With the AI bubble growing daily, I decided to slow down for a minute and provide a basic overview of how I visualize the intelligence behind most LLMs. Well for that matter,…
Understanding Unit Testing in Go: A Deep Dive
Introduction Unit testing is a software testing technique where individual units or components of the software are tested in isolation from the rest of the code. The primary goal is to validate…
Retooling My Metrics Monitoring Solution
Introduction In the ever-widening gyre of technology, we often find ourselves tinkering, adjusting, and pivoting. Today, I invite you on a journey through the layers of my monitoring setup, an expedition as…
40ms, That’s A Lot Of Time
For a large chunk of my career as an ISP, all hats admin, one of my duties was maintaining the inbound and outbound mail system that tens of thousands of users used…
Logstash – batch size
Many settings across the Logstash core, filters, input, and output plugins can be tweaked to improve performance. Though Logstash is documented very well at Elastic and there are many other articles about…
The Threadripper
A few people have inquired about the components of my lab server, which I call, in memory of the movie Tron, MCP. So as a quick overview from Proxmox GUI screenshots, here…
It’s All About The Logic
It all comes down to one simple question. Anything electronic from the RFID in your credit card to the latest and greatest CPU or GPU and everything in-between is based on the…
RingCloud: A Theory for Highly Available Cloud Computing
Introduction Traditional cloud infrastructure relies on centralized data centers to host and manage vast amounts of computing resources. But what happens when a natural disaster strikes, or a major fiber cut occurs,…
Streamlining GPT-2 Model Training on a GPU VM with Ansible
Just about two months ago, I became quite enamored with language models. It started with a GPT 3.5 Plus account and then rolled back to GPT2 so I could test my hand…
Watch Out For The Homogenization: AI Said So
I have written a few things lately about using GPT to help with some projects I have going on. IT projects, writing projects, philosophical projects, and so on. More or less, it…