Cloud GPU Services for Deep Learning and fine-tuning with Jupyter Notebooks Reviewed: Colab, Paperspace Gradient, Lightning.ai, and more
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Your AI Engineering Blueprint
Transform your team and business with battle-tested architectures, RAG pipelines, and production-grade AI systems — honed at Cloudflare, Pinecone, and Fortune 500s, and distilled into code-first workshops.
Foundations
How do LLMs See Text?
Explore how large language models process and break down text into tokens for understanding.
Key Outcomes
Understand how language models process and interpret text at the token level
Embeddings & Vector Mathematics
Learn how vectors represent data in AI systems and the mathematical principles that power them.
Key Outcomes
Create powerful semantic search capabilities with vector embeddings
Data Science Fundamentals
Learn core data science tools and concepts for effective machine learning and analysis workflows.
Key Outcomes
Accelerate development time and ship AI applications with production-ready architectures
Intermediate & Advanced Topics
AI Implementation Strategies
Discover proven patterns and approaches for designing and implementing robust AI systems.
Key Outcomes
Accelerate development time and ship AI applications with production-ready architectures
Practical Machine Learning
Build real-world machine learning projects through hands-on tutorials and code examples.
Key Outcomes
Accelerate development time and ship AI applications with production-ready architectures
Retrieval Augmented Generation
Learn how to enhance LLMs with external knowledge sources to reduce hallucinations and improve accuracy.
Key Outcomes
Build AI systems that can access and reason with external knowledge sources
Specializations
Fine-tuning LLMs
Master techniques for customizing pre-trained language models to perform specific tasks in your domain.
Key Outcomes
Customize LLMs for specific tasks with higher accuracy and lower costs
Scaling Vector Infrastructure
Design vector database backed applications that efficiently handle millions of queries.
Key Outcomes
Design vector databases that scale to handle millions of queries efficiently
Enterprise Security for AI Systems
Implement fine-grained security controls for RAG systems and document management on AWS.
Key Outcomes
Ensure your AI systems enforce proper access controls to sensitive information
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Build a Chatbot That Actually Knows Your Shit
Learn to create a chatbot that answers questions about your content.
No hallucinations – Answers grounded in your docs
State of the art tech – Vercel AI SDK, embeddings, vector retrieval
Battle-tested – I've built production RAG pipelines for years
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Knowledge Collections
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⚙️ Open-source AI / ML / Pipelines Projects
Building a Hand-Drawn Digit Recognizer with PyTorch and MNIST
I trained a neural net to recognize hand-drawn digits, then built a Next.js UI for it
Build a RAG pipeline for your blog with LangChain, OpenAI and Pinecone
You can chat with my writing and ask me questions I've already answered even when I'm not around
Vector Databases in Production for Busy Engineers: RAG Evaluation
I wrote the RAG evaluation chapter for Pinecone's latest book
🤖 AI-assisted Development
Autocomplete is not all you need: Why Cursor and Zed are going to dominate
AI assisted developer tooling is not created equally...
Updated Codeium analysis and review
It's been about a year since I last looked at Codeium - what has changed?
Automations - shell scripts leveraging OpenAI to make your developer workflow buttery smooth and way more fun
I have open sourced my automations project, which is a collection of shell scripts that automatically handle git operations, provide local code reviews, pull requests, and more!
💼 Career Advice
Wash three walls with one bucket
Design your side projects, blog posts and even your fun experiments to triangulate multiple learning paths simultaneously. Then, use them to build out your portfolio.
Run your own tech blog
Control your own destiny, build your personal brand, and master web technologies by running your own tech blog.
You get to keep the neural connections
Going the extra mile only to be unrewarded by your company feels like a personal slight and a waste of your time. It is not.
🎥 Videos
How to build chat with your data using Pinecone, LangChain and OpenAI
I show step by step how to build a RAG chatbot to talk to your data in this easy to follow tutorial for beginners.
How to use ChatGPT in your terminal
Did you know you can use ChatGPT in your terminal? No more copying and pasting...
What is a vector database?
Vector databases explained, featuring clowns, embeddings, neural networks, feature extraction, semantic search and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG).
🏗️ Reference Architectures and Demos
Testing Pinecone Serverless at Scale with the AWS Reference Architecture
A step-by-step walkthrough on how to generate arbitrary system load and flex Pinecone Serverless
Announcing the Pinecone AWS Reference Architecture in Pulumi
Deploy production-ready systems using Pinecone in minutes with the AWS Reference Architecture
Pinecone AWS Reference Architecture Technical Walkthrough
An examination of the Reference Architecture components and functionality