LlamaCon 2025, Space Llama, and the Cerebral Valley Hackathon

May 5, 2025

Attending Meta's LlamaCon 2025 in San Francisco, seeing Booz Allen Hamilton's Space Llama featured in Mark Zuckerberg's keynote, discussing edge models at the LLM engineer lunch, and building LlamaLinked at the Cerebral Valley Hackathon at SHACK15.

Gemini API Developer Competition: Building OpenMMPA on Full Android Watches

Oct 19, 2024

Inspired by the AI pin craze and the Full Android Watch (FAW) movement, I built an open-source, multi-modal personal assistant with Flutter, Gemini 1.5, ObjectBox local vector RAG, and Cloud Functions for the Gemini API Developer Competition.

Chasing the Next Transformer Killer - Part 2

Jul 21, 2024

RWKV is one of the most underrated LLMs despite combining the advantages of RNNs and transformers

Chasing the Next Transformer Killer - Part 1

Jul 20, 2024

Short history of the Transformer architecture and some models that try to fix quadratic costs like Reformer, Performer, FlashAttention

No-Code Low-Code LLM Powered Quiz Game with FlutterFlow

May 30, 2024

Exploring what can be achieved with full-stack no-code solutions with my GDSC Fresno friends and another hackathon win

It Was DataFest Time Again

Apr 29, 2024

Speaking and mentoring at DataFest 2023 and 2024 at California State University Fresno with Data Science friends, CSU Fresno faculty and students

No-Code LLM Agent and RAG Solution at Google Cloud Next 2024

Apr 13, 2024

My exposure to DialogFlow dates back more than 6 years, and at the 2023 Google I/O Connect Miami I learned about LLM-based offerings; now I have gained more experience in the form of a hackathon

How I Could Have Won My First Kaggle Competition at Google Cloud Next 2024 in Las Vegas

Apr 12, 2024

How I got a four-person delegation to Las Vegas and how simple prompt engineering could have won a Kaggle competition

LLM Knowledge agent with RAG Fusion on Cohere platform with LangChain and Streamlit

Feb 11, 2024

Continuing the journey towards a domain knowledge agent. 4th place at the Cohere Coral Hackathon, also using LangChain and with a Streamlit front-end

QBRAG (QnA Boosted RAG) with Vectara

Jan 11, 2024

Winner of the Customer Support category of 'RAG - LLMs with your data Summary' hackathon with Vectara and AnyScale