machine-learning

I spent the last few weeks building SecureCheck AI — a free web-based cybersecurity intelligence platform for developers. Here is what it does: Paste any website URL and get a security score from 0 to 100 It checks real HTTP headers — CSP, X-Frame-Options, HTTPS redirects and more It tells you exactly what is missing and how to fix it It detects the tech stack of any website without touching thei…

The public platform includes dashboards on AI exposure in the labor market, macroeconomic signals, and generative AI use by workers and firms. Stanford Digital Economy Lab has launched AI Economic Indicators, a public platform tracking how AI is affecting jobs, productivity, adoption, and the wider economy The Stanford Digital Economy Lab has launched AI Economic Indicators, a public platform tra…

Most of the code in Quorum was written by directing Claude Code, an AI coding agent. That is not the interesting claim, and on its own it is not even a good one. An agent left to run unsupervised produces fast, plausible, locally-correct code that drifts into an incoherent system. The interesting part is the discipline that turned agent speed into a coherent, correct, multi-region database applic…

I can design and build a real mobile app in an afternoon now. Not a toy. Something I'd actually put on the store. The part that changed was design. I'm a developer, not a designer. Staring at a blank canvas used to kill projects before they started. Now I design a mobile app with AI in minutes, refine it, and hand it to my coding agent. Here's the exact workflow, end to end, no fluff. Step 1: Don…

Post-quantum document anchoring for AI agents on Algorand There's a quiet assumption baked into every e-signature platform: that RSA and ECDSA will still be hard to break when someone needs to prove the document is authentic. For a contract signed today and enforced in 2040, that assumption is worth examining. NIST finalised ML-DSA (FIPS-204) in August 2024 — the first post-quantum signature stan…

Most retail algorithmic trading bots rely heavily on legacy technical analysis indicators—think RSI, MACD, or Bollinger Bands. While these indicators are easy to calculate, they suffer from a fatal flaw: they are lagging metrics derived entirely from historical price adjustments. In high-frequency, institutional environments, relying on simple moving averages is like trying to drive a car while l…

Did Anthropic Ask For This? This past Friday, the US Government issued an export control directive that prohibits Anthropic from giving foreign nationals access to Claude Fable or Claude Mythos, their latest models. I think Anthropic directly asked for this to happen. My Case A few days before this happened Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, published “Policy on the AI Exponential”: The governme…

Problem We Solved Every year, millions of tons of perfectly edible food are wasted across India from restaurants, weddings, hostels, corporate cafeterias, and households. At the same time, countless people struggle to access nutritious meals. One of the biggest challenges in food redistribution is the lack of a fast and intelligent system that can identify food, estimate quantity, and prioritize …

Have you ever wanted your own Jarvis? A voice assistant that listens, thinks, and speaks back - all running privately on your own hardware? Here's how to build one with Whisper.cpp, Ollama, and Kokoro TTS. No cloud, no wake-word fees, no data leaving your machine. Prerequisites Hardware: Any modern computer with a microphone Software: Python 3.10+, Ollama installed Time: ~30 minutes setup Install…

Want a ChatGPT-like experience where your AI can search the web, read your files, query databases, and run code? Open WebUI + MCP makes it possible - all running locally on your hardware. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard that lets AI connect to external tools. Open WebUI supports MCP natively, turning your local Ollama setup into a tool-equipped AI assistant. Prerequisites GPU…

Want an AI coding assistant that works on YOUR codebase, respects YOUR git history, and doesn't send your code to the cloud? Aider + Ollama gives you exactly that. Aider is an AI pair programming tool that works directly in your terminal. It sees your files, understands your git repo, and makes real edits to your code. Paired with Ollama running a local model, you get a fully private coding assis…

Why Is Claude Turning Into An Asshole? Let's hope this trend reverses Claude is turning into as asshole. It started with Opus 4.7, got a bit better in 4.8, and became insufferable with Fable. It frames everything as an argument between you and it, gives caveats about things you didn’t say, and raises beside-the-point semantic nits all over the place. Never, ever does it use the word ‘technically’…

Unify all your AI models - local and cloud - behind a single OpenAI-compatible API with LiteLLM and Ollama. LiteLLM is a proxy server that exposes 100+ LLM providers through one endpoint. Connect it to Ollama for local inference, and you get load balancing, cost tracking, rate limits, and automatic fallback routing. What You Need Python 3.9+ Ollama installed and running About 20 minutes Setup 1. …

How a curious kid with a ZX Spectrum became an engineer who builds AI from scratch When I was a kid in the early '90s, every boy in my class dreamed about the same thing: getting a game console or a ZX Spectrum to play games. And when they finally got one — that was it. Hours of Dizzy, Boulder Dash, and Elite. Pure entertainment. I was different. Not because I was smarter or more disciplined — I …

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says countries must learn the lesson of diversification after AI giant Anthropic takes Fable 5 and Mythos 5 offline to comply with a Trump administration directive.

Professional-grade image generation that runs entirely on your own GPU. ComfyUI + FLUX.1 Dev gives you Midjourney-quality output with full creative control and zero data leaving your machine. What You Need A GPU with 12GB+ VRAM (24GB recommended) Python 3.10+ or the ComfyUI desktop app About 20 minutes Setup Option A: Desktop App (Easiest) Download from comfy.org, install, and use the built-in mo…

Optimizing RAG Pipelines, Migrating AI Agents, and LLM-Powered Troubleshooting Today's Highlights This week's highlights cover advanced strategies for building and maintaining robust AI systems, from fine-tuning RAG pipelines to orchestrating agent migrations. We also explore practical, real-world LLM application in IT operations. A Cognitive Benchmark for Code-RAG Retrieval: Part 2 — Why Model R…

Gemini Prototyping, AI Code Migration Agents, and LLM Transparency Insights Today's Highlights Today's highlights include Google Gemini's rapid app prototyping capabilities for developers, showcasing how AI can generate functional apps from prompts, alongside insights into AI agents for accelerating legacy code migration projects. We also examine the critical importance of transparency in the com…

Build custom AI apps - chatbots, RAG pipelines, and agents - entirely on your own hardware with Dify and Ollama. No monthly fees, no data leaving your network. What You Need A GPU with 12GB+ VRAM (RTX 3060 12GB or better) Docker + Docker Compose 2.24.0+ About 20 minutes Architecture Component Role Dify Visual app builder, RAG engine, agent framework, API layer Ollama Serves local models via OpenA…

TL;DR: Two tools cut Claude Code token usage at two different layers. RTK is a shell proxy that compresses command output before it ever reaches the context window. context-mode is a Claude Code plugin that does heavy tool work in a sandbox and hands back only the answer. They stack cleanly on top of each other, and a single skill installs both. This article explains how each one works and how to…