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Yesterday I made an AI server run on my broken 6 year old phone. In the same week as GitHub moved to usage based pricing and a week after we learnt that a company accidentally spent $500 million on Claude AI in one month alone, I dug out a discard piece of technology to host an LLM.

Python recipe scraper exposed as an MCP tool

After several years away, this blog is back online with an updated Hugo theme. More articles coming soon.

This is the final part to my notes and reflections on the book, Antifragile, by Nassim Taleb. Part one covered such things as skin in the game, the principle-agent problem, fragility of optimisation and convexity effects, and the power of options over deterministic thinking.

I think my work colleagues and friends are now bored of me raving about the book Antifragile by Nassim Taleb. My reading style is to read very slowly, mulling over each sentence again and again. When a book is this dense I also tend to make notes. Here they are below, from the point of view of a consultant and a numerical modeller. Some examples are taken straight out of the book whilst others are ones I have personally encountered that illustrate concepts the book raises.