At the beginning of the year, I had never vibe coded. Shocking, eh? So I felt I really needed to learn it. I knew it involved AI, and I loved AI, so that was good. I was also an experienced programmer — so that was good too. This story is about the coding process because…
There’s an assumption behind every benchmark score reported for LLMs that the model is doing something we’d recognise as reasoning. Not pattern-matching, not memorisation, not sophisticated autocomplete — actual reasoning. The kind where you understand the structure of a problem and apply it to a new instance, regardless of what the numbers look like. A…
The years 1993 to 1996 were exciting ones in my professional life. By day, I was working for NSW TAFE in a Systems Administration/Analyst role, and by night I was undertaking a Bachelor of Science (Computing) at the University of Technology, Sydney. My job was particularly interesting. I was working on a Geographical Information System…
On building the infrastructure for asking the same question twice You can’t improve what you can’t reproduce. That’s the problem with most AI evaluation today: someone runs a prompt, gets a result, and reports it. But when the model changes — a new quantisation, a parameter update, a different provider — there’s no clean way…
Glenn Ison is my brother-in-law and also a senior medical imaging professional at St George Hospital, Kogarah. Back in the 2010s, Glenn conducted groundbreaking research into improving safety for medical staff in radiation laboratories. As a result, he was invited to write an abstract on his research and to travel to Paris to present at…
As you can probably tell from some of my other posts, science fiction and space are a passion. I created the scene below in 2021 using Blender and an asset I’d bought from the DAZ Studio marketplace. The asset I’d bought was the window. Everything else was mine. This post is about the planet that…
This video dates from 2015. At the time, I hadn’t mastered Blender and thought this was a good way to go. Thought I would share for historic purposes.
1990 was a great year. I got my 386 PC, with a whopping 40MB hard drive and, at the same time, Photoshop and Corel PaintShop Pro were released. I was chuffed. To be honest, Corel PaintShop Pro was my fave over Photoshop. I found it more transparent to use – more intuitive. Nevertheless, both were…
Another restored story from my old blog. This is dated 12 June 2016. At the time, I was still recovering physically from a cornea transplant and emotionally from a redundancy. This said, I recall some good aspects. Rhiannon – my daughter – had just started High School, and my wife was working. So I got…
This is another article restored from my old blog. It was written on 24 October 2014, and from the vantage point of 2016 I am astonished by where this led. I played with the idea a bit in Tempting in Shade. Then in 2020 I used the idea in a short story called Forgetting the…