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BrainExpanded – Login State Caching Issue in iOS Share Extension
As part of the BrainExpanded project, I’m building an iOS app that lets users easily add links, text, and images to the “brain’s memory.” Once in the memory, various agents process the content to make it more accessible and useful (see previous posts for a description). The app’s XCode project has two targets: the main…
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Is AI Good or Bad?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has rapidly evolved over the past few decades, becoming an integral part of our daily lives. From enhancing the capabilities of our smartphones to revolutionizing industries such as healthcare, finance, and transportation, AI technologies hold immense potential. But is AI a hero or a villain? This question sparks endless debates as we…
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BrainExpanded – Copilot
Happy New Year everyone! I was planning for my next BrainExpanded post to be a report of the entire end-to-end experience and backend working. However, a coding-related moment with Microsoft’s Github Copilot led me to this note. Previous posts Over the holidays, I made good progress on BrainExpanded. It’s been so much fun! The initial…
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BrainExpanded – The Timeline
See “BrainExpanded – Introduction” for context on this post. Notes and links Over the years, I used various ways to capture personal notes, TODOs, and articles/videos I encountered. I thought that I would go back to them, recall information I captured, and retrieve knowlege from those articles or videos. I used note-capturing apps, bookmarking apps,…
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BrainExpanded – Introduction
This is the first post, in what I think is going to be a series, about another side project of mine: BrainExpanded (yes, I also own the .com and .ai domains, just in case). As mentioned in my “Digital twin follow up” post, BraindExpanded is yet another way for me to learn new technologies and…
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Digital twin follow up
Back in February, I shared the results of some initial experimentation with a digital twin. It was my way of learning tools such as langchain, ollama, vector stores for retrieval, etc. Then work got in the way and I never followed up. Until now. While still thinking about the digital twin, I started pondering about…
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Digital Twin (my playground)
I am embarking on a side project that involves memory and multimodal understanding for an assistant so I wanted to start exploring the technologies involved. My “Digital Twin” is one of my playgrounds for learning and practicing with relevant technologies such as Python, LLMs, Langchain, Ollama, etc. I also started using Swift but that’s a…
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“This is exactly what LLMs are made for”
I was in Toronto, Canada. I’m on the flight back home now. The trip was very productive. A few of us went there to meet part of our team and discuss our plans for the coming months. First time in Toronto. Beautiful city. Next time I’ll make a point of staying longer. Stefan Scherer (a…
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“How we fell out of love with voice assistants”
The BBC article “How we fell out of love with voice assistants” by Katherine Latham is no surprise to me. It reminds me of numerous conversations during my Cortana and Alexa days about the importance of user value and trust. We tracked and tried to optimize many metrics. When we started paying more attention and…
