Well first day of induction just happened and it went ok just burbling with lots of information that none of us took in no doubt but all useful stuff. Its an early start for me in the morning as am on the 5:54am train to Leeds then on to Manchester for about 8:45am. Classes start…

Well we had our fist induction to the university and what can I say between London, Birmingham and Manchester there were 30 students. From what I could ascertain there were maybe 3 members of the cohort who knew what they were getting themselves into and I feel that we are going to have 2 very…

Remember to read the timetable properly and work out that you dont have to be in Manchester today, so I get to stay home and will be in Manchester on Tuesday now. I have an online induction session today using webex so hopefully will get my student email address and access to the student portal…

Well its finally here, I start my cyber security degree tomorrow at Southampton Solent running out of the Manchester Campus. I cant wait to meet my fellow students and have some fun whilst learning. Lots of practice between now and when I finish in 4 years. Need to entertain myself on the train so I…

Yes I am guilty of the grass is greener on the other side of the fence…. We changed our broadband provider back in November to YouFibre and they were and are awesome but someone from EE came and knocked on the door and told us about EE broadband that was exactly the same as YouFibre…

Well I actually enrolled a couple of weeks ago now, last week I did a few extra curricular activities like a reintroduction to numbers and a bit of algebra. Went OK am quite comfortable with that as it stands so no issue. Have got induction on campus on Thursday so its an early start on…

How do we make AI available to everyone not just the privileged few? It would seem that the American tech bro fraternity are making models that are so expensive to use in any meaningful way that most people will be priced out of the market. Meta have plans for a 2.5GW data center the size…

I have been using llama 3 for a couple of months now but I want to upgrade it to a better model, have found a load of regularly updated models so am going to try and get some of those running locally before the Jenson Orin arrives next month. Looking through benchmarks and it looks…

Am I too late to the party? I think maybe I am but I will be bringing in the AWS AI Architect course to enhance my skills. £80k is a lot of money to spend on a degree that wont get me anything, maybe am being silly and overthinking it now that the date is…

First thought this morning was the next challenge on hackthebox, I think I am hooked. Going to try and only do 8 hours today and keep it that way to maintain a good work/life balance. Challenges are super interesting and I am slowly getting used to the way things work and am not needing the…