Built a real-time Pipe Detection system with YOLOv8

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Excited to share my latest project: Building a Computer Vision Model with YOLOv8 to Count Pipes! 🚀 As a machine learning enthusiast, I recently dove into object detection to solve a real-world problem—accurately counting pipes in industrial settings. Using YOLOv8, I trained a custom model on a dataset sourced from Google Images, and the results … Read more

Zero-Downtime Nginx to Caddy Migration: A Homelab Step-by-Step Guide

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Migrating your homelab reverse proxy from Nginx to Caddy is way easier than it sounds—especially when you do it without downtime. Below is a straight-to-the-point guide you can copy-paste into WordPress. No Markdown, just clear steps and bullet points. What you’ll get out of this post – Full backup of every Nginx config and TLS … Read more

Rethinking AI Through the Lens of the Humanities

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In a world where artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly weaving itself into the fabric of everyday life—from healthcare decisions to creative endeavors—a groundbreaking white paper titled Doing AI Differently calls for a paradigm shift. Released by The Alan Turing Institute, the University of Edinburgh, and the UK’s Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC-UKRI), this document … Read more

How to Build an AI That Truly Works as a Learning Companion

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Artificial Intelligence has the potential to revolutionize education — but only if it’s designed with the right principles in mind. An effective AI learning companion isn’t just a “question-answer machine.” It should guide, challenge, and inspire learners while also supporting educators. Here’s what it takes to make that happen. 1. Personalized Tutoring and Guidance The … Read more

MoE Showdown: Qwen3 30B-A3B vs GPT-OSS 20B – What Developers Need to Know

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In the fast-evolving world of large language models (LLMs), the Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture has emerged as a game-changer—offering high performance without the massive computational cost of fully dense models. Two recent heavyweights—Alibaba’s Qwen3 30B-A3B and OpenAI’s GPT-OSS 20B—are pushing the boundaries of what MoE models can do. Released in 2025, these models represent two distinct … Read more

10 curl Commands Every Sysadmin Should Automate to Save Hours of Work

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Ever catch yourself doing the same boring server checks every single morning? Same here—until I started scripting those chores away with a tool that’s already on every Linux box: curl. Most people think it’s just for downloading files or poking a website, but it’s actually a Swiss-army knife for talking to APIs, monitoring services, and … Read more