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The shortest path to local inference is not to begin with a web server, an agent framework, or a full RAG pipeline. Begin with a spike that proves five things on the target machine: the SDK initializ...
Sep 25, 202681Views
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A retrieval-augmented generation prototype can look convincing after an afternoon: load a few documents, create embeddings, retrieve passages, and ask a model to answer. A health-records system is ha...
Sep 24, 2026128Views
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Building an AI agent is getting easier. Building an agent system that knows which agent should act, what context to share, when the work is done, and where a person must approve is the harde...
Sep 23, 2026192Views
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A UCL IXN MSc project exploring why schema-valid local SLM robot task proposals still need deterministic governance before they can progress, using Microsoft Foundry Local.
Sep 22, 2026158Views
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Building the Local RAG System
The system was designed as a fully local RAG pipeline, with both retrieval and model inference running on the same machine. The knowledge base came from two equipment ...
Sep 21, 2026293Views
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Rather than relying on the model to know when the student understands, we built a pipeline where progress itself is gated: a student cannot move forward until they can demonstrate ...
Sep 17, 20261.7KViews
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Firmware can look perfectly reasonable in the editor. That does not tell you whether the pulse on the pin is the right width or what your I2C bus is actually sending.
The oscillosc...
Sep 11, 2026229Views
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Three seconds after I clicked Assign, GitHub Copilot added an 👀 reaction to my issue. Twenty minutes later, a working pull request was ready for review.
That experience reveals an importa...
Sep 08, 2026304Views
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"Every journey begins with curiosity. Mine started in 18 October 2023 with a simple decision to join the Microsoft Student Ambassador program."
When I became a Microsoft Student Ambassador...
Sep 02, 2026305Views
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So the plan was simple. Leave the Bedrock configuration untouched, then wire Microsoft Foundry in behind it as a fallback, so Hermes always has somewhere else to go when the primary provider is not r...
Aug 27, 2026308Views
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