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Continue reading →: How good is Artificial Intelligence at writing a blog post? (Artificial Intelligence)This blog post investigates three LLMs to see if Artificial Intelligence (AI) can write in the style of geektechstuff.com
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Continue reading →: Artificial Intelligence: Vector Embeddings
A blog post looking at what vector embeddings are, how to generate a vector embedding, and what a vector embedding looks like.
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Continue reading →: Arcade Club Bury (Review)Tron: Ares is due to hit cinemas this October (2025) in the UK, and thinking of Tron reminds me of classic video game arcades thanks to Flynn’s. In present day arcades are generally found in bowling alleys and can cost quite a bit (£1 a play on average, and £2…
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Continue reading →: HexadecimalAn overview of Hexadecimal (Base 16) and how it compares to Denary / Decimal (Base 10) and Binary (Base 2).
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Continue reading →: AI in Government and Academia Summit 2025 (Manchester, UK)On Thursday 11th September 2025 I attended the “AI in Government and Academia Summit 2025” hosted by Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU), the Department for Science, Innovation, & Technology (DSIT), and Government Digital Service (GDS). The day was co-chaired by Dr Tommaso Spinello (DSIT) and Professor Keeley Crockett (MMU) and opened by…
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Continue reading →: Proxmox: Terraform Cloudinit
Back in May I used Terraform to create some containers in my Proxmox environment. Adjustments to Proxmox Since my original post I have turned my single Proxmox node into a Proxmox cluster, added some shared storage and created a cloudinit template. With all of that in place I’m now going…
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Continue reading →: Personal Update: BSc to MSc
Previously my “personal update” posts discussed how I was undertaking an apprenticeship. That was a Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Digital and Technology Solutions, with my specialism/pathway focusing on Software Engineering. The apprenticeship expanded my knowledge, gave me confidence and helped introduce me to new ways of researching/investigating technologies. I successfully…
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Continue reading →: Proxmox: Cloudinit
In this blog post I am going to look at creating a virtual machine (VM) template that has cloudinit so that some settings are automatically configured at launch of any VMs built from the template. The first step towards a cloudinit template is finding a cloudinit image. Ubuntu Cloudinit Images…
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Continue reading →: K3s Cluster (Kubernetes)
With my Proxmox cluster running I have decided to delve back into Kubernetes in a local cluster. My Proxmox hosts are not super powerful (2 cores each and a mixture of 4GB and 8GB) but that should be enough for a K3s cluster. K3s K3s is lightweight Kubernetes (K8s) built…
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Continue reading →: Proxmox: Adding A Share
My little Proxmox cluster is coming into iit’ss own with a few virtual machines (VMs) and containers running across the 2 nodes of the cluster. However, I have been downloading operating system ISOs and container templates (CT) to each node when needed, and backup is currently non-existent. Time to do…
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