[ Ai and llms ] [ Networking ] Part 3 of 6 9 min read
A frontier training run is a networking problem dressed up in a math costume. The industry chose the chickens over the oxen, so how do you get 16,000 of them pulling in the same direction? Part three of six.
[ Ai and llms ] Part 2 of 6 9 min read
Training turns roughly 405 billion random numbers into something useful through one boring move: guess the next token, get graded, nudge every number a hair, and repeat. Part two of six.
[ Ai and llms ] Part 1 of 6 11 min read
A large language model is an enormous pile of numbers, and everything it does comes from multiplying other numbers by that pile. Part one of six.
[ Ai and llms ] 6 min read
I asked an AI to tidy up my blog repo and it accidentally organized itself into a nine-member development team. I'm releasing that team, free, on GitHub.
[ Infrastructure ] [ Ai and llms ] 21 min read
Data centers are eighty years old and already 99% full. We need considerably more of them, and we're making a hash of deciding where they go.
Architecture and design for AI, ML, LLM, and agentic systems that solve a specific business problem, scoped to what your data, budget, and people can actually support.
Independent guidance for the technology leaders you already have, or part-time leadership until you hire one: a strategy built around your constraints that the business can actually execute.
Getting ready for SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST, and other security and compliance audits, with the policies, documentation, and daily processes in place well before the audit begins.
Independent assessment and design for enterprise networks and infrastructure, backed by hands-on experience designing, building, and fixing networks from mid-market to Fortune 100.
Landscape assessments, vendor evaluations, and market briefings, written for practitioners rather than procurement committees and without the analyst-firm retainer.
Custom writing projects, from white papers to technical guides, by a long-time member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors with a deep portfolio of published and private work.
[ Everything else ] 1 min read
Well, it’s over. Vacations always seem way too short. All of the months of planning, dreaming, working out the little myriad details: then, 10 days in Cozumel and Southern California and it’s done. C’est la vie. That …
[ Networking ] 4 min read
iTunes Home Sharing A decent into the hell of Bonjour and black turtle-necks This is just another short example in what I’m expecting will be a recurring theme here on Packet Queue: attention to detail. As a network …
[ Everything else ] 1 min read
Public Service Announcement of the day: I’ve long believed that the Trunk Monkey security system should be available in a network monkey form. Many layer‑8 problems could be solved before the need for escalation to the …
[ Industry events ] 4 min read
Teren and I just returned from Cisco Live in Orlando. As always, we had an amazing time seeing some of the friends we have made over the past few years and meeting some new friends too. I noticed that this year there …