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Dwain Barnes
Dec 16, 20243 min read
How I Built a Custom AI Agent in 5 Minutes (Without Coding!)
Let me set the scene for you: I needed an AI assistant to handle specific tasks for my projects. I wanted it to pull information from a...
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Dwain Barnes
Dec 11, 20244 min read
Bringing Structure to LLM's with Ollama’s Structured Outputs
If you've ever worked with LLM models, you know how frustrating it can be when the output is inconsistent or difficult to work with....
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Dwain Barnes
Dec 6, 20245 min read
Building an AI News Researcher Using Pydantic Agents
If you’ve ever tried to keep up with all the new developments in AI security, you know it can feel like drinking from a firehose. Every...
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Dwain Barnes
Dec 4, 20244 min read
How to Add an Advanced Conversational Voice Agent to Your Website in 5 Minutes!
I recently tried adding a conversational AI voice agent to a fictional website called ABC Computing a store that sells computer...
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Dwain Barnes
Nov 30, 20246 min read
Turning Llama 3.2 Into a Legal Q&A Pro: Fine-Tuning a Model for UK Legislation - Part 2
In the first part of this series, I shared how I pretrained Meta’s Llama 3.2 model to focus on UK legislation. The goal? To create a...
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Dwain Barnes
Nov 25, 20243 min read
How to Easily Run Your Own AI Chatbot Locally with LM Studio: A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners
Running your own AI chatbot on your personal computer might sound like a complex task, but with tools like LM Studio, it’s surprisingly...
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Dwain Barnes
Nov 24, 20246 min read
How to Build a Low-Code AI Sales Chatbot for Your Website with Flowise and GPT-4o-Mini API
These days, customers want fast answers whether they’re shopping at noon or midnight. A chatbot can be your secret weapon, providing...
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Dwain Barnes
Nov 23, 20244 min read
Making a Domain-Specific UK Legislation LLM - Part 1: Pretraining
Continued Pretraining of Llama 3.2 3B for Legal Domain Knowledge In this article, I’ll walk you through how we’re enhancing Meta’s Llama...
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Dwain Barnes
Nov 22, 20244 min read
Understanding the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications 2025: A Practical Guide
The rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) has opened up endless possibilities in technology. But with great power comes great...
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Dwain Barnes
Nov 21, 20244 min read
Chat Privately with Your Documents: Local RAG with Flowise
In our last blog, How to Build Your Own Local Low-Code Chatbot Using Ollama and Flowise , we explored the basics of installing Flowise...
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Dwain Barnes
Nov 20, 20243 min read
Private Local LlamaOCR with a User-Friendly Streamlit Front-End
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is a powerful tool for extracting text from images, and with the rise of multimodal AI models, it's...
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Dwain Barnes
Nov 19, 20244 min read
Merging Large Language Models: My Journey with SARA and TIES
Merging large language models (LLMs) is a fascinating and surprisingly efficient way to create high-performing LLM models without the...
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Dwain Barnes
Nov 18, 20244 min read
How to Build Your Own Local Low-Code Chatbot Using Ollama and Flowise
Introduction Creating a chatbot that truly feels personal and responsive might sound like a complecated task. But with the right tools,...
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Dwain Barnes
Nov 17, 20244 min read
Unlocking the Power of Large Language Models Locally with Ollama
Introduction Imagine having your own personal ChatGPT like LLM models right at your fingertips running locally and private not in a...
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Dwain Barnes
Nov 15, 202411 min read
Building SARA: A Lightweight Cybersecurity Assistant for Everyday Laptops
Introduction: The Challenge of an Offline Cybersecurity Assistant The concept of building an AI assistant for cybersecurity that could...
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