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Calling AWS Bedrock from code

Image by Author Using Python in a Jupyter notebook Many of you will know that every man and his dog are producing AI products or LLM’s and integrating them with their products. Not surprisingly AWS — the biggest cloud services provider — is also getting in on the act. What is bedrock? Its AI offering […]

Pandas v Psycopg:

Image by Author Following on from a story I wrote comparing the speed of Pandas and Polars libraries in terms of reading and writing data — from and to — a Postgres database I thought it might be interesting to do a similar comparison between Pandas and Psycopg2. If you need to get data from […]

Integrating Psychology into Software Development

Emotional Architecture in Software Design 14 min read · Nov 10, 2023 Photo by Bret Kavanaugh on Unsplash Imagine sitting down at your desk to untangle a particularly complex piece of software code. Your eyes scan lines packed with logical operations and function calls. Somewhere in this intricate weave, a bug lurks, derailing the application’s […]

GPT Function Calling: 5 Underrated Use Cases

OpenAI’s backend converting messy unstructured data to structured data via functions OpenAI’s “Function Calling” might be the most groundbreaking yet under appreciated feature released by any software company… ever. Functions allow you to turn unstructured data into structured data. This might not sound all that groundbreaking but when you consider that 90% of data processing […]

Deploy CoreML Models on the Server with Vapor

Recently, at Sovrn, we had an AI Hackathon where we were encouraged to experiment with anything related to machine learning. The Hackathon yielded some fantastic projects from across the company. Everything from SQL query generators to chatbots that can answer questions about our products and other incredible work. I thought this would be a great […]

Full Stack Engineers Don’t Exist!

There’s a problem with those thousands of jobs available for Full Stack Engineers or Developers on LinkedIn, like a unicorn, that person isn’t real. Insert spit-take, read it, then tell me what you think. Photo by Paul Bill on Unsplash There I said it, you might think this is a controversial or unpopular opinion but […]

The Reasoning Computer

The Turing test is dead, and we killed it. The Turing test is a test of a machine’s ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human. From the 1940s to the 2010s people programmed computers, and computers could only do what they were programmed to do in a rules-based […]