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Nic Lydon

Director of Information Security. Twenty years in tech, fifteen in security, and an enthusiastic abuser of agentic coding tools. I write about what I can't stop thinking about, with data.

Location Boston, MA Joined Joined on  Personal website https://niclydon.io github website twitter website

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Director in Cybersecurity

I Trained an LLM on 75K of My Own Messages So It Would Stop Writing Like a Chatbot
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I Trained an LLM on 75K of My Own Messages So It Would Stop Writing Like a Chatbot

#ai #machinelearning #llm #python
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I Built a Personal Knowledge Graph. Apple Had Already Built One on My Laptop.
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I Built a Personal Knowledge Graph. Apple Had Already Built One on My Laptop.

#apple #postgres #privacy #dataengineering
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Building a Skills Updater Pipeline for AI Platforms
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Building a Skills Updater Pipeline for AI Platforms

#showdev #ai #automation #llm
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25 Months of Waiting, 12 Hours of Work
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25 Months of Waiting, 12 Hours of Work

#ai #iot #wearables #sideprojects
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I have NFC implants in both hands. I only installed one of them myself.
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I have NFC implants in both hands. I only installed one of them myself.

#discuss #devjournal #iot #science
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The Machine Zone: Ignition
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The Machine Zone: Ignition

#ai #productivity #mentalhealth #sideprojects
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I Fixed My LLM OOM Crashes by Shrinking the Draft Model (Speculative Decoding on Real Hardware)
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I Fixed My LLM OOM Crashes by Shrinking the Draft Model (Speculative Decoding on Real Hardware)

#ai #llm #machinelearning #performance
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