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Tim Burns
The Owl Mountain Blog is the authors views on the Fascianting World of Data
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A None Query Creates Results
I'm working on an AI RAG client that builds an event list from a poster submitted by an app user. I have been exploring an interesting...

Tim Burns
Jul 61 min read
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Who doesn't love a good hallucination?
Books on my shelf As part of my Little Library project to create AI catalogs from photos, I've encountered an interesting AI challenge:...

Tim Burns
Jun 261 min read
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Reflections on AI, Boats, and Father's Day
I've spent the last few weeks digging deeply into agents. Three months after embarking on the Azrius Analytics adventure, I feel like I'm...

Tim Burns
Jun 233 min read
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Lessons Learned from trying to get Feng Shui from AI Chat Models
https://azri.us I've spent the last month working on getting AI Chat Models to do Feng Shui from oriented camera pictures of rooms, and...

Tim Burns
Jun 195 min read
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I have created an AI Zen Guide
As I play with my AI toolkit, Azrius Analytics , I am thrilled to create projects, turn on my phone's camera, and capture images that...

Tim Burns
Jun 156 min read
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Getting Bedrock to Recognize Images
AWS's Bedrock documentation is a bit of a disaster. It took me a while to get some code to generate image descriptions. I finally found...

Tim Burns
Jun 61 min read
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I Love AI So Much
AI is the best toy ever.

Tim Burns
May 301 min read
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Live Fully and Embrace AI
The Author Hanging with an AI I read the NYT piece, " AI Is Coming for the Coders Who Wrote it , " and found it both irritating and...

Tim Burns
May 302 min read
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Using LLM to Compress Columns
A Family of Geese Building categories and segments is a good task for an LLM. As I am looking for interesting trends around forecasting...

Tim Burns
May 281 min read
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In Search of Forecasting
Comparing Seasonal Lag on Liquor Store Sales Finding Seasonal Correlations Liquor store data seems like a good test set for building out...

Tim Burns
May 201 min read
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Without Empathy, the Future of Men is Bleak
The rise of MAGA was a sign of hopelessness among young men. They identified with Trump and Musk and the brand of callous and wealthy...

Tim Burns
May 192 min read
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Snowflake Trifecta: Data Extraction, Time-Series Forecasting, and Cortex LLMs
I first discovered Snowflake in 2018, after wrestling with Vertica's instability and Redshift's sky-high scaling costs. As organizations...

Tim Burns
May 102 min read
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Components of an AI Pipeline
Soggy Titmouse Good architecture has consistent themes that can apply to many different systems. As I'm focusing on AI pipelines, here...

Tim Burns
Mar 312 min read
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Dagster Pipelines for the Playlist Data
Brandi Carlile, Dolly Parton, and Tim Hanseroth Context is the notion that we start a conversation, and the context builds as we converse....

Tim Burns
Mar 282 min read
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A Musical Introduction to RAG
Iceland Airwaves 2023 Retrieval Augmented Generation with SQL Large Language Model (LLM) systems like ChatGPT or Anthropic seem genuinely...

Tim Burns
Mar 202 min read
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Why Kafka
Why Kafka? Kafka, not the author, is a foundational tool that enables a real-time distributed data stack. It's scary to the technically...

Tim Burns
Mar 101 min read
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1984/03/19/the-unbearable-lightness-of-being As a chapter closes, I am opening a new chapter. More...

Tim Burns
Feb 151 min read
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The Road Goes Ever On - My January Leitmotif
The Road Goes Ever On I've always loved both metal and classical music. The first classical album that captured my imagination was Peer...

Tim Burns
Jan 203 min read
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Role-Playing One-Shots Based on Music
Janelle Monae's "The Chase" I'm listening to Janelle Monáe's "The Chase" EP. It is an alter-ego backstory set in a dystopian future of...

Tim Burns
Jan 181 min read
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Adding to the MLFlow Pipeline - Conformal Prediction
As I'm building out my MYFlow pipeline, I'm looking for ML Models that are both interesting and valuable. Conformal Prediction is a hot...

Tim Burns
Jan 41 min read
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