At their core, companies are complex systems with multiple inputs, including capital, labor, and ideas. They ideally produce a well-defined output, whether it’s a product or a set of products. The intricate machinery that operates between these inputs and outputs is where the heart of a company lies. This is…

Introduction When I embarked on my journey to research the best tools for an upcoming application project in my solopreneur business, my focus naturally gravitated towards a critical aspect of any application: the database. How to seamlessly manage data, integrate it into my app, ensure scalability, and abstract complexities has been…

Over the past few decades, very few things have fascinated me as much as the concept and practice of capital markets. It’s a topic that ignites my curiosity and engages my thinking on various levels: data, computing, money, analysis, and more. Throughout the years, whether through television, books, online forums…

While ChatGPT has certainly made a significant impact as a leading generative AI, text-to-image models have also gained prominence and popularity. In a short span of time, numerous text-to-image services have emerged, offering their own trained models or repackaging existing models. These AI-generated images have become widely popular on social…

It has been approximately 7 months (as of the time of writing) since ChatGPT was released to the public. During this relatively short period, numerous new Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged, prompting the business world to hastily navigate the profound transformation caused by these developments. As LLMs continue to…

I’ve been exploring the AI/ML/LLM ecosystem lately and have come across some new tools in the Python/Jupyter ecosystem. One of these tools is pygwalker, which is a fantastic library that works with pandas (or Polars) and Jupyter Lab. It’s super straightforward to get started using it and exploring your data…

A few weeks ago a former co-worker (and overall awesome guy) posted this experiment/idea. Today, I finally gave it a try. And it delivered as promised. (note: I’m a cheapskate, so, putting down the CC to pay for OpenAI API was a mental hurdle I had to get over. And…

For almost 50 years, starting from the time of Xerox Labs, engineers and scientists, there has been an ongoing effort to develop a collection of patterns and a formal field of study for human-computer interaction. As computers, programs, devices, have all evolved tremendously, so have the need for user experience…

A lot of the tutorials I’ve seen for getting a basic LLM stack locally make the assumption the user has a Mac or Linux machine. Maybe the assumption makes sense given the prevalence of these two platforms in tech circles. However, a big swath of the world runs on Windows…