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Now one thing that most people don't know, because some will defend the Duterte administration stance on opening PH to Chinese back to the times of their terms.

I've seen an intelligence article published for public consumption but mainly for the academics I think that was way back in 2023 or 2024 and that document explained that every Chinese citizen under the communist party of China has been mandated to conduct surveillance in all aspect of life where they have access to. That means everything from religion, to business, to technology, politics, and even military.

The citizens don't have choice and everything they see, hear, know, they must report back to the authorities in China.

I know this might verge towards racial discrimination but just take this with caution.

The PH conflict with China, can be used in as a political weapon within the political power struggles in the PH itself but then some people forget that the states internal politics even the issues on corruption is not a reason to betray the homeland.

Looking back at Ukraine, that state is a corrupt state under the leadership of also a corrupt leader Zelenskyy yet people will have to fight for Ukraine after Russia invaded it because regardless of the corruption of the homeland, it is not the reason to give it up to foreign invasion, not a reason to surrender the state's sovereignty.

Same goes to PH, regardless of the scale and disappointment brought about by the corruption scandal, we still have to fight for PH if China invades our shores. For that matter, any foreign entity that will undermine PH sovereignty, the citizens will have to fight it.

Now the armed forces of the Philippines has officially announced thru one of their spokesperson that indeed PH is now under an information war against China. Although they just announced it recently, the information war between PH and China has been happening already for quite sometime now due to the conflict brought about by China encroaching into PH territories, with the motive of securing natural resources and taking advantage of strategical territory foothold in the event of China's reunification with Taiwan.

The purpose of the information war is upper hand in propaganda with the aimed effects of military and civilian demoralization, assertion of China's superiority in terms of military, technology, and morals. It is also about the narrative that China is in the moral right and PH is in the moral wrong.

The conflict actually started way before the Aquino administration and during those times, China and other countries with claims in the island within PH territory will build structures just to be blown away by the PH NAVSOG and that kind of warfare was regular on all parties. Then come the Aquino administration where the conflict escalated and became a national issue and brought to the international community where PH won the ruling. Duterte administration came and PH became open to Chinese and of course that means free flow of Chinese spies to the country and such gave way for more leverage to China on the information warfare that is waged later on to PH.

So the admission of the armed forces that indeed an information war is happening already between PH and China is also a signal for a potential greater conflict that might involve a full blown war in the future. Hence, the government is pushing aggressively to draft more individuals to the reserve force and actually is currently thinking of forced draft or conscription which I think the latter is the best one.

Personally I think war will come to PH shores and the war that will happen is also a new kind of war in the likes of what we've seen so far in Ukraine and in Iran.

So maybe my tactical, intel, scuba, surveillance, and security & risk trainings will be used in that upcoming war and not really for a PMC career 😅

But yes, I'm ready. If that war comes, then let it come.

Woke up and did some house chores and preparing for a 10km run under the sun and before that lets do some rants this morning.

Mass shooting incident in the PH and the assailants are minors. It's becoming messy because a violent game is being dragged into the issue despite the fact that the violent game is rated 18+ and apart from that, more stringent firearms laws on ownership is being pushed because it turns that the incident involved a gun from a police officer that was used by the assailant.

Games do affect the mental state of people even adults. In fact, back in 2021 when I joined a group of Call of Duty Mobile (CODM) players from other places while we are on Covid19 at lockdown, at some point one of the boy teens said he wanted to join the reserve force and he was serious and then he said he hopes he can enter the reserve force without any trainings because he is already very good in CODM. Even if I tried, I could not help but suddenly burst into laughter and that offended the boy teen. I had to explain to him that there are a lot of the physical stuffs that he don't have to wrestle in CODM but in real life he has to. For example, he can jump around many times and run and jump to evade being hit by the enemy and in real life, you can only jump for a certain height with all weight of the gear pulling him down due to gravity and he can only sprint for so many times and it will take the breath out of him because simply, games does not reflect the realities of Physics that we feel.

Now the guns, I've seen this debate in the US happen for a long time now because we all know that in the US, two factions are arguing about the root cause and solution for the regular mass shooting. One side wants stricter gun regulations while the other side believes that doing so adds the pressure to law abiding citizens yet the criminals does not get affected because criminals won't spend their time submitting to the laws of gun control. Basically, advocating for stricter gun laws does not really solve the problem. Even if the state bans the use of guns except for state forces, then the criminals will simply use knives, machete. Again, ban these bladed tools and the criminals will resort to using hammers. The solution is not about weapons control. It has something to do with security and early signal detection with counseling involving the parents, health professionals, schools, and police force.

