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Embeddings

Embeddings are mathematical representations of words, phrases, images, or any content that capture their meaning in a form that computers can process. They convert the fuzzy, complex world of human …

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Vector Databases Explained

Have you noticed how "vector database" keeps popping up in conversations about AI lately? It seems like everyone's talking about them, but what are they really? From Card Catalogs to …

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Swappable LLM Architectures: Building Flexible AI Systems

In today's fast-evolving AI landscape, new models emerge daily, pricing structures change, and performance improvements happen constantly. I'm always wondering how to structure code and build apps or scripts in …

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Enhancing your Ollama experience with OpenWebUI

February 26, 2025

Following up on my previous post about getting phi3 running locally - while the command line interface is functional, a proper UI can improve the interaction with these powerful models …

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Running Local AI with Ollama

February 25, 2025

Why Even Bother Running AI Locally? Hey, imagine this: you’re playing with AI. Asking wild questions, generating stuff. And it’s not on some distant server - it’s right on your …

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Exploring the VS Code Jupyter Interactive Window

February 20, 2025

So, if you’re into Python—like, coding or messing with data—you’ve probably played around with Jupyter Notebooks. They’re awesome for hacking away at stuff, plotting things out, or just throwing ideas …

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IT Blog Awards by Cisco

November 22, 2022

Today I've received a badge from Cisco. I made the finalist for the IT Blog Awards 2019 by Cisco in the Best Newcomer category! Discover all the awesome podcasts and …

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Go Defer

November 22, 2022

The function is waiting until the surrounding function returns. Note: the deferred call's arguments are evaluated immediately, but executed at the end func main() { defer fmt.Println("defer 1") fmt.Println("hello") } …

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Go Slices

November 17, 2022

If we need a dynamic arrays - dynamically sized- go has Slices which are much more common than arrays. Same concept, but just with no size. []type{} A slice does …

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Go Slog

November 17, 2022

Who does not love logging? Heard of a lightweight, extensible, configurable logging library written in Golang - slog. Quick review on how to use it for my reference. package main …

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Go Loops

November 17, 2022

There is For loop in Go, pretty easy:) while True = just for for { fmt.Printf("Slice time:\n") } For each in = range (similar to enumerate() in Python) is used …

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Go Switch

November 16, 2022

I like switch in Go. func main() { all := []string{"Denver", "London", "NY", "SF"} for _, city := range all { switch city { case "Denver": // code for Denver …

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Go Arrays

November 7, 2022

Arrays have size - a fixed size, and cannot be resized (length is part of its type). How to declare: [size]type{} To create an empty array: var a [2]string an …

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FastAPI built-in API docs

November 4, 2022

FastAPI has two documentations: by swagger-ui (yourfastapiurl:port/docs) by redoc (yourfastapiurl:port/redoc) from fastapi import FastAPI app = FastAPI() @app.get("/") async def root(): return {"result": "It's working"} @app.get("/ise/{mac_address}") async def ise_search_mac_address(mac_address): return …

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Go Web App

November 3, 2022

Learning Go is exciting. Decided to see how to set up a Web Application or API using Go language along with FastAPI implementation. package main import ( "log" "net/http" ) …

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FastAPI Parameters

November 1, 2022

A quick note about how to pass parameters @app.get("/ise/{mac_address}") async def ise_search_mac_address(mac_address): return {"Search MAC": mac_address} Another example: @app.get("/{mode}/ise") async def ise_mode(mode): if mode == 'dev': return {'result': "Working with …

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FastAPI Quick Start

October 31, 2022

Short and easy FastAPI startup for a quick playground and testing. pip install fastapi pip install uvicorn -- main.py -- from fastapi import FastAPI app = FastAPI() @app.get("/") def read_root(): …

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FastAPI Background Tasks

October 28, 2022

Nice, useful, and easy-to-use feature in FastAPI. It allows responding to the client and doing whatever needs to be done after the request, the client doesn't have to wait for …

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Postman Environment Variables

February 3, 2022

Using Environment in Postman is one of the best things that we can use during the testing and while playing around with API. Postman makes this development phase much easier. …

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Python Logging

I decided to take a look into Python Logging and start using it instead of print(). Everything is here: Logging HOWTO. DEBUG - Detailed information, typically of interest only when …

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Cisco Champion 2020

January 6, 2020

Thrilled to be selected as a CiscoChampion for the first time! Great way to start off 2020!💥

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Cisco NX-OS: From vPC to Back-to-Back vPC

October 22, 2019

The vPC Peer Link should never be blocking because this link carries important traffic such as the Cisco Fabric Services over Ethernet (CFSoE) Protocol. The peer link is always forwarding. …

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Cisco NX-OS: vPC Configuration

October 17, 2019

vPC Order of Operations 1. IP connectivity for Peer Keepalive 2. Enable vPC & LACP globally 3. Create vPC domain * define Peer Keepalive address * configure vPC role priority …

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