Prof. Peter L. Falkingham

I’ve been using Windows Hello face unlock on my desktop for years, and it’s one of those things you don’t realise how much you rely on until it’s gone.

Epic have just released RealityScan 2.2, and the headline feature is one that’s been on people’s wishlists for a long time: full AMD GPU support on Windows.

Three papers in the last few months, which feels like a decent enough excuse to do a quick roundup.

I’ve been running Hermes Agent — an open-source AI agent framework by Nous Research — for a few weeks now, and I’m genuinely impressed with it.

Oh dear.

I’ve written about the Asus ProArt P16 before.

I’ve been writing posts here about getting set up with local AI, agents, harnesses, and what I’ve done with them.

I’ve been running Linux as my primary desktop for a while now — specifically Bluefin (the immutable Fedora-based distro with dinosaurs) on an ASUS ProArt P16 laptop with an RTX 5090 Mobile and AMD HX 370 processor.

I’ve been spending the last few weeks setting up Hermes Agent as a personal research assistant, and it’s gone from “chatbot I talk to on Telegram” to “actually useful thing that does stuff” pretty quickly.

I’ve been using Copilot in VS Code for a while now, and it’s genuinely useful for the kind of small scripts I write regularly – visualising DEM output in Blender, sorting through CT scan data, that sort of thing.