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Introducing Wikipedia Monthly: Fresh, Clean Wikipedia Dumps for NLP & AI Research

Announcing Wikipedia Monthly, an always fresh dataset to support research for low-resource languages

Getting Perfectly Structured Data from LLMs

If you've ever struggled to get consistent JSON output from large language models, I have a simple and clever solution for you.

2024: A Year of Growth, Innovation, and Community

As we leave 2024 behind, I found myself reflecting over the holidays on a transformative year that reshaped my grasp of technology's role in human connection.

Datapluck: Portability Tool for Huggingface Datasets

Exporting & importing Hugging Face datasets to spreadsheets and various file formats.

OpenAI RAG: A Step Forward or a Step Too Far?

OpenAI's data integrations in Assistant and GPTs is causing ripples in the AI world. Beyond the excitement, let's look at OpenAI's strategy critically, the tension in its ecosystem, questionable comparisons to Apple, and the impending threat of commodification that OpenAI itself may face.

Web Scraping: Data For Everyone

We know what Data is, but where does it come from? With Web Scraping you can collect data from any website. This article will get you started in this world.

What is Data: A Brief Guide

An introduction to ease you into the world of data, what it is, what is it useful for and privacy concerns, as a preamble to the Data Series.

Shaping the Future with Sawalni: The Dawn of Moroccan AI

I've been asked multiple times, "Why are you creating a Moroccan AI?" Today I want to share the story behind Sawalni, the first AI in history to speak our beautiful Moroccan Darija, with all of you.

Tokens, the secret language of AI

Have you ever wondered how AI systems make sense of the vast amount of information they encounter? Let's look at AI tokens and why you should care.

DNS for non-Techies: Domains, Website Performance, and Content restrictions

New websites are launched every day and others stop existing overnight. Servers and IP addresses get repurposed. How does DNS keep it all together?

How I built my newsletter using Gmail and Google Sheets

I've recently wanted to add a newsletter to my blog. I decided to build it instead of using a marketing tool.

It starts with a message: Internet, DNS & Networks for non-Techies

There are over 22 billion machines connected to the internet. How do these machines communicate with each other to fulfil their purpose?

What happens when you open a TikTok?

Do you ever stop and think about the countless invisible components working behind the scenes to bring an app like TikTok to life on your phone?

How the Internet Works: The Essential Guide to Digital Infrastructure

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The Market Decides Your Project Scope

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Should you automate this task?

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