FROM THE BLOG TO YOUR LAPTOP
I use these projects to work through ideas I write about. Pick a problem you recognise, follow its README to run the example, then change one part for your own work.
All three start locally with £0 in service charges. You supply the laptop and electricity. Cloud hosting and live AI calls are optional experiments with separate costs.
5 minutes · £0 service cost
Catch bad data, run a job twice without duplicating it, and compare saved AI results. Three short experiments in one small project.
You need: Python 3.11+. No packages or account.
First result: Find three bad rows, retry two events, then inspect two AI scorecards.
5 minutes · £0 service cost
Test the document search behind an AI assistant. Ask a question, inspect the matching text and sources, then check whether the right information was found.
You need: Python 3.11+. No cloud account.
First result: Find the source passage for a question, then check the search against three saved questions.
10 minutes · £0 service cost
Train a small prediction model on public data, score an example and see how the result changes over time.
You need: Python 3.11+ and a public data download. No cloud account.
First result: Train a model, read its evaluation and score one synthetic record.
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