Life hacks: living (phone) life in B&W

Changing your phone display to B&W can reduce your screen time. So what else could use the same hack...

174: GreyBeards talk SDN chips with Ted Weatherford, VP Bus. Dev. & John Carney. Dist. Eng. at Xsight Labs

Xsight Labs talks their latest SDN X2 network switch and E1 DPU chips with the GreyBeards

What R/R tracks can tell us about AI deployment

How R/R track deployment 1850-1950 can explain AI rollout today.

173: GreyBeards Year End 2025 podcast Once again in 2025, AI was all the news. We are seeing some cracks in the NVIDIA moat but it’s early yet. Broadcom VMware moves and DRAM sky-high pricing sort of round out the year for us. Li…

Once again in 2025, AI was all the news. We are seeing some cracks in the NVIDIA moat but it's early yet. Broadcom VMware moves and DRAM sky-high pricing sort of round out the year for us. Listen to our YE podcast to learn more. greybeardsonstorage.com/2025/12/29/1...

173: GreyBeards Year End 2025 podcast

Once again in 2025, AI was all the news. We are seeing some cracks in the NVIDIA moat but it's early yet. Broadcom VMware moves and DRAM sky-high pricing sort of round out the year for us. Listen to our YE podcast to learn more.

172: Greybeards talk domain specific AI with Dr. Arun Subramaniyan, Founder & CEO, Articul8 AI

At AIFD7, Articul8 AI presented a unique non-GenAI solution for industry-specific challenges. On our podcast, Dr. Arun Subramaniyan, Founder and CEO, Articul8 discussed how they deploy domain-specific…

Infinidat InfiniBox®, More Options leads to better ROI/TCO (GUEST BLOG)

Checkout my take on Infinidat's Latest round of updates and their impact on ROI... see www.infinidat.com/en/blog/infi...

SNIA's storage.ai is addressing AI data challenges via industry standards. Dr. J discussed current SNIA work helping to address AI IO challenges. The standards process is not the only way forward but often it can help industry advance. See: greybeardsonstorage.com/2025/10/03/1...

171: GreyBeards talk Storage.AI with Dr. J Metz, SNIA Chair and Technical Director, AMD SNIA's Storage.AI community is focused on addressing AI data challenges through industry standards. Dr. J discussed some of the current SNIA work going on to address AI IO challenges and identified more to come. The standards process is not the only way forward but often it can help industry advance. Listen to the podcast to learn more.

171: GreyBeards talk Storage.AI with Dr. J Metz, SNIA Chair and Technical Director, AMD

SNIA's Storage.AI community is focused on addressing AI data challenges through industry standards. Dr. J discussed some of the current SNIA work going on to address AI IO challenges and identified more to…

Hammerspace and the Open Flash Platform at #AIIFD3 At AIIFD3, Hammerspace talked about the Open Flash Platform (OFP) initiative, which redefines NAS, for increasing NAND capacities, ubiquitous compute and extreme networking bandwidth, targeted for AI. The DPU-based NFSv3 server will supply up to 24PB in 1RU with coming E2(E) SSDs, optimizing power, capacity and networking to address AI storage performance.

Hammerspace and the Open Flash Platform at #AIIFD3

At AIIFD3, Hammerspace talked about the Open Flash Platform (OFP) initiative, which redefines NAS, for increasing NAND capacities, ubiquitous compute and extreme networking bandwidth, targeted for AI. The DPU-based NFSv3 server will supply up to…

170: FMS25 wrap-up with Jim Handy, Objective Analysis

At FMS25 there was lots of discussion on HBM, QLC&SCM SSDs, UAlink/UEC, UCIe for SSDs and liquid cooled m.2 SSDs, listen to the podcast to learn more.

The curse of Scale & AGI Scale has worked wonders for current foundation models regardless of the cost. But at some point scale can't help anymore. The time is near to consider alternatives to scale, especially as we attempt to create AGI. We discuss one we think might help.

The curse of Scale & AGI

Scale has worked wonders for current foundation models regardless of the cost. But at some point scale can't help anymore. The time is near to consider alternatives to scale, especially as we attempt to create AGI. We discuss one we think might help.

