exploration Dependency Hell, Package Managers, and Why Linux Feels Easier Now
Early Linux taught me more about package managers than I ever intended to learn. Mostly because absolutely everything seemed to depend on something else.
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exploration Fedora Core 3 and the Wireless Card that Refused to Cooperate
I wanted wireless networking on Fedora Core 3. What I actually got was a crash course in kernels, package management, dependency hell, and early Linux culture.
exploration Can AI help with Infrastructure Productivity
Not Infra in the way I used to mean it, wires and tin, but this is the DevOps version of Infra, the type of things where you can spin up a Virtual environment in a few clicks (hopefully).
exploration Trying and Failing to get VMware ESXi 8.x running on a Laptop
Okay, this is not exactly installing it on the laptop, in fact we're going to try and virtualise the virtualiser...
exploration My journey through coding languages
Coding is more than remembering the commands.
exploration The Rise of DeFi in Web3 - Your Ticket to Financial Freedom? 🚀💰
Crypto Enthusiast?
exploration Comparing Blockchains
There are many blockchains...
exploration Building an ERC-20 token.
Understanding WallaceCoin - A Beginner's Guide to ERC-20 Tokens.
exploration Why I think Web3 is the future.
I want to build something cool for the Web3 world. I just don't know what.
exploration Mastering Prompt Engineering
In the rapidly evolving world of AI, the ability to generate high-quality outputs from Language Models (LLMs) hinges on one crucial skill; Prompt Engineering.
exploration Using LLMs to Supercharge your Learning
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the way we approach problem-solving, task automation and education.
exploration Building a Snake Game using Prompt Engineering
Using Prompt Engineering to build a simple game.
exploration Web3 is always in the news for the wrong reasons!
Why is Web3 always in the news and never for a good reason?
exploration Did the pandemic kill the Surface Duo line?
Microsoft has ditched the Surface Duo, but why?
exploration InterPlanetary File System
I recently saw a YouTube video that described much of the Web3 space as nothing more than a scam briefly touching on the IPFS as something that some scam-artist just plucked from thin air. Let's dig in.
exploration AI Superpowers, the new world order
2018 saw the release of Kai-Fu Lee's book 'AI Superpowers China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order'.
exploration Response to the question; Why is web3.0 more secure for a voting website than web2.0?
Web 2.0 is centralised, anyone can take control of the web2.0 resource and manipulate it, sometimes in undetectable ways. Web3.0 with a blockchain; this is immutable, the transactions are hashed and recorded onto the blockchain, it is almost impossible to manipulate this data.
exploration Ethereum Virtual Machine
What is the Ethereum Virtual Machine
exploration Can you build your own Spam filter?
Short answer is obviously yes. The longer answer depends on lots of things, one of the main ones is Effort vs Benefit.
exploration So NFTs are a bit more popular than I thought they would be
I wrote earlier this year about Ethereum and I mentioned that I thought NFTs were a bit of a side thing... I may have been wrong.
exploration Hello World and the MNIST Database
The MNSIT (Modified National Institute of Standards and Technology) database is a large collection of handwritten numbers used for training Image Processing systems. This is, in short, the hello world of machine learning.
exploration Ethereum, the new money
How is Ethereum different from BitCoin?
exploration Support Vector Machines
SVM‘s are a key part of the Machine Learning History, it is fair to say that early interest in SVM’s and the realisation that they couldn’t deliver on early promises actually set the field of Machine Learning back a little.
exploration Jenny from the Block (chain)
This was originally posted on my Blog back in 2019 and then swiftly archived due to the vast amount of spam it provoked via the wordpess comments system that I was using at the time. Re-posted in April 2023 (comments have since been disabled because I haven't figured out how to get a nice commenting system in Gatsby yet....).
exploration SalesLoft and the Tracking Pixel
Tracking sales emails with no regard for the recipients privacy.
exploration Machine Learning or Deep Learning?
If AI is the tree, then Machine Learning and Deep Learning are some of the branches that make that tree.
exploration Ever wondered how a Machine Learns?
Machine Learning systems learn how to review data inputs so that never before seen data can be predicted against results of known data.