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Wittgenstein: The Limits of Language

Ludwig Wittgenstein argued that most philosophical problems—from the nature of consciousness to the meaning of life—are actually confusions about langu…

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Object-Oriented Programming in Python

Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a paradigm that organizes code around objects rather than functions. Python is an OOP language from the ground up. A c…

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The Basics of Landscape Painting

Painting a landscape can feel daunting, but you can start with just a few materials and a simple approach. All you really need is a canvas or paper, a few…

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The Environmental Cost of AI Agents

We talk a lot about how cool AI is, but rarely about the energy it consumes. Running large language models and AI agents takes massive data centers that gu…

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The Struggle with Imbalanced Datasets

Imbalanced datasets are the bane of my existence. You have a million examples of one class and only a hundred of the other. The model just gets lazy and pr…

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Avoiding Common AI Coding Pitfalls

After many mistakes, I have learned to watch for common AI coding pitfalls. Never trust generated code without understanding it, you might introduce subtle…

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CSS Variables (Custom Properties)

Maintaining large CSS files used to be a headache. If you wanted a consistent color scheme, you had to do a find-and-replace for every hex code. CSS Variab…

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BigQuery Saved Me From Excel Hell

My previous job involved analyzing CSV files. Gigabytes of them. Excel would crash. My laptop would overheat. I spent hours writing VLOOKUPs that took minu…

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BigQuery Saved Me From Excel Hell

My previous job involved analyzing CSV files. Gigabytes of them. Excel would crash. My laptop would overheat. I spent hours writing VLOOKUPs that took minu…

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Getting Started with Node.js and NPM

JavaScript used to be confined to the browser. Then Node.js came along and allowed us to run JavaScript on the server. For a beginner, installing Node also…

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Learning to Code: Where to Start

Learning to code can feel like trying to climb a mountain in the fog. The key is to pick one language and a small project that excites you. Python is often…