Dan Davis

Articles by Dan Davis

LLM Knowledge Dump

Everything I've learned building with LLMs

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Local Function Calling With Mistral 7B and vLLM

Using Mistral 7B for local function calling with dockerized vLLM

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PNC Virtual Wallet Statement Parser

Extracting transaction data from PDF bank statements.

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Quart, HTMX, and Server Sent Events

Build a simple chat app using Quart, HTMX, and Server Sent Events

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Industrial Grade Machine Vision - Part 1

Notes on building machine vision applications in industrial settings

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Aravis and GStreamer on Fedora Linux

Quick guide to using GenICam cameras with Aravis and Gstreamer

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My 827K Dog Image Dataset

I had a client approach me with an interesting problem.

The client was a dog daycare/boarding facility and the SaaS platform they used for managing customers and scheduling also had an interesting image upload and tagging feature. They would take a bunch of photos of the dogs each day …

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Clifton Gorge Flooding

Clifton Gorge Flooding 2017-11-06

Clifton Gorge is a wonderful nature preserve around 50 miles west Columbus, OH.

These photos and videos were taken on 2017-11-06. This date even made the top 10 on the recent crests page at one of the downstream stations.

To monitor the water level go to …