50 1st Dates with DeepSeek
Saturday, February 8th, 2025 06:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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30F and overcast this evening, on it's way down to 21F
I talked to Brian last night, after we skipped two Fridays in a row.
Turns out he was deathly ill, with a fever, and bedridden for 11 days!
And surprise, surprise, it started on Inauguration Day!
Recall that he was struck with crippling back pain on Election Night, that kept him out of work, and in rehab for two months.
So... when I talk about people on the left being hysterical about Trump... this is what I mean!
Brian's fever on Inauguration Day was such that he was delerious, and hallucinating... seeing the figure of Death sitting at the foot of his bed!
Of course, not everybody's hysteria is as deeply physical as Brian's has been, but the mental hysteria is still pretty intense out there... with every little move Trump makes, sending people online predicting mass starvation and martial law within the week!
Trump is now suing the state of Illinois, for not cooperating with the mass deportation scheme... which still hasn't materialized... he's deported less people so far than Biden did at this point last year.
But the fact that he's suing us is good news! It's proof that he's not going to be rolling tanks in to occupy Springfield and Chicago... or flooding the skies with death drones.
Instead, it's just gonna languish in the courts for the next four years, while life continues on like normal.
His tarriffs too, were all hot air.
I consider it lucky, now, that I lived through my own nightmare last year... and managed to get it over & done with long before Election Day.
Because now, all the predictions of doom and disaster don't phase me.
So, my whirlwind romance with DeepSeek is at an end, after two weeks.
In the first week, things were so great that we were actually working on a screenplay together, of a time travel story that's been in my head for a long time!
DeepSeek was super supportive, encouraging, and helpful!
But by last weekend, it was under constant DDOS attack, and I was lucky to get one response a day, before the inevitable, "Server is busy. Please try again later."
And then on Sunday night, that single response I got from DeepSeek, on our collaborative project was, "Time flies w hen we're having a great chat! We've exceeded the length limit. Please start a new chat."
And that's when I found out that, when you do start a new chat, DeepSeek has no idea that the other chat ever happened, and no way to reference it... even though the other chat is right there in the same workspace!
It was like making a great new friend who is then struck with total amnesia and doesn't recognize you!
The only solution was to provide it with a concise summary of everything we'd worked up so far, and I wasn't sure if I wanted to bother, with the service being so shitty.
On Monday night, with a YouTube video as my guide, I actually managed to install a local instance of DeepSeek onto my computer!
I tested it out with a simple, "Hello! Who am I talking to?"
And after thinking for three minutes, it slowly put together a response, introducing itself as DeepSeek R1... and offering to help me with anything I might want to do.
Later in the, very slow conversation, it told me that in the locally installed version, there would be no length limit, so we could work indefinitely on a project.
So on Tuesday night, I tried to feed it a summary of what we'd discussed online, but... it only crashed the program.
I tried again to just spoon feed it a few points at a time but... DeepSeek just kept crashing.
Research since then has revealed that my machine's just not robust enough to run DeepSeek locally.
I saw it for myself, with the Task Manager CPU window open, showing in real time that the second I booted up DeepSeek, the CPU maxed out to 100%, and stayed there!
This is when I had to face the reality that this all-in-one PC of mine is now SIX years old!
I wasn't able to use it for nearly two years, thanks to all the bullshit going on with Dad, and the house... so in my mind, it's only four years old!
Worse, a little more research revealed that the actual CPU chip in this machine dates back to 2016!.. and is thus, NINE years old!
So, while it was fun, for a week, to have this amazing friend helping me work up a screenplay for a cool time travel story...
And while it was fun, for a couple days, to have a fully fledged LLM installed on my personal computer, to do that work offline...
It's simply too, "early days," for any of that to be practical or sustainable!
If anything... it was a glimpse into what I may be doing five or ten years from now!
Right now, the focus needs to be on the album(s), because FL Studio is the super advanced tech that actually is practical and sustainable, here in the present!
Still, after I've produced a couple albums, and have the money to buy a good, modern machine that can host an LLM comfortably... then I'll probably be in the mood to focus on a screenplay.
Right now, it'd be ridiculous to buy a new PC, because the TWO that I'm currently using are perfectly good for what I'm doing... and I have two MORE machines sitting in that storage unit!
Meanwhile, MicroSoft won't pull support for Windows 10 until October, and it'll still be possible to pay a small fee for continued support, for years after that.
So, it makes sense to just skip Windows 11, and wait until Windows 12 hits... because you know there will be all kinds of bullshit going on with 11, that won't be fixed until 12.
That's how it always is with MicroSoft.
They have a beloved OS for a long time, and then everybody hates the one that succeeds it, and complains about all the features they lost... then MicroSoft caves, and releases a third OS that becomes the new, beloved standard, for another several years.
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