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Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Gartner Hype Cycle

According to Wikipedia the Gartner Hype Cycle is a graphical representation of the “maturity, adoption, and social application of specific technologies” . Gartner produce hype cycles for various technologies by placing those technologies, or individual aspects of them on the hype cycle. You can argue about the accuracy and relevance of this approach, but it serves … h...

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Running Large Language Models (LLMs) Locally using Ollama

Over the weekend I was reading this post on the Oracle Linux Blog. It looked pretty simple, so I thought I would give it a go, and that lead me down a rabbit hole for the next few days. 🙂 Why would anyone want to run LLMs locally? There are potential issues with using a … href="https://oracle-base.com/blog/2025/11/05/running-large-language-models-llms-locally-using-ollama...

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Fedora 43 and Oracle

Fedora 43 was released a few days ago. Let’s start with the standard warning. Here are the usual suspects. As explained in the first link, I just do this for fun, and to see what is coming to RHEL/OL in the future. Vagrant & Packer I pushed Vagrant builds to my GitHub. If you want … href="https://oracle-base.com/blog/2025/11/03/fedora-43-and-oracle/" class="more-link" ...

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Getting Started with Oracle

This morning I did a talk to some MSc students at Birmingham City University (BCU), and I said I would give them some useful links for playing about with Oracle. Rather than send it in a email, I figured it might be useful to write a post about it, so it was available to a … href="https://oracle-base.com/blog/2025/10/31/getting-started-with-oracle/" class="more-link" targe...

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Automation: Perfection is the enemy of good

I was chatting to a colleague about automation and during the conversation it was clear we were falling into the trap of searching for perfection. It’s really easy to do, and as you know perfection is the enemy of good. 🙂 I don’t want to speak about specifics, but essentially there was a task they … href="https://oracle-base.com/blog/2025/10/24/automation-perfect-is-the-e...

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