100 Days of Code Day 39
More exercises. First is Reverse String it had some extra challenge at the end to reverse strings with grapheme clusters. I got how to split it out from: https://www.javaspring.net/blog/how-can-i-tell-if-a-string-contains-multibyte-characters-in-javascript/. Second was Collatz conjecture if you do a visualization of that one you can get nice fuzzy line swirls. Third (coincidentally) was triangle given a set of lengths check to see if it is a triangle of a given type (equliateral, scalene, or isocolese). That’s an hour, I guess I am still 7 behind if I want to keep pace to finish by day 100 (I should probably give up on that).
For the rest of today I decided to try out my new book “OLLAMA Crash Course” by Greg Lim. I got through page 34 and played around with some ollama models a bit. It is kind of cool, but has problems. I ask it to speak some text and it just writes it to the console. I asked for ascii art of a koala and got a house shape. Still it appears to have lots of info and was a bit creepy when I exited and it wished me to live long and prosper.
Everyone goes on about needing to learn AI. I just don’t want to make yet another login or pay for the privilege of cloud access so OLLAMA seemed like the right avenue for testing the waters.