Esoteric LLM is a useful experiment wrapped in an unusual domain: a 9-billion-parameter language model fine-tuned on 22 books about tarot, kabbalah, hermeticism, alchemy, the I Ching, astrology, and gnosticism. The full training run took about 11 hours, and the …
Esoteric LLM: Fine-Tuning a 9B Model on Tarot, Kabbalah, and Alchemy for $2 Read more »
markdown.new turns any public URL into clean Markdown by prepending one prefix: https://markdown.new/https://ravlik.com/2026/05/01/how-to-create-a-personalized-song-in-2-minutes-2. For AI coding agents, that is often more useful than a scraper, a browser automation script, or another dependency. This article explains where the trick saves context, …
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Telegram bot @singingcard2025_bot generates personalized AI songs as gifts and has integrated Telegram’s built-in Affiliate Program. Channel owners and bloggers earn 10% of every purchase in Stars — payouts are handled automatically through Telegram’s infrastructure, with no contracts, invoices, or …
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Alibaba’s latest flagship model Qwen 3.7 Max, released on May 21, 2026, is positioned as a purpose-built AI for the agentic era. The model supports both standard and reasoning (thinking) modes, and ranks in the top 15 across coding, math, …
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A new class of open-source projects is emerging in 2026: developers feed AI coding agents old game binaries, custom scripts, and decades-old documentation — and get back fully working applications. Legends of Future Past (1992), Disney Infinity (2013), FutureCop: LAPD …
The World Bank forecasts a 24% rise in global energy prices in 2026, driven by the Strait of Hormuz crisis — the largest oil supply disruption in recorded history. This article examines what changes when electricity becomes genuinely expensive, and …
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The concept is simple: instead of an image or a voice message, you send someone a song written specifically for them. It sticks with people. The problem used to be that this either cost a lot (commissioning a musician) or …
In late April 2026, the OpenRouter usage stats for pi — a minimalist open-source coding agent — changed sharply and without warning. Kimi K2.6 from China’s Moonshot AI jumped to first place by token volume, overtaking Claude Opus 4.7. Here’s …
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The concept is simple: instead of an image or a voice message, you send someone a song written specifically for them. It sticks with people. The problem used to be that this either cost a lot (commissioning a musician) or …
CutEase now features Cut Line Visualization and support for Guillotine logic. But to get here, I had to spend a week fighting with an “intelligence” that couldn’t figure out which way was up. In my previous posts, I raved about …