AI: The Catalyst of the 4th Industrial transformation

Stepping into the heart of the 4th industrial revolution, this blog series examines the future of manufacturing, with AI and data analytics positioned at the core of this momentous transformation.


Exploring the SQLite database searching options in the LLM world

AI
LLM

Vector search vs Keyword search vs LLM-gemerated SQL statement

Dec 14, 2025
Alex Kelly

SolveIt + FastHTML: Creating Interactive Search Applications

AI
NLP
The reason for this project is I have data that is currently in Excel, i want to build a front end website to display the informaiton and use advanced information…
Oct 4, 2025
Alex Kelly

DocETL vs. RAG: Parsing the Whole Haystack vs. Finding the Best Needle

AI
NLP
LLM
Data

Comparing DocETL and RAG: understanding when to use comprehensive document processing versus targeted retrieval for different AI workflows

Aug 31, 2025
Alex Kelly

DocETL: Semantic Steering for Large-Scale Document Processing

AI
NLP
LLM

Exploring DocETL - a powerful framework for extracting insights from unstructured documents using LLM operations with built-in optimization and feedback loops

Aug 30, 2025
Alex Kelly

Context is King: Evolving Your Coding with AI Agents and Cursor

AI
LLM
Cursor
A few months ago, I shared a video showcasing how I leverage AI to supercharge my writing of apps. In the fast-paced world of AI development, “a few months ago” feels like…
Jul 6, 2025
Alex Kelly

The Next Generation of Flashcards: Speak, Recall, Learn AI guided study

AI
NLP
Struggling to find time for focused study in my hectic day-to-day routine, I built the Audio Flash Cards app to turn idle moments—especially during my daily commute—into…
Apr 18, 2025
Alex Kelly

Evaluating AI agents, using a Large Language Model as a Judge

AI
This project is part of my broader AI Learner initiative— A personal tool designed to help me learn more effectively, a necessity in this fast changing AI environment.
Mar 30, 2025
Alex Kelly

From Zero to Robot Hero: Building Your Own AI Robots

AI
Robotics
This blog is a write-up of the talk I did at live at Sheffield AI on current state of robotics and AI focusing on hugging faces LeRobot. The Video and the presentation can…
Mar 18, 2025
Alex Kelly

Voice-Powered Study Agent

AI
NLP
I’ve been experimenting with AI tools for a while now, and one area that’s always fascinated me is how we can use AI to enhance learning. Recently, I built a voice-powered…
Feb 28, 2025
Alex Kelly

Open AI deep research tool

AI
It’s been a months since OpenAI released their deep research tool, and I’ve been using it extensively. For those who haven’t tried it yet, deep research is a specialized AI…
Feb 28, 2025
Alex Kelly

Open AI operator mode

AI
Automation tools have evolved from simple rule-based scripts to AI-powered systems that can execute full workflows with minimal oversight. Operator Mode enables AI to handle…
Feb 25, 2025
Alex Kelly

Preparing the MS MARCO dataset for RAG

AI
NLP

a look at the MS MARCO dataset and how to prepare it for RAG

Jan 25, 2025

Blue Sky Social Media Data Collector

Web Development
Data
The social media landscape has dramatically shifted. Twitter (now X) has restricted API access behind expensive paywalls, making data collection nearly impossible for…
Nov 26, 2024
Alex Kelly

Data pipeline using LLMs: part 1 - web scraping

Technology is rapidly evolving, and barriers to entry are lowering. This presents an excellent opportunity to tackle tasks that were previously too difficult…
Nov 19, 2024
Alex Kelly

FastHTML + AI: Building a Revenue-Ready Application from Scratch

Web Development
HTMX
The SafeFast Virtual Tours web app offers an immersive, AI-powered experience that transports you back to ancient Rome through interactive virtual tours. Using a…
Nov 11, 2024
Alex Kelly

Robotics

Robotics
AI
I work for a manufacturing company where robots perform tasks like welding and transporting parts. I’m at an interesting intersection where both AI and robotics are my…
Oct 7, 2024
Alex Kelly

Experimenting with FastHTML and HTMX

Web Development
HTMX
Welcome to my thoughts and learnings from developing a FastHTML app. I wanted to learn a web technology that is simple and fun, allowing me to focus on my main project. It…
Sep 18, 2024
Alex Kelly

Cursor AI - The AI code editor

AI
In this blog post, I’ve shared my experience with Cursor AI, a powerful AI-assisted code editor that I’ve been using for a few weeks. Here are the key points:
Aug 18, 2024
Alex Kelly

Co-pilot studio initial thoughts

AI
Someone asked me to look at using Microsoft’s new Co-pilot and give my thoughts for a project.  Since I’ve already created the notes, why not share them so other people can…
Jul 23, 2024
Alex Kelly

Smart manufacturing expo 2024

IoT
Manufacturing
First time out of the office in a while but I’ve finally managed to escape to Smart manufacturing expo 2024. I think its been since covid, and after that there is a lot of…
Jun 24, 2024
Alex Kelly

Scaling Down to Scale Up: Exploring TinyLLaVA’s Multimodal Framework

AI
Computer Vision
The TinyLLaVA paper shows the usual multimodeal model of image and text in and text out but there are many more modalities. One thing I keep asking myself is why am I still…
Apr 22, 2024
Alex Kelly

Paper reading group - Attention is All You Need

AI
NLP
Every 2nd Saturday we have a paper reading group where we submit papers we are interested in reading and vote for our favorite paper to read together. This week we discussed…
Mar 30, 2024
Alex Paul Kelly

The rise of Apache Arrow

Data
I came across Apache Arrow when I was looking into the Hugging Face library and they made a big deal of it. I was intrigued, so i searched for more information about Apache…
Mar 5, 2024
Alex Paul Kelly

Weights and bias to keep track of training run

The blog will run you through a simple training loop and help understand how to intergrate weights and bias into your training loops using the mini ai from Fast AI.
Feb 22, 2024
Alex Kelly

Leveraging Hugging Face for Deep Learning: A Guide to Datasets to Model Training - part 1 Eye-Tracking

AI
Computer Vision
This blog aims to provide a brief overview of the creation of a machine learning workflow from creating a dataset up to the stage of training a model. I have started a…
Feb 6, 2024
Alex Paul Kelly
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