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January 6, 2026Building a Local DeepSeek R1 Chatbot with Chainlit
December 30, 2025Building a Local DeepSeek R1 Chatbot with Streamlit and Ollama
December 23, 2025How DSPy Optimizes Prompts
December 16, 2025How DSPy Builds Prompts
December 9, 2025DSPy: A Powerful (But Sometimes Dangerous) Prompting Tool
December 2, 2025DSPy: Prompt your LLM Like It's Code
November 25, 2025Google Gemini 3 Makes a Huge Leap on the ARC‑AGI Benchmark
November 18, 2025AI Tutorial: Build a Free Gemini AI Chat Agent with n8n
November 11, 2025AI Tutorial: Installing n8n Self Hosted Community Edition
November 4, 2025How to Install Node.js (for Windows)
October 21, 2025Cox's Theorem: Is Probability Theory Universal?
October 14, 2025From Certainty to Belief: How Probability Extends Logic - Part 3
October 7, 2025From Certainty to Belief: How Probability Extends Logic - Part 2
September 30, 2025From Certainty to Belief: How Probability Extends Logic - Part 1
September 26, 2025Dice Rolls, Coin Flips, and Death By Asteroid: A Probability Refresher
September 16, 2025Gemma 3 270M, the Little Model that Can't
September 9, 2025Keeping Your AI Chatbot on a Leash: Tiers of Agency
August 22, 2025AI Tutorial: A ReAct Agent Using Gemini and Haystack
August 1, 2025Using Gemini Function Calling to Build a Research Agent
July 24, 2025Writing a Robust “Do‑It‑All” Gemini API Caller in Python
July 17, 2025Google Quietly Ruins Gemini’s Free Tier
June 24, 2025AI Tutorial: One Logical Operator to Rule Them All!
June 17, 2025The Atomization of Thought
June 11, 2025Aristotle: The First AGI Researcher—A Primer on Propositional Logic
May 28, 2025AI Tutorial: What is Google AI Studio?
May 21, 2025AI Tutorial: Function Calling for a ReAct Agent
May 14, 2025Creating a UI for the Document Conversion Pipeline
May 7, 2025Giving Your RAG Chatbot Some Agency
April 29, 2025Letting Your Chatbot Determine Relevance of Documents
April 22, 2025Using Kokoro-82M to Convert a PDF to an Audiobook
April 15, 2025AI Karl Popper – A RAG Chatbot
April 8, 2025Hugging Face Spaces
March 26, 2025Google Gemini with Gradio
March 19, 2025Pulling It All Together: Docling for Loading PDFs
March 11, 2025Finding Paragraphs in PDFs - Using IBM’s Docling
March 4, 2025IBM’s Docling for Superior Text Loading from PDFs
February 27, 2025Using NLTK to Improve RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) Text Quality
February 18, 2025Docling for PDF to Markdown Conversion
February 12, 2025Llama.cpp for Large Language Models
February 4, 2025Explaining DeepSeek R1 (and How to Use It)
January 28, 2025Installing Ollama for Large Language Models (LLM) in Windows
January 21, 2025Reranking Documents Using Cross-Encoders for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
January 14, 2025Using Neo4j Graph Database for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
January 7, 2025Installing Neo4j Graph Database Desktop Version
January 1, 2025Installing Neo4J Graph Database Self-Managed for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
December 26, 2024How to Remove a File From a GitHub Repo
December 17, 2024AI Tutorial: Hybrid Search in Detail
December 11, 2024A Local Text-to-Speech Model Using Suno Bark
December 4, 2024Testing Hugging Face Serverless Text-To-Speech Models
November 26, 2024AI Tutorial: What is the Best Way to Load PDFs?
November 19, 2024PDFs vs HTML: The Importance of Metadata for Retrieval Augmented Generation
November 15, 2024Implementing a Lexical Search
November 8, 2024Hybrid Search for Retrieval Augmented Generation
October 29, 2024Our Open-Source AI Stack: The Book Search Archive
October 22, 2024An AI Tech Support Agent
October 1, 2024Haystack Streaming Text Generation
September 25, 2024Avoiding Text Truncations in RAG
September 17, 2024Using Hugging Face API Generators for RAG
September 10, 2024Google AI Integration with Haystack
September 3, 2024Retrieval Augmented Generation with Haystack and pgvector - Part 2
August 27, 2024Retrieval Augmented Generation with Haystack and pgvector
August 20, 2024Getting Started with Stable Diffusion: A Beginner's Guide
August 13, 2024Google Gemma Demo: Setting up a LLM with Text Streaming
August 6, 2024Writing a Custom Haystack Pipeline Component
July 30, 2024Environment Setup for RAG using Python, Haystack, PostgreSQL, pgvector, and Hugging Face
July 16, 2024Loading EPUB Files Using Haystack - A Haystack with pgvector Tutorial
July 2, 2024Psycopg Tutorial: Using pgvector to do Retrieval Augmented Generation
June 25, 2024Installing Haystack for pgvector in Preparation for Retrieval Augmented Generation
June 18, 2024A Short Explanation of Hierarchal Navigable Small Worlds (HNSW) Index for pgvector
June 12, 2024Installing pgvector in Preparation for Retrieval Augmented Generation
June 5, 2024Installing PostgreSQL in Preparation for Retrieval Augmented Generation
April 30, 2024Haystack, Google, and Gemma: A Tutorial
April 23, 2024LM Studio - The Easiest Way to get Started with Hugging Face LLMs
April 16, 2024Wikipedia and Google Gemini
April 9, 2024Getting Started with the Google Gemini API
April 2, 2024An Introduction to Hugging Face and Their Pipelines
March 26, 2024Installing BitsAndBtyes for Windows - So That You Can Do PEFT
March 19, 2024Semantic Search and Cosine Similarity
March 12, 2024Cosine Similarity
March 6, 2024Sparks of AGI
November 28, 2023What is Machine Learning?
April 16, 2019The Importance of Asking Why

