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5 Ways to Inject AI into Your Business Jan 23, 2025

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming industries by automating tedious tasks and optimizing workflows. Whether you're a small business owner or managing a growing enterprise, there are several practical ways to leverage AI for improved efficiency and productivity. Here are five actionable ide...

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What Are Your True Skills? Nov 21, 2024

The team sat at the table and cast our votes on the interview candidate. I was the only one who picked her second on the list instead of first. She didn’t have enough experience. She didn’t answer the questions with enough confidence. Fortunately the rest of my team overruled me. This employee went ...

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Make your first API call to Groq/Llama (for free) Nov 18, 2024

If you're ready to move beyond interacting with LLM-powered chatbots like ChatGPT and into using the power of LLMs inside your personal automations, then it's time to start making API connections.

OpenAI (the maker of ChatGPT) provides a great API for accessing the ChatGPT AI models, but unfortunat...

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The 3 AI "Archetype" Models that Make Up Most Business Use-Cases Nov 12, 2024

In the vast AI landscape that we face today, which is actually much less complicated than it looks as we learned on day one, there are only a couple of "archetype" models you have to worry about for most of the use-cases your company will have.

Our Story Begins with Charles

This is Charles. He'...

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You Think AI is Intelligent, Actually It's Just Guessing general Nov 07, 2024

The AI marketing machine doesn't want you to know something. It's a secret that's been around since WWII, maybe even earlier.

Up until the past 10 years, most computer software you dealt with always behaved the same way. If you gave it a list of employees and asked it to do payroll for those employ...

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A Very Simple Example of Fine-Tuning an LLM llm technical Aug 16, 2024

Normally when you fine-tune an LLM you end up making Jeff Bezos just a little bit richer due to the enormous compute power required even for the simplest of fine-tuning. I tried every free avenue I could think of to demonstrate fine-tuning using Mistral-7B-Instruct, but it failed on Google Colab fre...

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How to Create Your First Hugging Face Dataset llm technical Aug 12, 2024

Modern AI tooling is mainly based on building models trained by lots of data rather than developing clever algorithms. This means that once you move beyond the basics of calling models others have developed and want to start training your own models, you'll need some data to do that training with.

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In a Few Words, What is Few-shot Learning? llm technical Aug 07, 2024

Imagine that you went to high school in a place where everyone was rich except for you. Your parents had very mediocre jobs, enough to put food on the table and pay for school fees but nothing else.

Further imagine that you didn't want anyone else to know this. How would you cover it up?

First, yo...

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Sassy Food Service Bot. Careful. Few-shot Learning is Powerful Aug 06, 2024

Most AIs are almost annoyingly polite. I wondered how easy it would be to make a chatbot that delights in giving sass to customers. Well, turns out just 3 few-shot learning examples was enough.

Don't try this at work kids!

First, get set up with a Jupytr notebook (see my post on working with Googl...

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Why Would You Ever Fine-tune an LLM? Aug 01, 2024

You can get pretty good results with few-shot prompt templates, why would you go to the trouble of spending expensive GPU hours to fine-tune an LLM with essentially the same process as few-shot prompt templates?

It basically comes down to data. How much do you have?

If all the data you have avai...

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Prompt Engineering Frisbee llm prompt-engineering technical Jul 31, 2024

Let's play a game of prompt engineering frisbee.

Rules: Each person takes a turn creating a prompt template and tries to get the LLM to respond in a believable way based on the template. The first person whose prompt fails to produce a convincing result loses the round.

Setup

Let's start with the...

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Create a Hugging Face API Token llm technical Jul 31, 2024

To be able to interact with the Hugging Face community, you need to create an API token. Let's take a look at the steps.

  1. Sign up for Hugging Face
    If you haven't gotten an account yet, sign up here: https://huggingface.co/join

  2. Hover over the account icon in the upper right corner and choose

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