@toDianeDev: AI Enthusiast & Web Developer
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Djangonaut Space
Djangonaut Space 2024 session 2 opened up this week and is a great place to get mentorship and learn how to contribute to Django. Here is some information from This is an 8-week group mentoring program where individuals will work self-paced in a semi-structured learning environment. This program places an emphasis on group-learning, sustainability and…
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AI Fundamentals
Over the last 7-10 days I have completed the AI Fundamentals and ChatGPT Fundamentals courses at DataCamp. It has given me a firm grasp of AI concepts. Here is what was covered: AI Fundamentals– Understanding artificial intelligence– Introduction to ChatGPT– Understanding Machine Learning– Large Language Models (LLMs) Concepts– Generative AI Concepts ChatGPT Fundamentals– Introduction to…
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AI Learning Plan
I may have mentioned in a previous post that I joined DataCamp to learn about artificial intelligence (ai) because it has everything I need (or think I need right now as a beginner) in one place. Not only is it great for learning but the continuous prompting to practice what I know, the tests to…
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My Tech Stack
A tech stack is a combination of the programming languages, libraries, languages, and tools that a developer uses to build websites and apps. In order to ensure I stay focused on my tech stack I have decided to list them here. There is a combination of what I know (which needs improving upon) and what…
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Programming Tips
I have heard over and over again that being a professional programmer involves more than just spending time watching coding videos. It is important to learn how to take code and break it down so you understand what it is doing. This video really goes into explaining how this works and has helped me to…
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Full-Stack Certificate
My full-stack software developer certificate arrived today and is accredited by Acredible, which is a platform where you can issue and verify online certificates. It has been issued by Code Institute and it is another step towards my back-end development/AI career. Exciting times.
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Our Spot Update
To take a break from all the learning and to enjoy something practical, I have decided to update my project called Our Spot. It is a social network that provides people with an opportunity to share their favourite spots around the world. It was created as a minimum viable project (MVP) that included CRUD capabilities…
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INFJ-T
I recently found a free group on Skool for Software Developers. I only joined yesterday but it seems like a bunch of great people all looking to support each other. One of the questions in my profile asked for my Myer Briggs personality type, so I decided to complete the 16 Personalities test to find…
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AI Abbreviations
The world of Artificial Intelligence (AI) really loves its abbreviations. You can’t read an article without stumbling into one. My new abbreviation today is RAG (retrieval-augmented generation). RAG is a framework that combines aspects of both retrieval-based and generation-based approaches in natural language processing (NLP). If I understand it correctly you can get a model…
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What is AI?
Understanding what AI (Artificial Intelligence) is seems like a great place to start my journey on the path towards building my AI/ML (machine learning) knowledge. AI is all about incorporating human intelligence inside machines. Narrow Artificial Intelligence (or weak AI) are computer systems that can use human intelligence but have limitations in what they can…
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Chatbot Development
I am considering the best option for chatbot development as a business. May aim is to provide a service where I build an AI Persona Chatbot for a business or person based on their data. Now that I have looked into AI and large language models it seems as if I have three options when…
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Learn AI Challenge
The Microsoft Learn AI Skills Challenge is a month-long challenge that will help you gain skills in using Azure to develop AI products. I have joined late – it ends on the 19th April. The topics include: There are a total of 27 modules in the Azure OpenAI challenge and I am working on completing…
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Learning Wagtail CMS
I am doing my best not to let this new enthusiasm for AI overtake my core focus of improving my back-end developer skills. There is a list of things I still need to learn/improve upon since completing my course. I really want to focus on learning by building so that I am creating something rather…
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Full-Stack Software Developer
I received notification of my result for project five of my full-stack Software Developer training, which is now complete. I am now a trained Full-Stack Software Developer. My overall grade is a merit and my specialization is eCommerce. My five projects are listed on my GitHub page : Project One – Sologamy – Merit (html/css)…
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Django Polls App – AttributeError
I am working on the Django app poll as a way to go back to basics and learn Django using the documentation. I got stuck pretty early on in Part 2, which highlighted to me how easy it is to add the wrong code into the wrong place and not even see it! I had…
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SVM Mode in BIOS IS Visualisation
I haven’t been able to install Docker or Ubuntu onto my computer. The first reason being I had Windows 11 Home installed. I upgraded to Windows 11 Pro. Then I went to activate Hyper-V as per all the instructions I read and I noticed that I couldn’t include Hyper V Hypervisor – why? Because my…
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Python projects to build
I came across this video that focuses on python projects worth building. Including it here as a reminder in case I want to consider focusing on any of them. I could do with improving my python skills. As I build them I will link to them. I am going to use Vercel and/or Render as…
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AI Chatbot Developer
Over the last few months I have been trying to narrow down exactly what I want to focus on in the world of software development and I am considering being an AI Chatbot Developer. I have already considered eCommerce, learning platforms and creating a portfolio using Django and Flask, however this area also interests me…
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Learning Bootstrap 5
Project 5 is complete but there are a few things I want to change. The first is to have a newsletter sign up form at the top of the page. The next is to get my footer to stay in position, rather than move up and down depending on how much content is on the…
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Project 5 README
I have spent the last few days working on my README for my final eCommerce project using Django. Once you get to this stage you are pretty much done with the coding and refactoring of code for the site. As I start 2024 I will have managed to create my eCommerce store but there are…
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New Flask Website
I finished Project 4 last week and before submitting it (which I did this morning) I usually leave a project for a week then go back and look over it again. I check my README for errors and just make sure everything works. So while I was waiting to inspect and submit project 4, I…
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