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NVIDIA’s Project DIGITS: Bringing Petaflop-Scale AI to a Workstation Near You

Uncategorized / January 8, 2025

Introduction On January 6th at CES, NVIDIA officially unveiled NVIDIA® Project DIGITS, describing it as a personal AI supercomputer that gives AI researchers, data scientists, and students access to the power of the NVIDIA Grace Blackwell platform. The announcement caught my eye because “personal AI supercomputer” isn’t a phrase you hear every day, and I […]

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How to Turn Hacker News Stories into Podcasts with AI

Python / December 20, 2024

Introduction While experimenting with NotebookLM, a tool released by Google that can, among other things, convert your data (research papers, YouTube videos, etc.) into conversation-style podcasts, I realized it would be great to automate podcast generation for the regular content we consume every day. As a next step, I checked if Google had released an

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Getting Started with Ollama: How to Build Your First Local LLM App

AI Tools, Python / December 9, 2024

Introduction In a previous post, I wrote about running local LLMs using Ollama and briefly touched on how we can use the Ollama API to make programmatic calls to models running on Ollama. In this post, we’ll build our first application using Python and Ollama. If you are new to Ollama and local LLMs, I

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How to Use Ollama: A Hands-On Guide to Local AI Models

AI Tools, Python / November 19, 2024

Introduction After procrastinating for a long time about running LLMs locally, I finally decided to give it a try, and I chose Ollama to do it. In this post, I’ll share my experience of running these models on a MacBook Air M1 (8GB RAM). Additionally, I also tested them on a Ryzen 5650U Linux machine

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Getting Started with “Computer Use”: Anthropic’s new AI Capability

AI Tools / October 28, 2024

Setting Up Your System and Hands-On with Anthropic’s “Computer Use” Introduction Anthropic recently announced Claude 3.5, introducing two new models: Sonnet and Haiku. While Sonnet boasts significant improvements in coding, Haiku focuses on efficiency. Perhaps the most intriguing development, however, is the introduction of a “computer use” capability. Currently in beta, this feature allows Claude

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Why Settle for Generic When You Can Create Custom?

AI Tools, Python / October 5, 2024

Harnessing Generative AI to Bring Your Unique App Ideas to Life Introduction As a developer, when you have an idea for an app, the first step is to search for an existing solution. You might find something close, then evaluate: is it free, safe, and does it fit your needs? With development tools making app

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Introducing UV: The Next Evolution in Python Package Management

Python / September 14, 2024

What is a package manager ? Package manager is a utility that automates the process of installing, upgrading, and configuring dependencies in a programming environment. The popular package managers like pip, poetry, conda etc, download the dependencies from repositories like PyPI, and maintain specific versions of the same so that there are no conflicts when

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