Understanding AI from Scratch - Part 1
Have you ever wondered how AI works under the hood? Right down to the most basic concepts taking in some text and producing something that feels like magic, or sometimes total garbage.
A little bit of everything, from deep dive serious work-inspired Microsoft Teams and Dynamics 365 topics all the way to some of the silly little hobbies that I waste my time with.
All of the text on this site is 100% me - no LLMs were harmed in the creation of these posts. However, I do use Copilot, ChatGPT, Microsoft Designer, Azure AI Speech Services and more to help with the images and text-to-speech.
Have you ever wondered how AI works under the hood? Right down to the most basic concepts taking in some text and producing something that feels like magic, or sometimes total garbage.
Picking between AI frameworks, libraries, languages, and tools isn't easy. So you can benefit from my thought process and see what I've ended up with, for better or worse - vLLM on WSL!
See what's SHAKEN in the US Telephony industry and getting everybody STIRd up about. For these and more puns, and maybe some insightful information, have a read.
Step by step, turning a local Node.js prototype into an Azure Function wrapped with a Custom Connector so it can be called easily from a Power Automate Flow.
Now that the new GitHub Copilot plans have been announced, let's take a look at what's changed, how to work out your allowance, and then make up fake reasons why it happened, come on - it'll be fun.
Announced today, GitHub have paused the individual plans (Pro and Pro+) while they redefine the line up. Have a read what impact that may have, and if it'll be such a good deal afterwards.
Microsoft have recently announced they will be 'addressing a gap' in their systems by introducing additional licence checks to prevent bot-initiated PSTN call transfers, effective June 2025.
Why do it yourself when you can make Dynamics 365 do it for you? This is a workaround for a common SharePoint Document Integration 'issue'.