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...

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...

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A Family of Geese Building categories and segments is a good task for an LLM. As I am looking for interesting trends around forecasting...

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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...

I first discovered Snowflake in 2018, after wrestling with Vertica's instability and Redshift's sky-high scaling costs. As organizations...

Soggy Titmouse Good architecture has consistent themes that can apply to many different systems. As I'm focusing on AI pipelines, here...

Brandi Carlile, Dolly Parton, and Tim Hanseroth Context is the notion that we start a conversation, and the context builds as we converse....

Iceland Airwaves 2023 Retrieval Augmented Generation with SQL Large Language Model (LLM) systems like ChatGPT or Anthropic seem genuinely...

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

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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...

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...

The upside to a regular job is a regular paycheck! The downside is that it distracts me from all the interesting things I can solo as a...

The Magnificant Icosahedron In Dungeons and Dragons, all characters have backstories. The iconic d20 also has a heroic backstory as a...

I'm in a principal role at my current company, and like every development team, it's easy to get lost in the constant noise of daily...

Interesting data scraping companies and tools. The internet is a wealth of data, and data scraping is a bit dodgy in terms of how you get...