Posts

Experiments, implementation notes, and occasional musings. The common thread is simple: build something, measure it, and write down what changed my mind.

Orchid Bot printing assistant with suggested customer questions

AI Powered Small-Business ChatBot

Building a retrieval-augmented chatbot for small-business information and exploring where RAG helps—and where it does not.

Animated Snoop Dogg GIF from the Snoop-Speare demo

Building Snoop-Speare

Fine-tuning a small language model on Snoop Dogg and Shakespeare to explore data preparation, tokenization, and causal language modeling.

A grid of grayscale Fashion-MNIST clothing images and their labels

High-Performance Image Classification with PyTorch and Hugging Face

Fine-tuning a pretrained Vision Transformer on a 6,000-image subset of Fashion-MNIST, with a custom PyTorch training loop and a macro F1 score of 0.9318.