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June 22, 2023Are Cloud Services Really the Future?

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August 25, 2023Native Isn't Really Better
July 24, 2023Deep Linking for iOS and Android using MAUI
June 21, 2023Why you should stop using outdated JavaScript libraries like jQuery and Lodash
June 18, 2021Imposter Syndrome As A Junior Engineer
August 28, 2018ASP.NET Core - How We Made a Mega Site Super Smooth and Lightning Fast
June 20, 2018Pulling Data From Midi File in Swift, Objective-C and CoreAudio
February 20, 2018How to Force Visual Studio 2017 to Use the Latest Node.js
June 23, 2017XAML Cheat Sheet
May 5, 2017An Introduction to Mocking Frameworks
March 15, 2017What Microsoft Technologies Should I Learn?

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October 21, 2017Planning For Growth

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October 24, 2023How HIPAA Affects Your Software
September 27, 2023How to Get Your Site WCAG Compliant - Part 4
September 20, 2023How to Get Your Site WCAG Compliant - Part 3
September 13, 2023How to Get Your Site WCAG Compliant - Part 2
September 6, 2023How to Get Your Site WCAG Compliant - Part 1

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December 11, 2024A Local Text-to-Speech Model Using Suno Bark

RSS Machine Learning

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January 6, 2026Building a Local DeepSeek R1 Chatbot with Chainlit
December 30, 2025Building a Local DeepSeek R1 Chatbot with Streamlit and Ollama
December 23, 2025How DSPy Optimizes Prompts
December 16, 2025How DSPy Builds Prompts
December 9, 2025DSPy: A Powerful (But Sometimes Dangerous) Prompting Tool
December 2, 2025DSPy: Prompt your LLM Like It's Code
November 25, 2025Google Gemini 3 Makes a Huge Leap on the ARC‑AGI Benchmark
November 18, 2025AI Tutorial: Build a Free Gemini AI Chat Agent with n8n
November 11, 2025AI Tutorial: Installing n8n Self Hosted Community Edition
November 4, 2025How to Install Node.js (for Windows)
October 21, 2025Cox's Theorem: Is Probability Theory Universal?
October 14, 2025From Certainty to Belief: How Probability Extends Logic - Part 3
October 7, 2025From Certainty to Belief: How Probability Extends Logic - Part 2
September 30, 2025From Certainty to Belief: How Probability Extends Logic - Part 1
September 26, 2025Dice Rolls, Coin Flips, and Death By Asteroid: A Probability Refresher
September 16, 2025Gemma 3 270M, the Little Model that Can't
September 9, 2025Keeping Your AI Chatbot on a Leash: Tiers of Agency
August 22, 2025AI Tutorial: A ReAct Agent Using Gemini and Haystack
August 1, 2025Using Gemini Function Calling to Build a Research Agent
July 24, 2025Writing a Robust “Do‑It‑All” Gemini API Caller in Python
July 17, 2025Google Quietly Ruins Gemini’s Free Tier
June 17, 2025The Atomization of Thought
June 11, 2025Aristotle: The First AGI Researcher—A Primer on Propositional Logic
May 28, 2025AI Tutorial: What is Google AI Studio?
May 21, 2025AI Tutorial: Function Calling for a ReAct Agent
May 14, 2025Creating a UI for the Document Conversion Pipeline
May 7, 2025Giving Your RAG Chatbot Some Agency
April 29, 2025Letting Your Chatbot Determine Relevance of Documents
April 22, 2025Using Kokoro-82M to Convert a PDF to an Audiobook
