The Lab
Practical explorations in agentic AI workflows, local LLM architectures, AI graphics, and system experiments.
Generative Pipelines & Node Workflows
The mechanical side of generative art, node-based architectures, LoRA integration, and custom workflows.
Automation,
Vibe Coding & Toolbuilding
Experiments with the above
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Vibe Coding: Five Dependencies and a Stale Circuit Breaker
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…
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The Reasoning Fragility Probe: Implementing Tests on the Limitations of Mathematical Reasoning in LLMs
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…
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Thirty years ago, my first professional articles were published!
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…
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AI Observatory: Test Suites to Make AI Evaluation Reproducible
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…
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Memories – the time I created artwork for a European cardiac conference
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…
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The technique of creating the Gas Giant material in Blender
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…
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Using Sculptrix to make curtains for use in DAZ Studio
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.
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Using DAZ Studio to Create a Fairy story picture for my daughter
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…
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Digital Art Work: Encounter in the Forest
This article was originally written in May 2016 on my previous WordPress site. At the time, I was slowly recovering from a cornea transplant and from an unexpected redundancy. Life was not good, but I found an escape in digital art. Art is an intensely personal thing. Artists across several mediums abound among my WordPress…
