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Hammers 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
Read MoreWord 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,
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Mandelbrot 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
Read MoreLearning 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
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Project52 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
Read MoreThe 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
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Hyperledger, 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
Read MoreTwo Chatbots Walk Into A Bar…
26-October-2024 By Jeffrey Cooper
This week for Project52 (Week 5), I decided to add Anthropic’s Claude to the list of LLM’s I’ve integrated with. The AI Assisted Personal Trainer Simulation used OpenAI’s APIs. For this project, I decided I wanted to have ChatGPT and Claude talk to each other, in a back and forth banter. I allow you, the user, to
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Faster Code Development Using Generative AI
16-October-2024 By Jeffrey Cooper
I’ve been using Generative AI the past month or so to write code for me. So far, it has been to speed up learning new skills, such as Python, in a targeted way. But this week (Week 4 of Project52) is different. iOS 18 started this. My favorite, if obscure, grocery list app was no
Read MoreMandelbrot Explorer
14-October-2024 By Jeffrey Cooper
This week’s project (Week 3) is a standalone Mandelbrot explorer. I had planned to deploy it to AWS, but that will be a future project for now due to a couple of issues and a time crunch. Part of the goal was to continue to explore Python and its vast set of available libraries, and
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