Category/Tag: Machine Learning

Implementing Qwen3-TTS in My PDF-to-Audiobook Pipeline (Qwen3-TTS, Part 1)

Implementing Qwen3-TTS in My PDF-to-Audiobook Pipeline (Qwen3-TTS, Part 1)

What if you could turn any PDF into an audiobook and fine-tune the narrator's voice with nothing but a plain English instruction? Alibaba just open-sourced Qwen3-TTS, and it's worth paying attention to — nine built-in speakers, natural language style control, and weights you can run on a laptop GPU. But does it actually sound good enough to listen to for hours? The answer might surprise you.

Machine Learning 101: The Key Concepts Behind Every Learning Algorithm

Machine Learning 101: The Key Concepts Behind Every Learning Algorithm

Machine learning textbooks have their own vocabulary. But behind the jargon lies a process that would be deeply familiar to Karl Popper: conjecture and refutation. This post is a short reference guide

Book2Audio: Reviving My PDF-to-Audiobook Project (and Fighting Dependency Hell Along the Way)

Book2Audio: Reviving My PDF-to-Audiobook Project (and Fighting Dependency Hell Along the Way)

Converting PDFs to audiobooks sounds simple. It is not. Memory crashes, dependency hell, and software updates that break more than they fix — but the result is a working open-source pipeline that turns any PDF into audio you'd actually want to listen to. And the best parts are still coming.

Induction is a Myth: The Futility of Unbiased Learning

Induction is a Myth: The Futility of Unbiased Learning

A philosopher and a computer scientist walk into the same conclusion from opposite directions: you can't learn anything from data alone. Popper said induction was a myth. Mitchell proved it mathematically. And the punchline? Every machine learning algorithm that does generalize is secretly running deduction in disguise — the "induction" was never really there.

Adventures in LangChain's "Quick Start Tutorial" (Using Ollama)

Adventures in LangChain's "Quick Start Tutorial" (Using Ollama)

LangChain is a great framework for turning chatbots into functional tools. Today, we'll be having a look at LangChain's own Quick Start Tutorial and how we were able to get it to work with Ollama for a free.

Weekend Warrior Project: AI Patent Checking

Weekend Warrior Project: AI Patent Checking

Every day we hear about how AI is constantly improving in its intelligence and its capabilities, but many still wonder how AI can actually help improve their daily workloads. In today's AI tutorial, we'll be showcasing a real-world example of how we were able to build and use an AI agent to help us sift through the millions of patents that exist in the USPTO records; turning weeks of work into mere hours (including the time it took to build the AI agent).

From Prompts to Applications: A Beginner’s Introduction to LangChain

From Prompts to Applications: A Beginner’s Introduction to LangChain

As magical as AI systems appear to be, in order for them to actually produce anything useful they first need an ordered structure to follow. LangChain, one such structure, is a framework that can turn an AI chatbot into a useful and productive resource. In this article by Bruce Nielson, we'll be going through how it works and when to use it.

AI: Bubble or Breakthrough? A Look at the Risks and the Rewards

AI: Bubble or Breakthrough? A Look at the Risks and the Rewards

Bubble or the future of Earth's technology? AI continues to be the #1 buzzword across business channels, but many fear the potential looming collapse of the "AI bubble", and wonder if it is worth the investment risk. In today's article by Bruce Nielson, we'll be exploring both the pessimistic and the positive perspectives on this AI bubble.

Building a Local DeepSeek R1 Chatbot with Chainlit

Building a Local DeepSeek R1 Chatbot with Chainlit

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

Building a Local DeepSeek R1 Chatbot with Streamlit and Ollama

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.