April 15, 2025AI Karl Popper – A RAG Chatbot
April 8, 2025Hugging Face Spaces
March 26, 2025Google Gemini with Gradio
March 19, 2025Pulling It All Together: Docling for Loading PDFs
March 11, 2025Finding Paragraphs in PDFs - Using IBM’s Docling
March 4, 2025IBM’s Docling for Superior Text Loading from PDFs
February 27, 2025Using NLTK to Improve RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) Text Quality
February 18, 2025Docling for PDF to Markdown Conversion
February 12, 2025Llama.cpp for Large Language Models
February 4, 2025Explaining DeepSeek R1 (and How to Use It)
January 28, 2025Installing Ollama for Large Language Models (LLM) in Windows
January 21, 2025Reranking Documents Using Cross-Encoders for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
January 14, 2025Using Neo4j Graph Database for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
January 7, 2025Installing Neo4j Graph Database Desktop Version
January 1, 2025Installing Neo4J Graph Database Self-Managed for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
December 26, 2024How to Remove a File From a GitHub Repo
December 17, 2024AI Tutorial: Hybrid Search in Detail
December 11, 2024A Local Text-to-Speech Model Using Suno Bark
December 4, 2024Testing Hugging Face Serverless Text-To-Speech Models
November 19, 2024PDFs vs HTML: The Importance of Metadata for Retrieval Augmented Generation
November 15, 2024Implementing a Lexical Search
November 8, 2024Hybrid Search for Retrieval Augmented Generation
October 29, 2024Our Open-Source AI Stack: The Book Search Archive
October 22, 2024An AI Tech Support Agent
October 1, 2024Haystack Streaming Text Generation
September 25, 2024Avoiding Text Truncations in RAG
September 17, 2024Using Hugging Face API Generators for RAG
September 10, 2024Google AI Integration with Haystack
September 3, 2024Retrieval Augmented Generation with Haystack and pgvector - Part 2
August 27, 2024Retrieval Augmented Generation with Haystack and pgvector
August 20, 2024Getting Started with Stable Diffusion: A Beginner's Guide
August 13, 2024Google Gemma Demo: Setting up a LLM with Text Streaming
August 6, 2024Writing a Custom Haystack Pipeline Component
July 30, 2024Environment Setup for RAG using Python, Haystack, PostgreSQL, pgvector, and Hugging Face
July 16, 2024Loading EPUB Files Using Haystack - A Haystack with pgvector Tutorial
July 2, 2024Psycopg Tutorial: Using pgvector to do Retrieval Augmented Generation
June 25, 2024Installing Haystack for pgvector in Preparation for Retrieval Augmented Generation
June 18, 2024A Short Explanation of Hierarchal Navigable Small Worlds (HNSW) Index for pgvector
June 12, 2024Installing pgvector in Preparation for Retrieval Augmented Generation
June 5, 2024Installing PostgreSQL in Preparation for Retrieval Augmented Generation
April 30, 2024Haystack, Google, and Gemma: A Tutorial
April 23, 2024LM Studio - The Easiest Way to get Started with Hugging Face LLMs
April 16, 2024Wikipedia and Google Gemini
April 9, 2024Getting Started with the Google Gemini API
April 2, 2024An Introduction to Hugging Face and Their Pipelines
March 26, 2024Installing BitsAndBtyes for Windows - So That You Can Do PEFT
March 19, 2024Semantic Search and Cosine Similarity
March 12, 2024Cosine Similarity
March 6, 2024Sparks of AGI
November 28, 2023What is Machine Learning?

