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The Sky(net) Is Falling! The news broke yesterday that there was a security incident involving OpenAI and Huggingface. If you’re in the AI industry, Huggingface needs no explanation. If you’re NOT in the AI industry, it’s a strange company - they rent very small-time research level access to some servers that are better at running AI software than your computer for really cheap, and most importantly, it’s the coffee shop where AI researchers and nerds share notes and post things on the coffee shop bulletin board like “Giant Copyright-free Mythology Corpus Dataset” AHEM - apologies, that’s a project I’m working on that will be posted there soon. Basically, the tests, benchmarks, metrics, and bragging rights of the open research world of AI development happens through Huggingface. This is important to the story. ...

The End of the Beginning I wrote the last post as I was getting ready to ship the new design. I ran into a devil of a problem that I would be entirely remiss if I didn’t mention it here. As I was going through the pages in the site with Hugo server running locally, I noticed that there was one slight problem with a couple of pages on the site. In light mode, the background was white. The rest of the site had a nicely warm off-white background that I found lovely. My first blog post, and the “About” page, broke the style - the background was pure white. ‘#FFFFFF’ in HTML/CSS color code. This must not be! ...

Pardon the Mess - Under construction. When I decided to restart my website, I fell back into old design styles and habits. I’m a system administrator, but I do have a history of building websites. I’ve never been a great designer, and the restart of the site that I hand-coded looked ROUGH. It was a late ’90s mess of menus and unnecessary navigation. I laid the base design into a Hugo construct, pushed it to Netlify (thanks, guys, I get to have my site on the free tier!) and there it sat for more than a month, sad and old. ...