Highlights

• I’m having doubts about sitting out the AI revolution.
• I should prove to myself that customers are willing to buy my book before investing more time into it.
• I’m probably the last person on the planet to discover that RSS is a great way to read blogs.

Goal grades

At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish. Here’s how I did against those goals:

Oracle is not a very popular cloud hosting service, but they have an unusually attractive free tier offering. You can run the following two VMs for free 24/7:

• 4 CPU / 24 GB RAM Ampere A1 ARM VM
• 1 CPU / 1 GB RAM AMD CPU

The AMD one is not that exciting, but a 4-CPU / 24 GB system is more powerful than you’ll find in the free tier of any other cloud vendor.

Learn to install Mistral AI on Linux with this step-by-step guide. Ideal for beginners and advanced users.

The other day I went to a really interesting talk by Carl Öhman (Uppsala University) about applying religious critique to AI.

The other day I went to a really interesting talk by Carl Öhman (Uppsala University) about applying religious critique to AI.