ODSC '25 Recap
Conference recap time! I always love putting these together, I feel like it helps me solidify my understanding of the material and gi...
Ben Needs a Friend Version 2!
In LLM, tutorials, May 13, 2025
Discussing AI tech with the PyData community
In articles, Feb 03, 2025
Some thoughts on job searches
In updates, articles, Jun 10, 2024Ben Needs a Friend Version 2!
The last few months have been very busy! I’ll be slow-releasing some of the materials I’ve been working on.
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ODSC '25 Recap
Conference recap time! I always love putting these together, I feel like it helps me solidify my understanding of the material and gives me something to refer back to when I think of ...
In Conference recap, May 22, 2025
Ben Needs a Friend Version 2!
The last few months have been very busy! I’ll be slow-releasing some of the materials I’ve been working on.
In LLM, tutorials, May 13, 2025
Discussing AI tech with the PyData community
Wowee! Just wrapped up an excellent session with PyData Boston, a local meetup group that I, incidentally, co-lead. It’s always an inspiration to get together with the local tech comm...
In articles, Feb 03, 2025
Some thoughts on job searches
I recently had a very successful end to a particularly stressful job search and I thought it might be useful to share some of my experiences.
In updates, articles, Jun 10, 2024
Ben Needs a Friend tutorial release
It’s ready! In this repository you will find all the materials for my ODSC tutorial “Ben Needs a Friend”.
In LLM, tutorials, May 09, 2024
ODSC East 2024 Recap
It’s a wrap! ODSC East 2024 has come to and end and what a ride it was. I’ll have another post next week on the materials from my LLM application workshop, but for now I wanted to ge...
In Conference recap, Apr 26, 2024
Building a Command ARR+ agent
This month superstar LLM startup Cohere released their Command-R+ model. I experimented with this model to create a functional (and free!) agent workflow to look up local events.
In tutorial, LLM, Apr 11, 2024
Teaching text representation techniques
This is an update of some materials from my Harvard NLP course. I focused here on three methods for representation of text data that are simple, quick and transparent. This is part ...
In tutorial, NLP, Mar 29, 2024
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