Get your data local: Setting up Network Attached Storage (NAS) and your first steps in self-hosting

Posted on Fr 30 Januar 2026 in personal-ai

If you're just getting started with local AI and local-first development, one of the initial hurdles will be getting your data local.

More of an audio-visual person? Check out the accompanying YouTube video on the Probably Private channel if you'd rather watch and listen.

Why should you store data locally …


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Building out my home AI Lab for private and local AI

Posted on Do 15 Januar 2026 in personal-ai

So, you wanna do at-home AI? Yes, you do!

There's a bunch of great reasons to run your own AI including having more control over your data and models, learning more about how deep learning works, testing out new ideas without having to pay extra cloud or subscription costs and …


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Priveedly: your private and personal content reader and recommender

Posted on Do 23 Januar 2025 in personal-ai

I'm excited to open-source a project that I've been using for the past 2 and a half years: a private/personal reader and recommender.

It works with:

and comes with an example Jupyter Notebook for training your own text-based recommendation model once you have …


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Private and Personalized AI

Posted on Di 19 November 2024 in personal-ai

I recently had the wonderful experience of keynoting PyData Paris, thanks again for the invite! When deciding on a topic, I was considering my recent research about how AI/ML systems memorize data. As I've mentioned in a few talks, if we indeed embraced the fact that machine learning systems …


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