Week 20 - 26: Back With an Upgrade: New Hardware and Major Progress on My AI PentesterHow’s it going, readers? I’m sorry I haven’t posted in a while, but now that I’m back, I have quite a bit of news to share. Over the past few weeks, a lot has changed—both in terms of hardware and in the direction of my AI-powered penetration testing...Jan 13 · 3 min readprojectblackbox.hashnode.dev
Getting Started with Ollama: Run LLMs Locally in Minutes (Week 18 - 19)What is Ollama? Ollama is a free, open-source tool that allows developers and users to run large language models (LLMs) locally on their computers. But why would you want to do that? Two words: privacy and accessibility. If you’re new to Ollama, here...Nov 28, 2025 · 3 min readprojectblackbox.hashnode.dev
Understanding the Science of Neural Networks: A Theoretical Overview (Week 16 - 17)The past two weeks were heavy on theory, focusing on understanding the science behind neural networks. Progress was a bit slower than usual due to some external commitments, but I’ve recently started learning PyTorch, which I’ll dive deeper into in t...Nov 13, 2025 · 3 min readprojectblackbox.hashnode.dev
Diving Deeper into AI: kNN, Classifiers, and Gradient Descent Explained (Week 14 - 15)Hello readers! I wanted to announce a big change: I will be posting biweekly from now on. I noticed that publishing a blog every week isn’t as effective, since there’s only so much I can accomplish in a week. Posting biweekly will allow me to consoli...Oct 30, 2025 · 3 min readprojectblackbox.hashnode.dev
Automating Recon with Python: My Nmap & Nikto Parser Journey (Week 12-13)What was this week about? First, I want to apologize for not posting a blog last week. I was busy adding features to my nmap+nikto parser and realized it wasn't useful to post a blog halfway through the process. While I have mostly finished the funct...Oct 16, 2025 · 3 min readprojectblackbox.hashnode.dev