Welcome

After years of letting this domain sit around and collect dust, I've finally been motivated to create my personal web site.

Join my in my journey to travel the world, take awesome photographs, play around with some interesting software, and explore new technical concepts.

You can expect to see some more things soon, such as:

• More technical blog posts
• Recent projects I've been working on
• Photography gallery

Chat bot

You may have noticed the new AI chat bot on my home page. It's a work in progress and an early concept, so don't expect it to have every fact about me accurate.

AI model

The chat bot was created using the awesome DeepSeek-R1, the controversial but open source LLM that everyone's been talking about recently.

The model was trained with some basic prompt engineering, but I plan on more properly fine-tuning it after I set up PyTorch. I'm still on my LLM learning journey, so I may post more about my progress.

The chat bot LLM is running on a self-hosted Ollama server without a GPU. This is why it runs very slowly. If I were to rent a server (or k8s node) with a GPU, it would drastically improve the performance but would end up costing me more money than I'm willing to pay. I also don't want to use their API because I don't quite trust it.