@brianbaldock
Brian Baldock
@brianbaldock
Talks about #secops, #security, #microsoftsecurity, #artificialintelligence, and #identityaccessmanagement
Seattle, WA, USAJoined July 2023
About
I鈥檓 Brian Baldock, a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft with over a decade of experience in cybersecurity, cloud technology, and Microsoft 365 deployments. My career has been shaped by a passion for solving complex technical challenges, driving digital transformation, and exploring the frontiers of AI and large language models (LLMs). Beyond my work at Microsoft, I spend my time experimenting in my home lab, writing about the latest in cybersecurity, and sharing blueprints to help others navigate the evolving digital landscape.
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Learning Fine-Tuning on Nvidia DGX Spark - Part 2
Feb 3 路 4 min read 路 In Part 1 of this series, I got NVIDIA AI Workbench to accept a custom PyTorch base image on DGX Spark. Got the container validated, the GPU was visible, and CUDA worked. 馃敆 Click here to read part 1 of this series By most checklists, the environm...
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Learning Fine-Tuning on Nvidia DGX Spark - Part 1
Jan 24 路 5 min read 路 If you are working with NVIDIA DGX Spark (or your own rig) and trying to do anything beyond toy experimentation, you will very quickly run into challenges. 馃憠 Setting up your own rig? See my previous article to get started Deploying Local AI Inferen...
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My Simple Setup for Sanity in Python Development on Windows
Dec 2, 2025 路 2 min read 路 Dropping a quick post about how I keep my Python versions under control on Windows. Nothing fancy, just something that has saved me enough headaches that it feels worth sharing. Python environments have burned me more times than I want to admit. Diff...
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