The Vision
Benjamin Bengfort, Ph.D.
Founder/CEO
Bio
Dr. Benjamin Bengfort is co-founder and CEO of Rotational Labs. Benjamin is an experienced systems engineer, programmer and data scientist. Driven by a desire to build large systems with many users that have a global impact, he takes pride in solutions where many small interactions combine to create complex dynamics. As the CEO of Rotational Labs, his goal is to apply advanced distributed computing, networking, open source software, education, and machine learning to solutions that allow us to collaborate more effectively around the world to solve big problems.
Blog Posts Written by Benjamin
HMAC Verification Tokens
In this post, we explore sending a secure message to a user that doesn’t have an account on your system and therefore cannot be authenticated. We’ll explore the use of HMAC verification tokens that you can email to a recipient …
Nov 6, 2024Data Access Controls for Generative AI
Anyone who has worked on a POSIX system is used to fine-grained data access rights for files and directories. In a world of generative AI, do we need a new permissions model for files used to train LLMs and serve live inferences?
Aug 26, 2024AI isn't Chatbots, it's an Interface
Why is everyone so excited by AI? Chatting with a bot isn’t the game changer. Instead, AI represents a new method of interacting with complex computing resources and data – one that is far more accessible than previous methods.
Jul 17, 2024Compression vs Cryptography: What Comes First?
Data encryption and compression are heavyweight algorithms that must be used with care in performance intensive applications; but when applying both mechanics to the same data, which should come first?
Oct 31, 2023How to Dockerize Python Data Science Processes
Docker is great, but most tutorials are geared toward devOps users, not data scientists. If you’re building long-running processes for NLP, ML, or generative AI, here’s a blueprint for Python Docker containers for data science!
Sep 14, 2023Speeding Up Go Tests
It can be frustrating as a developer to wait for a large test suite to run, particularly when you have to run the suite multiple times in development. In this post, we’ll explore parallel and short modes with Go tests in an effort to …
Jul 30, 2023