RSS Mobile Applications

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August 25, 2023Native Isn't Really Better

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November 25, 2025Google Gemini 3 Makes a Huge Leap on the ARC‑AGI Benchmark
July 17, 2025Google Quietly Ruins Gemini’s Free Tier

RSS Propositional Logic

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October 21, 2025Cox's Theorem: Is Probability Theory Universal?
September 30, 2025From Certainty to Belief: How Probability Extends Logic - Part 1
September 26, 2025Dice Rolls, Coin Flips, and Death By Asteroid: A Probability Refresher

RSS Software Architecture

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August 28, 2018ASP.NET Core - How We Made a Mega Site Super Smooth and Lightning Fast

RSS startups

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October 21, 2017Planning For Growth

RSS Tutorials

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January 6, 2026Building a Local DeepSeek R1 Chatbot with Chainlit
December 30, 2025Building a Local DeepSeek R1 Chatbot with Streamlit and Ollama
December 23, 2025How DSPy Optimizes Prompts
December 16, 2025How DSPy Builds Prompts
December 9, 2025DSPy: A Powerful (But Sometimes Dangerous) Prompting Tool
December 2, 2025DSPy: Prompt your LLM Like It's Code
November 18, 2025AI Tutorial: Build a Free Gemini AI Chat Agent with n8n
November 11, 2025AI Tutorial: Installing n8n Self Hosted Community Edition
November 4, 2025How to Install Node.js (for Windows)
October 21, 2025Cox's Theorem: Is Probability Theory Universal?
October 14, 2025From Certainty to Belief: How Probability Extends Logic - Part 3
October 7, 2025From Certainty to Belief: How Probability Extends Logic - Part 2
September 30, 2025From Certainty to Belief: How Probability Extends Logic - Part 1
September 26, 2025Dice Rolls, Coin Flips, and Death By Asteroid: A Probability Refresher
September 16, 2025Gemma 3 270M, the Little Model that Can't
September 9, 2025Keeping Your AI Chatbot on a Leash: Tiers of Agency
August 22, 2025AI Tutorial: A ReAct Agent Using Gemini and Haystack
August 1, 2025Using Gemini Function Calling to Build a Research Agent
July 24, 2025Writing a Robust “Do‑It‑All” Gemini API Caller in Python
June 17, 2025The Atomization of Thought
June 11, 2025Aristotle: The First AGI Researcher—A Primer on Propositional Logic
May 28, 2025AI Tutorial: What is Google AI Studio?
May 21, 2025AI Tutorial: Function Calling for a ReAct Agent
May 14, 2025Creating a UI for the Document Conversion Pipeline
May 7, 2025Giving Your RAG Chatbot Some Agency
April 15, 2025AI Karl Popper – A RAG Chatbot
April 8, 2025Hugging Face Spaces

RSS Web

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February 2, 2017Umbraco CMS Tips and Tricks
January 4, 2017CSS Selectors, Specificity, and Pseudo-classes

RSS Web Development

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May 7, 2024Why Mindfire Tech Favors a Blazor Future
September 27, 2023How to Get Your Site WCAG Compliant - Part 4
September 20, 2023How to Get Your Site WCAG Compliant - Part 3
September 13, 2023How to Get Your Site WCAG Compliant - Part 2
September 6, 2023How to Get Your Site WCAG Compliant - Part 1

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  • Building a Local DeepSeek R1 Chatbot with Chainlit

    / Bruce Nielson

    In our last tutorial, we showed how to build a locally-ran Deepseek R1 chatbot using Streamlit. Today, we'll be trying a different Python package called Chainlit; a conversational AI application framework that provides an elegant, real-time chat interface out of the box.

  • Building a Local DeepSeek R1 Chatbot with Streamlit and Ollama

    / Bruce Nielson

    While DeepSeek R1 is no longer at the forefront of the news, it still continues to be a strong contender among LLMs and can be especially easy to use with locally ran AI chatbots. In today's AI tutorial by Bruce Nielson, we'll be showcasing how to build a simple and transparent local chatbot using DeepSeek and Ollama.

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    Merry Christmas from the Mindfire Team! As an early present, here is another free article from Bruce Nielson on DSPy, a powerful tool that turns Large Language Models into structured, type-safe Python functions. Today's article will discuss how you can optimize your DSPy results using MIPROv2.

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