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IRC Bots, Beowulf Clusters, and Distributed Computing on Commodity Hardware
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This is Part 2 of a 5-part series documenting the technical evolution from early introduction to role-playing gaming in 1977 and hobby programming in 1979 to modern distributed GPU computing and self-hosted Artificial Intelligence (AI) infrastructure. The series traces patterns that emerged over four decades and shows how they apply to current challenges in AI development and computational independence. This part focuses on scaling patterns from single systems to networks and building production infrastructure on commodity hardware.
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How Role-Playing Games and Early Computing Shaped Four Decades of AI Development
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This is Part 1 of a 5-part series documenting the technical evolution from early introduction to role-playing gaming in 1977 and hobby programming in 1979 to modern distributed GPU computing and self-hosted Artificial Intelligence (AI) infrastructure. The series traces patterns that emerged over four decades and shows how they apply to current challenges in AI development and computational independence.
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Building Education Technology the "Hard Way" (And Why That's Actually the Easy Way)
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I've watched countless companies burn through millions (billions in the aggregate) trying to reinvent wheels that already exist. Not long ago, I reviewed a competitor's failed attempt to build what we launched in six weeks and less than $20,000 USD — they spent three years and $30+ million, and they still couldn't deliver. This isn't about being better-funded, or event smarter; it's about the wisdom of understanding a fundamental truth that most of the tech industry refuses to accept: in the 2020s, 90% of what you need has already been built.
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Freedom to Create: The Relationship Between Open Societies and Innovation
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Throughout human history, innovation has followed a fascinating pattern of peaks and valleys, strongly correlated with the degree of societal openness and free exchange of ideas. Recent comprehensive analyses combining archaeological data, historical records, and modern patent statistics reveal a compelling relationship between open societies and accelerated technological progress.
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Getting WiFi 7 Working on Linux: The ASUS ROG USB-BE92
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I recently upgraded to 5.5 Gbps TDS fiber, installed a shiny new ASUS RT-BE86U WiFi 7 access point capable of 10 Gbps, and grabbed an ASUS ROG USB-BE92 WiFi 7 USB adapter to take advantage of it all. The goal? Get my GPU cluster (what I call DGPUNET - Distributed GPU Network) running at multi-gigabit speeds for distributed AI workloads.
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Building DGPUNET: Democratizing AI Innovation Through Open Source Infrastructure
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Over the past several months, I've been working on something that started as a practical necessity but evolved into a philosophical statement about accessibility in AI development. When a startup couldn't get anything better than a pitiful G10 GPU instance from their cloud provider - completely insufficient for the machine learning workloads needed - I realized I had to take matters into my own hands, and home...
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PoDoSOGoAdmin WebUI Mail Servers Administration Tool - Public Release Very Soon!
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There isn't a free and open source combined administration tool for the mail server setup of: Postfix + PostGreSQL + Dovecot + SOGo Webmail, I have created such a tool, and will be releasing it publicly on github as soon as I can create a sanitized version.
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Postfix, Dovecot, PostGreSQL, and SOGo Webmail on Debian 13
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Debian 13 was fairly recently released, but AWS is already shoving it as the primary AMI, and make getting a good Debian 12 a few more steps. Most apps aren't yet compatible with Debian 13, so I recommend waiting for it to stabilize, but here is some information on getting a basic mail server working on Debian 13...
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The 67% Revolution: How ClimbHigh.AI and Its Community Are Rewriting EdTech's Rules
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At ClimbHigh.AI (https://www.climbhigh.ai), our team, led by CEO Jake Douglass, is building something revolutionary: a platform where creators own 67% of the content equity. Not revenue sharing. Actual ownership...
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Claude.ai adds throttling to max users but with no transparecy.
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I've liked using Claude.ai in many areas, but they are starting to get overwhelmed and have begun throttling "top 5% users", which apparently I am. But they aren't offering ANY transparency about this...
