The Application Layer

How to Run LLMs Locally and Why It's Becoming More Relevant

Dependencies Are Vulnerabilities, Quality Gaps Are Narrowing, Asymptotic Convergence, Smaller Specialist Models, DIY

Jul 20 • 

Michiel Voortman

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October 2024

E7.1: The Urgent Need for Affordable Real-Time Proof of Reserves

Where We Are Since the 2014 Blog Post and Where we Need to be.

Oct 1, 2024 • 

Michiel Voortman

September 2024

Lessons from yesterday's 27M hack

The hack happened on Penpie, a subDAO of the Penple platform. What happened and what can we learn from it?

Sep 4, 2024 • 

Michiel Voortman

August 2024

A Smarter AI Assistant with Retrieval-Augmented Generation: A Case Study

"I know people usually better than they know themselves." - Donna

Aug 29, 2024 • 

Michiel Voortman

Agentic Summaries - Product Demo

After a couple of months of radio silence, finally, I am happy to introduce Agentic Summaries

Aug 8, 2024 • 

Michiel Voortman

May 2024

E3.2: Bringing Agentic to Life

Deploy an AI Workflow to Scrape Reddit, Distill valuable Information, and Autonomously Post Findings on Twitter.

May 30, 2024 • 

Michiel Voortman

E3.1: Bring your Project to Production: Where 'Works on My Machine' Meets Reality

Production experience is often missing from scholars, juniors, and sometimes from medior Data Scientists. How do you get your model out of a Jupyter…

May 14, 2024 • 

Michiel Voortman

April 2024

E2.2: Welcome Agentic

Agentic is live - an Agentic Workflow that scrapes Reddit, formats the scraped content, and posts its findings on X daily. Check it out at X: @4GENTIC.

Apr 11, 2024 • 

Michiel Voortman

March 2024

E2.1: Beyond 'Her': How AI Agents Get Things Done, No Romance Required

What are these Agents, where do they come from, who are the key players, and how might they impact our lives?

Mar 28, 2024 • 

Michiel Voortman

E1.2: Exploring Diffusion Models: From Concept to Code in Text-to-Video

What are diffusion models, how are they being built, and how can we create a video ourselves?

Mar 13, 2024 • 

Michiel Voortman

February 2024

E1.1: From Text to Snowy Puppies: Unleashing the Future of Video Creation

What are text-to-video models, where do they come from, and how do they shape the path towards personalised content creation?

Feb 29, 2024 • 

Michiel Voortman

The Application Layer

Where Technology Meets Practicality – from Sector Shifts to Software Scripts.

Feb 29, 2024 • 

Michiel Voortman