Strong CONSISTENCY and object gateways #CFD23 During MinIO's Cloud Field Day 23 presentation they questioned whether object storage gateways offered strong consistency for large objects. The post talks about my views on this.

Strong CONSISTENCY and object gateways #CFD23

During MinIO's Cloud Field Day 23 presentation they questioned whether object storage gateways offered strong consistency for large objects. The post talks about my views on this.

AGI, SuperIntelligence and “The Last Man” Nietzsche’s, the “Last Man”, is a future where automation & technology leads to a life of unchallenged leisure, devoid of struggle and growth. AGI and SuperIntelligence, at b…

New blog post: Nietzsche's, the "Last Man", is a future where automation & technology leads to a life of unchallenged leisure, devoid of struggle and growth. AGI and SuperIntelligence, at best will lead to the Last Man, at worst, to the end of humanity. silvertonconsulting.com/2025/05/30/a...

AGI, SuperIntelligence and “The Last Man” Nietzsche’s, the “Last Man”, is a future where automation & technology leads to a life of unchallenged leisure, devoid of struggle and growth. AGI and SuperIntelligence, at b…

New blog post: Nietzsche's, the "Last Man", is a future where automation & technology leads to a life of unchallenged leisure, devoid of struggle and growth. AGI and SuperIntelligence, at best will lead to the Last Man, at worst, to the end of humanity. silvertonconsulting.com/2025/05/30/a...

AlphaEvolve, DeepMind’s latest intelligence pipeline Deepmind’s AlphaEvolve uses genetic and other techniques via GeminiFlash and GeminiPro to evolve code for the better. It evaluates changes using supplied scoring algorithms and has resulted i…

Deepmind's AlphaEvolve uses genetic and other techniques via GeminiFlash and GeminiPro to evolve code for the better. It evaluates changes using supplied scoring algorithms and has resulted in many advances in mathematics, coding, digital design, etc.. see: silvertonconsulting.com/2025/05/21/a...

Reward is all you need – part 2, AGI part 12, ASI part 3 We discuss a new article, “Welcome to the Era of Experience” which depicts an approach to attain super-human intelligence for LLM agents.

We discuss a new article, "Welcome to the Era of Experience" which depicts an approach to attain super-human intelligence for LLM agents. See: silvertonconsulting.com/2025/04/18/r...

Funny maybe it's just MacOS, slack works on iPhone

is slack down, I'm getting

169: GreyBeards talk AgenticAI with Luke Norris, CEO&Co-founder, Kamiwaza AI

GreyBeards talk Agentic AI with Kamiwaza's CEO, Luke Norris. The world of large enterprise IT is about to undergo another revolution and Kamiwaza AI seems to be leading the charge.

Silverton Space – Ocean Sensing platform Ongoing ocean sensing is a crucial need for the world’s scientific community. Silverton Space will pivot to supplying this need as a 1st step to eventually orbiting cubesats.

Ongoing ocean sensing is a crucial need for the world's scientific community. Silverton Space will pivot to supplying this need as a 1st step to eventually orbiting cubesats. (see: silvertonconsulting.com/2024/12/18/s...)

I’ve found that doing just a vectorDB with no LLM. That encoded/embeds/vectorizes pdf text into a vector database AND using a prompt that is encoded/embeded/vectoriised against that as a query produces a good list of PDF extracts pertinent to my query and then I can refer to the PDFs themselves.

Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari, AGI part 12 Information networks in the form of the story and printed documents has lead to the vast expansion of human society beyond the tribe. But a new, non-human actor is present, today. AI has already ca…

Information networks in stories and printed documents has helped expand human society way beyond the tribe. But a new, non-human actor information network exists today. AI has already caused significant societal disruption and it's not going to stop here. silvertonconsulting.com/2024/11/22/n...

Been reading the book “Nexus” by Yuval Noah Harari, it’s a petty wide ranging and is of major import to all of us technologists today. I’d suggest all of us read it and encourage others to do so.

My first bluesky post here... looking forward to seeing how it goes...