If PH really does not like the idea of a violent game in PH, they should simply ban violent games in the PH.

Continuing the AI Engineering course for Day 3 at the moment.

Not Happy.

At 14 billion parameters for Qwen2.5-coder, its not only slow, it's like the hallucinating ChatGPT 4.x that I tried from last year. I still need to be clear on my prompts in detail.

Apart from that, I still need to install an AI Agent and configure things and yet it still far from what Cursor or IntelliJ with Codex offers but of course with a fee 👀

Too slow, although the AI agent can actually do tasks, even the lower 7 billion parameter is slow.

Not feasible.

It's really slow but still usable. It's like chatting with an AI model but in a slow motion speed 🤣

Wrestling with the configuration for the models in Continue extension in VS Code.

Weird that none of the configurations worked, except when I set autodetect for Ollama in the Continue extension and suddenly the AI model is introducing themselves to me after I asked them everytime I switched models.

14 billion parameter model is very slow to answer.

PS C:\opt\ai-projects\llm_engineering_in_python> ollama pull qwen2.5-coder:14b
pulling manifest
pulling ac9bc7a69dab: 100% ▕████████████████████████████████████████████▏ 9.0 GB
pulling 66b9ea09bd5b: 100% ▕████████████████████████████████████████████▏ 68 B
pulling 1e65450c3067: 100% ▕████████████████████████████████████████████▏ 1.6 KB
pulling 832dd9e00a68: 100% ▕████████████████████████████████████████████▏ 11 KB
pulling 0578f229f23a: 100% ▕████████████████████████████████████████████▏ 488 B
verifying sha256 digest
writing manifest
success

Time to setup our VS Code with these open source or open weight AI models and hopefully, the AI coding assistance capabilities should be just fine. Who knows I don't need to pay for Codex for the next month 😆

Anytime now!

PS C:\opt\ai-projects\llm_engineering_in_python> ollama pull qwen2.5-coder:14b
pulling manifest
pulling ac9bc7a69dab: 99% ▕███████████████████████████████████████████ ▏ 8.9 GB/9.0 GB 242 KB/s 8m55s

So we are almost there:

PS C:\opt\ai-projects\llm_engineering_in_python> ollama pull qwen2.5-coder:14b
pulling manifest
pulling ac9bc7a69dab: 95% ▕█████████████████████████████████████████ ▏ 8.6 GB/9.0 GB 294 KB/s 24m30s

😊

Alright did 2 python exercises under that AI Engineering course and already submitted the PR.

So let's check our Ollama pull for that 14 billion paramater model:

PS C:\opt\ai-projects\llm_engineering_in_python> ollama pull qwen2.5-coder:14b
pulling manifest
pulling ac9bc7a69dab: 51% ▕██████████████████████ ▏ 4.6 GB/9.0 GB 7.9 MB/s 9m11s

Going to get some rest and then we do a 10km run.

Also, I have notified my martial arts master that I won't be around again for the training because of the preparation of the technical interviews and technical tests.

First ever work on a forked project. PR Already submitted. Will be working more on the next coding exercises under AI Engineering.

We still at

PS C:\opt\ai-projects\llm_engineering_in_python> ollama pull qwen2.5-coder:14b
pulling manifest
pulling ac9bc7a69dab: 35% ▕███████████████ ▏ 3.1 GB/9.0 GB 9.1 MB/s 10m41s

PS C:\opt\ai-projects\llm_engineering_in_python> ollama pull qwen2.5-coder:14b
pulling manifest
pulling ac9bc7a69dab: 35% ▕██████ ▏ 3.1 GB/9.0 GB 573 KB/s 2h50m

Lets defer the long runs later as I feel the hunger at the moment. I need my lunch 🍗🍽🥤

And I noticed changing the VPN server cuts my ollama pull damn 😅

Time to prepare for a Sunday 10km run. I need a lot of 10km runs before I can get back to 21km runs.

Well, its the VPN server where I am connected to. Changing it made my internet connection faster 😅

Could be my internet connection. FB and Insta on my end is slow including YT.

Just woke up a few minutes already and my pull for that 14 billion parameters AI model was cut off. Connection reset by the server WTH 😅

Restarted that pull again:
PS C:\opt\ai-projects\llm_engineering_in_python> ollama pull qwen2.5-coder:14b
pulling manifest
pulling ac9bc7a69dab: 27% ▕████ ▏ 2.4 GB/9.0 GB 339 KB/s 5h23m