Ghost or something else

Another friend asks for advice I’m building a website. Ghost has been suggested, which led me to have a little look. This note looks at what I consider to be the critical selection criteria and make some notes about ghost and flat file CMS.

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How does AI work?

Despite the many pages I have tagged AI, I need another to document my sources as I seek to understand how it works and why GPUs are required. This is by no way finished.

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Configuring services on my ‘Pi

The ‘pi currently runs ‘transmission’ and a web site, but I want to offer mail using Roundcube, and to run a python2 service i.e. planet venus in a docker container. Also next stop is diaspora!

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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? See the comments for a record of how this page was amended. Below, or overleaf are my 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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