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💻 Coding for Nerds

Articles on algorithms, coding techniques, software, etc.

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How to Train your Chatbot - Chapter One

How to Train your Chatbot - Chapter One

Oct 22, 2025 • Alejandro Piad Morffis

How to Train your Chatbot - Chapter Zero

Announcing a new series on building practical AI applications

Oct 20, 2025 • Alejandro Piad Morffis

How I Built the Database of my Dreams

And how you can use it to build AI apps 100x faster

Sep 20, 2025 • Alejandro Piad Morffis

Simplifying Configuration Management in Pure Python

Feb 21, 2025 • Alejandro Piad Morffis

Building a Perplexity AI clone

Combining RAG with Google Search to build a bot that knows about everything.

May 18, 2024 • Alejandro Piad Morffis

How to Train your Chatbot - The PDF Bot

The second lesson in our journey to master LLMs.

May 3, 2024 • Alejandro Piad Morffis

Let's build our own ChatGPT

Build your own chat with an LLM application in just 56 lines of code and 15 minutes.

Apr 21, 2024 • Alejandro Piad Morffis

The Lurker's Labyrinth

Chapter 1 of The Hitchhiker's Guide to Graphs

Apr 9, 2024 • Alejandro Piad Morffis

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