From Science Fiction to Reality: Westworld and Modern AI

I promise we’ll get back to the Raspberry Pi “Chasing Your Tail” stuff soon, but something crazy hit me last night. I started to rewatch HBO’s Westworld – I’d seen the first two seasons before but got sidetracked and never finished up. Unfortunately, it’s not streaming on HBO (what the heck, people?). As I’m sitting […]

The Return of “Chasing Your Tail”: A Tool Born from Real Need

A few years ago, when I was still with the government, a buddy from a different agency reached out with a serious problem. He had a confidential informant with ties to a very serious terrorist organization. He wasn’t worried about his own safety – he was worried about his informant. If anyone observed them meeting […]

The Daily Blogging Challenge: Following in Some Big Footsteps

Years ago, my fellow SANS instructor Lenny Zeltser did this daily blog post challenge where he blogged every single day. He said he had a really good time doing it. A couple years ago, one of my best friends and fellow SANS instructor David Cowen took on what he called the “Zeltser Challenge” – blogging […]

Deepseek Running Locally with RAG

Here is a quick video I made showing a distilled version of the Deepseek model running locally and accessing some local documents. Usually I’ve been using GPT4ALL for local LLMs but it was having errors so I switched to LM Studio. Not you currently have to use a Beta build of LM studio as the […]