AI continues to leak into every part of business, and for the most part, I can see some sort of value proposition for the various features and products. Vision models have provided improvements over traditional OCR techniques, agentic patterns have enabled automation of more mundane tasks, and chat interfaces have given users a seach product that can provide answers to their specific question.…
I can now add 'Published Author' to my resume and if you look at my book on Amazon, I'm sure you will be impressed! Not everyone is able to churn out a book with OVER 40 pages like I can, and I didn't even need to include any pictures! Hopefully by now you realize I am being facetious. My 'book' that I published has less than 300 words. It would be more appropriate to call it a coloring book,…
Let me start with a disclaimer. This is not a how-to guide on how to replace a breaker. Working on breakers, live wires, and electrical panels can be extremely dangerous. If you are not confident in your handyman abilities, the money spent on an electrician will be well worth it. With that out of the way, let us move on to my situation. My wife and I bought our house in June of 2026. Shortly after…
When I hear generational wealth mentioned, there is a certain image that I get in my head. Private jets, multiple houses, and never having to think about what something costs. There is probably a staff consisting of landscapers, housekeepers, nannies, lawyers, and accountants just to name a few. It is what I think about when I think of how the ultra-wealthy live their lives. With this image in…
In a previous post , I explained some of the basic concepts of how caches work in hardware at the CPU level. As I mentioned to start that post, caching is used in many different areas of computer science. So how can you use this new knowledge you have gained? One way you might want to implement a cache is if you have expensive database calls. Let's say that you have a web app where you are…
At the age of 30, I have finally found the most effective way for me to learn a subject. I am currently in Georgia Tech's OMSCS program and have been learning about computer architecture. With online lectures, it can sometimes be challenging for me to stay engaged. The vidoes may be playing and I am looking at the screen, but I zone out and end up not knowing what was just taught. This snowballs…
I think it is fair to say that most people have an idea of what caching does at a variety of levels. To someone not in tech, "clearing your cache" (also those yummy cookies!) is a way to get your browser to update. So it is understood that some data is stored pretty close to you. To someone in tech, you may understand that caching data is a way to keep it accessible so that you don't have to go…
One thing that has always tripped me up with Python is the import system. Everytime I think I understand how it works, I run some code and get more import errors. But I think I now have a complete understanding of how it works, so let's dive in. What is sys.path ? To see how the Python import system works, we have to start by understanding where Python looks for code when there is an import. This…
Large Language Models (LLM's) have exploded in popularity in the last year. As such, I have found there to be many new "AI Practitioners". These are people who I have found to not have the strongest understanding of some of the technical details surrounding these models and their various applications. This is not to generalize any one individual as not being technical. A software engineer who…
A few hours after Google announced their new family of language models named Gemini, I was asked what I thought about them. I gave an honest answer, that I hadn't really looked into them. I saw a headline that they had were released, and shrugged it off. Why? Well, I'm kind of sick of them.. When I say this, it is not meant to discredit or downplay how impressive the models are. The ability to ask…
Welcome to my blog! I am very excited to begin this project as I expect to be able to learn a lot from it. My hope is that you will be able to pick something up along the way, whether it is a better understanding of a specific topic or an appreciation for a different viewpoint. As I am sure you may have noticed, this isn't the prettiest site at the moment. I wanted to build this blog from scratch,…