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How we won Product of the Week on Product Hunt

A guide to launching on Product Hunt and winning Product of the Day and Product of the Week

A Beginner's Guide to Vector Embeddings

The simplest guide to vector embeddings in practice and how to use them, including video demos solving real problems at our startup by quantifying text meaning for classification and similarity tasks.

Your LLM Problem Isn't Tooling. It's Effort

Getting great LLM output with an LLM-as-a-judge requires more effort, not more tools

AI Needs Us? Information Theory and Humans as data

Why superintelligent AI would protect humanity as a source of complexity and knowledge

Can we detect AI-generated text?

I tested 5 AI-text detectors that claim to detect LLM-generated text. The outcome: they don't work well.

Train an AI to generate text with Python 🧠

We'll train a real GPT AI language model from scratch using Python on macOS, specifically designed to generate Shakespearean text, using the Tiny Shakespeare dataset.

Add inline AI suggestions to your Django app 🗯

Use a fast LLM, HTMX, and Photon Designer to recommend actions to the user.

Build a Django AI colorization app 🎨🦾

Use Django and webhooks to build an app that uses AI to color black and white photos.