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Word Hammer, v2.0
30-June-2025 By Jeffrey Cooper
Welcome to my long-awaited follow-up to the POC version of Word Hammer that I released last December. After some positive feedback and serious use by myself, I decided to create a much more capable version! This became an obsession for me for a few months as I am working diligently on becoming fluent in Spanish
Read MoreFrom RAGs to Niches (Part 1)
22-June-2025 By Jeffrey Cooper
tl;dr I built “Booker,” a specialized RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) chatbot that can answer questions about any book (in this case, my book on 3D photography), and this article walks through the entire technical journey. RAG combines the language skills of LLMs with “book smarts” around specific knowledge collections, letting you create focused AI assistants
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Busy Year, Busy Mind
9-June-2025 By Jeffrey Cooper
Welcome back to Running Thoughts! It’s been a while since the last article. Nothing has changed in that I am still working feverishly in AI. So much has happened and I’m a lightyear beyond where I left off. As things go, about a quarter of the way into Project 52, the ideas were coming in so
Read MoreHammers Before Heroes
18-December-2024 By Jeffrey Cooper
For my Project 52 the past week, I spent it on testing, rather than creating. I have had fun doing it (I’m not finished yet). I have a friend at a startup who is beta testing a product that utilizes an LLM as a key part of it. I volunteered to test it. I like
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Word Hammer on SambaNova- Using Cursor AI-Assis...
9-December-2024 By Jeffrey Cooper
This week’s app is called Word Hammer, intended to be a foreign language enhancement application. It will hammer you on specific concepts until you get it. This project certainly took longer than expected, though. I will discuss both the application itself, which I plan to use a lot, and the what-became-arduous process of creating it,
Read MoreMandelbrot Explorer- Hosted on Streamlit
26-November-2024 By Jeffrey Cooper
A friend of mine from a Meetup suggested trying out the Streamlit service for the Mandelbrot (and other) Python apps. Last month, I had deployed the Mandelbrot Explorer on my machine, using Flask to handle the web server aspect and call to the Python code, running on my machine. Deploying this publicly requires a bit
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Learning Curves
19-November-2024 By Jeffrey Cooper
This past week has been a cycle of 3 steps forward and 2 steps backward (hence the meandering graphic in the header image). I am getting a good feel for Hyperledger, but it is despite the tools that are needed for it. To learn it, I needed to install quite a few tools on my
Read MoreProject52 Project Tracker & Small Project U...
11-November-2024 By Jeffrey Cooper
All projects in Project52 will be listed in reverse order, with the latest on top. While many projects will have their own blog posts, smaller ones or multiweek subprojects will have some details in this catch-all post. Todos proyectos en Project52 serán listado en orden inverso, con el ultimo en la encima. Mientras muchos proyectos
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The Coming Battle of Generative (Dis)Informatio...
8-November-2024 By Jeffrey Cooper
Those who know me know that I take an End State Analysis view of system architecture. I like to look forward, in the early stages of the design cycle, at what I term “the eventual outcome,” or “final state.” I like to project far into the future what might be coming given the arrows of
Read MoreHyperledger, Part 1
3-November-2024 By Jeffrey Cooper
As I get deeper into Project 52, I am taking on some bigger projects, projects that will span multiple weeks due to their size and complexity. This is such a week (Week 6). This week, I decided to start learning Hyperledger. I chose the header image to visually convey the size and complexity of Hyperledger and
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