Tag: Generative AI
From 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
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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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 MoreFaster 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
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Interactive AI-Assisted Personal Trainer Simula...
6-October-2024 By Jeffrey Cooper
I’ve been eager to try this for a while, to explore how an LLM, such as ChatGPT, could enhance the gym experience. In particular, I’m keen to explore the potentially useful capabilities of LLMs. This is Week 2 in Project52. To try to pop the hype bubble a bit- this is not intended to show
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