Reasoning Models https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/reasoning https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-services-blog/prompt-engineering-for-openai%E2%80%99s-o1-and-o3-mini-reasoning-models/4374010 Python Libraries https://github.com/pycountry/pycountry Personas https://github.com/tencent-ailab/persona-hub
A fun discussion about whether what “the AI” knows about us could change the output on tasks “an average person” would expect the result to be the same, has led me to a few experiments and I’m really curious what … Continued
A lot of documents you might want to processes and gather intelligence on will have charts. For instance in our Naive RAG chat we want to find out from the Federal Women’s Budget Statement for 2024-2025. I also loaded all … Continued
It doesn’t take long after you run a Basic RAG pipeline with a PDF that contains charts and tables to find cases where it doesn’t work very well or not at all. I took the last 5 years of local … Continued
While experimenting with GraphRAG (see my notes on getting it working here), I wanted an example that I was very familiar with, didn’t have too much text so I went in search of an eBook. I settled on The Nursery … Continued
When I first came across GraphRAG – all the documentation pointed to this solution accelerator. While that’s great, to give it a go I wanted something simpler. After a bit of digging I finally came across this article. There’s lots … Continued
With so much news around AI RAG – what’s the easiest way to get started to “play around” with AI and PDFs? While there isn’t one definitive answer I’m going to walk through one using Azure AI Studio. This example … Continued
I still love a hard copy book to read, but when it comes to day to day documents I’m very much a read on screen person. I RARELY print these days, and those are the times that someone requires a … Continued
While Word documents tend to have well defined structures, not all PDFs are created equally. Some are literally images pasted into a document and some are not set up to be accessible. The easiest way I’ve found to tell if … Continued
I’m a bit old-school and like to grab code examples on my laptop and run them rather than spinning up codespaces etc. I’ve been using a lot more Python bits lately playing with various AI tools and eventually you hit … Continued
I see a lot of code examples with important keys in them or greyed out in screen shots. Newish to Python there had to be a better way and there is… the .env file. Place a .env file in your … Continued
Previously we looked at Getting Started using Databricks Community Edition and discovered to use the Assistant features this isn’t supported in Community Edition. Prerequisites Setup a paid or free trail. See how we setup the free trial using Microsoft Azure. … Continued
This post serves as a quick set of instructions to import a CSV into a table in the Microsoft Azure Databricks environment. Prerequisites Setup a paid or free trail. See how we setup the free trial using Microsoft Azure. CSV … Continued
If you’re wanting to try any of the newer features like Databricks Assistant – you’re not going to be able to use Community Edition. We found that out in the previous post here. Your next cheapest option is to sign … Continued
Prerequisite: Signup for Community Edition – see how here Now that you have your free account we can now get started using Databricks. For community edition make sure you bookmark the url for later. When you sign-in, if you’re after … Continued
If you’re curious about Databricks – they offer a Free Trial and a Community Edition. In this post I’ll cover the signup for Community Edition. This one is free and doesn’t incur any AWS Costs but does have limitations. You … Continued
Doing the research and preparation for my talk on Surviving the AI Revolution: Strategies and Tools for Thriving in the Future of Tech one of the items I was using as an analogy for joining multiple tools together to get … Continued
Following on from my previous post on training recommendations: earlier in the year I posted a few free ones specifically in Australia time zones that were free and aimed at getting you certified. I thought it only fair that I … Continued
Following on from my previous post on training recommendations: earlier in the year I posted a few free ones specifically in Australia time zones that were free and aimed at getting you certified. I thought it only fair that I … Continued
In my previous post on Synology I got it all setup. Over the years we’ve done a bit of travel, taken a bunch of photos and have generally done poorly at keeping the originals in a place they’re easy to … Continued
I often get asked for training recommendations after mentoring, hackathons, usergroups etc. Earlier in the year I posted a few free ones specifically in Australia timezones that were free and aimed at getting you certified. I thought it only fair … Continued
If you’re anything like me, it’s really easy to get behind on your backups etc. I really had put this task off for too long. Lucky for me, Synology sent me one of their DiskStation 920+ NAS devices to review. … Continued
photo credit: https://twitter.com/MicrosoftAUDev/status/1374964480615014400 Today I took part in Episode 6 of New Breakpoint along with an impressive list of local ladies: Sammy HerbertKate Kirwin Akanksha Malik Katrin Schmidt Melissa Houghton You can check out the episode on YouTube here Part … Continued
Today I was part of a Thought Leadership series run by the Microsoft Sydney Reactor along side Mandy Michael and Norman Sanoso. You can watch the full episode here One of the themes here was “What was your biggest mistake … Continued
I am excited to announce my appointment as a Microsoft Regional Director. If you travel in Microsoft community circles many of the names here will be familiar to you. This is a 2-year non-remunerated position and I’m really looking forward … Continued
The one positive to come from COVID is that many of the events that I would have been unable to attend (unless i wanted to spend my life travelling) are being held virtually this year. One I was excited to … Continued
Today I gave my first university guest lecture hosting in AltspaceVR. Since my first experience at the Microsoft MVP Mixed Reality Mixer back in March, I’ve been to a lot more events finding them the closest thing to interacting with … Continued
This week I’m at the Microsoft MVP Summit. Due to COVID-19 this year’s event is online only. The absolute highlight of me week (and probably one of the few things I can talk about without breaking NDA) was the Mixed … Continued
Image by Alan Levine [CC BY 2.0] You’ve spent a good 40+ hours building and preparing for your conference talk, you’ve practiced, you’ve got past a lot of fears and you get up in front of a room full of … Continued
