Archives for The Blog of Daniel J Hand

Rapidly Evolving Agentic Frameworks

Qwen's Latest Reasoning Model - QWQ-32B

Speaker Diarisation

Phi-4: Microsoft's Latest Small but Powerful Multimodal Model

What AI System Prompts Reveal About Responsible AI

DeepSeek R1 1776

Thinking Machines

Agent Delegation

The Peak-End Rule

Can AI Help a Child Prepare for a Spelling Test?

Visualising a Transformer

The Future of Professional Interpreters in an AI-Driven World

Is Remote Driving the Bridge Between Human Drivers and AI

Kokoro - A Small but Powerful Open Source TTS Model

DAIsy - An AI Chatbot Helping in the Fightback Against Scammers

Exploring the Boox Go 10.3 as a Focused Writing Device

Using LLMs to Test and Strengthen Understanding

Exploring vLLM as an Alternative to Ollama

Phishing Attacks Fuelled by Generative AI

Building in the Shadow of Giants: Thriving Alongside Rapidly Evolving Software

AI and the Creative Process

Hybrid RAG Architecture

Standard RAG Architecture

RAG Architecture Patterns

12 Days of OpenAI - Exciting Updates in AI Innovation

Is it too late to save ASIMO?

Performance Testing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with Ragas

Building a Wine Classifier Using Review Data

Tortoise TTS

Llama 3 Release - Performance Benchmarks

Hidden Potential By Adam Grant - Key Takeaways Relating to Education

Digital Twins at a Planetary Scale

Top Threat Actor Trends: Motivations and Attack Vectors

AI-Powered Image and Video Processing: The Future of Communication

AI in Children's Education

Survivorship Bias

Interview with Techgoondu

Boosting Productivity and Efficiency with Generative AI

Five Metrics for Measuring Digital Transformation Progress

McKinsey's 2021: The Year in Charts

Ethical Artificial Intelligence (AI)

One Page Summary - Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Summary Notes - Black Box Thinking

One Page Summary - Event Streaming Platforms

One Page Summary - The Internet of Things (IoT)

One Page Summary - Blockchain

Summary Notes - Good Strategy Bad Strategy

The Relationship Between Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL)

Outcome Delivery Framework

An AI-based News Presenter Joins China's Xinhua Agency

Functional and Non-functional Design

Why Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence are Necessary to Achieve a Mature Digital State

The Role of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Digital Transformation

Open Digital Platforms

Gamification in the New Digital Platform Economy

Accelerating Time To Value In The New Digital Economy

A Ulysses Contract For Digital Transformation

Clearer Communication

Breaking Away From Incremental Improvement in the Design Process

Systems Versus Goals

DevOps at Red Hat - Open Culture, Open Opportunities

Container Orchestration

Architecting for the AWS Platform - Resources and Design Principles

Architecting for the AWS Platform - Platform

O'Reilly Video Training: Architecting for the AWS Platform - Security

Managed Policies for AWS Identity and Access Management

Using Amazon Simple Workflow (SWF) to Orchestrate Cross-region Deployment of RDS Resources

Case Study - A Continuous Delivery Pipeline for Enterprise Organisations

Interactive Data Visualisation

The Potential Advantages And Challenges Of Owning A Unified Digital Profile

Machine Learning Over Sensitive Data

Hadoop MapReduce - Bringing Agility to an Enterprise Data Analytics Platform

Experimenting with Hadoop MapReduce on the AWS Platform - Part II

Experimenting with Hadoop MapReduce on the AWS Platform - Part I

Interactive Data Preparation

The Role of Data Analytics in Changing Behaviour Through Positive Reinforcement

Data Provenance

The True Cost of Cloud Storage

In-memory Caching Added to HDFS as Competition Between Hadoop and BDAS Heats up