Hardware

Topics: AI Models, Open Source, Ollama, Production AI, Infrastructure The trading bot running on my Jetson Orin Nano uses llama3.2:3b for its daily summary task. Not because it was the first model I tried. deepseek-r1:14b at 9GB does not fit the 7.4GB unified memory pool. llama3.1:8b mostly fits and crashes at the edge. llama3.2:3b stays stable at roughly 2GB and writes the summary well. The model writes one paragraph per day: what position the bot holds, what the P&L is, what the trailing stop did. It does that task well. The fact that it is several capability tiers below GPT-5.5 does not show up anywhere in the output. ...

Topics: Python, Alpaca, Ollama, Jetson Orin Nano, Trading Automation The trading bot watches XNDU every five minutes during market hours. XNDU is a photonic quantum computing company. Photonics means room temperature operation. The cooling infrastructure that makes quantum computing prohibitively expensive at scale is not part of the design. XNDU had solid financials this week and got upgraded to a strong buy. I queued 100 paper shares for the 9:31 AM open on April 30, 10% trailing stop, $5,000 position cap. ...