔子曰：「略言之，則不能終其物；悉數之，則留仆未可以對。
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September 11, 2026 at 6:04 PM
I feel like 儒行 (at least the 孔子家语 version; it is also in the 礼记) is way underrated in early philosophical narratives
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季孫以告哀公。公從之。孔子既至，舍。哀公館焉。〈就孔子舍。〉公自阼階，孔子賓階，升堂立侍。
公曰：「夫子之服，其儒服與？」
孔子對曰：「丘少居魯，衣逢掖之衣。〈深衣之褒大也。〉長居宋，冠章甫之冠。丘聞之，君子之學也，博其服以鄉，〈隨其鄉也。〉丘未知其為儒服也。」
公曰：「敢問儒行？」
孔子曰：「略言之，則不能終其物；悉數之，則留仆未可以對。
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季孫以告哀公。公從之。孔子既至，舍。哀公館焉。〈就孔子舍。〉公自阼階，孔子賓階，升堂立侍。
公曰：「夫子之服，其儒服與？」
孔子對曰：「丘少居魯，衣逢掖之衣。〈深衣之褒大也。〉長居宋，冠章甫之冠。丘聞之，君子之學也，博其服以鄉，〈隨其鄉也。〉丘未知其為儒服也。」
公曰：「敢問儒行？」
孔子曰：「略言之，則不能終其物；悉數之，則留仆未可以對。
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How to keep tinkering long after running outta Codex juice...
September 11, 2026 at 5:19 PM
How to keep tinkering long after running outta Codex juice...
Needed a little validation.
September 11, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Needed a little validation.
Maybe it's self-serving, but surely learning the GUI is more useful for teaching others and I'm no power user anyway, right? 😶🌫️
September 11, 2026 at 11:11 AM
Maybe it's self-serving, but surely learning the GUI is more useful for teaching others and I'm no power user anyway, right? 😶🌫️