Welcome to Korm.co
Welcome to Korm.co. This is a personal site for publishing projects and research as I continue learning through building—mostly with AI, but wherever curiosity leads.
"The best way to predict your future is to create it."
— Abraham Lincoln
How Do You Best Learn?
Someone asked me this not long ago and it stopped me cold. I didn't have an answer ready. Visual? Sure. Reading? Sometimes. But the best answer for me is by doing things.
There's no substitute for getting your hands dirty. You can read about or study different system designs, but true understanding is found when you've built something, broken it, and fixed it yourself.
Why Now? Why a Web Site?
The future is accelerating. New tools, new capabilities, new possibilities—all moving faster than any of us can passively absorb. In a world like that, learning how to learn becomes the skill that matters most.
So that's what this site is about. Building things and writing about what I learn along the way. Sharing the projects, the mistakes, and the occasional breakthrough (I swear).
Building a Web site is symbolic personally; I came up in the dot com era building on the Web before getting into backend, payment and CRM systems. Here I can own the content and with AI development it is easy. Let's see where it goes!
Projects: Make Learning Interesting
Holidays are a great time for projects. Reflecting back on previous holiday breaks I've built computers, video games, etc. When shopping for gaming PC parts with my son in 2019, I realized video cards were hard to find! So I started experimenting with mining Ethereum (ETH), and sure enough it worked, really well. I wasn't the only one and during the lockdown it was hard to get parts some were only available from overseas so if you wanted them right away you had to be creative.
At the home improvement store buying rig framing with my kids, a friendly shopper saw me selecting the aluminum and asked if I had a project planned. Crypto was a new thing to me so I wasn't comfortable explaining it to him ironically.
Next thing you know I'm waiting in line at the computer store for the best deal and buying old video cards off Craigslist to scale my worker nodes. I was able to efficiently mine 7 GPUs on used $50 desktop mainboards, one worker node with an (early purchased) specialty mainboard scaled to 14 GPUs. One of these rigs I took in for a volunteer appearance at sixth grade science day. Hopefully I made an impression from my Bitcoin (BTC) as digital gold explanation but maybe the LEDs and spinning fans helped.
Note: If you don't already know, the ETH network is now operated by stakeholders (proof of stake) and is no longer operated by miners (proof of work, like BTC).
Hybrid Intelligence
For my projects, I am focusing on areas where AI can be applied in new and useful ways in our life without dramatic change. While the overstimulation surrounding AI places a haze on our collective direction, I believe the best way to approach that is with humility and a constructive attitude. Let's build incrementally for the purpose of educating ourselves and others.
Get in Touch
Find me on LinkedIn with your constructive feedback or comments. If you are interested in working together or collaborating on any of the projects let me know, otherwise stay tuned!