WordPress to Hugo?

Really? The performance from my WP hosting provider is consistently poor, althouhg I don’t seem to have suffered a DOS since installing the CDN package. I don’t want a database on my Pi as it complicates build maintenance. Is Hugo the answer?

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sudo on raspbian

I have/had a problem; I suspect that my cron jobs were asking for permission to run which since they were batch programs is not the desired behaviour. I have done some googling, and think it maybe related to the sudoers file, i.e. additional command are needed. At the moment I have turned cron off and…

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Some thoughts on AI

Is there an alternative architecture? Can we build distributed open source rules bases? What is the learning layer? Some notes and links …

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AI & Search

There is some stuff written about how Google struggles between offering a great customer experience and profitability, but AI is changing that. Here are two articles that address Google’s continued anticompetitive behaviour, and AI become an interlocutor for search.

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Where are the chips made?

There’s probably a joke about British and American use of the word chips here, but in this article we are talking about silicon chips. Here is some stats I took 1½ years ago on which countries make them, taken from Wikipedia.

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Universities, funding & growth

There is a Commons Education Select Committee Inquiry going on into University Funding, with hearings held at the beginning of the week. On the Tuesday 25th, they took oral evidence including that from Susan Lapworth, the CEO of the Office for students, who stated that 50 institutions were [financially] vulnerable with 24 at risk of…

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