Kotlin

Mobibot & Gemini AI

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Last night, as an experiment, I added support for Google's Vertex AI Gemini API to Mobibot…

The implementation was pretty straight forward using the vertexai library, although I found the ChatGPT API easier to use overall. Gemini seems to be quite slow and overly verbose, but the quality of the answers feels superior. Gemini has no real-time data,…
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Mastodon

Toots du Jour (Sep 27)

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My tumultuous toots for September 27, 2023

Concepts of Apache Kafka, a popular open-source stream processing platform that is widely used for building real-time data pipelines…
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Toots du Jour (Jun 28)

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My strident toots for June 28, 2023

How Data Storage…
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Toots du Jour (Jun 18)

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My vociferant toots for June 18, 2023

Using SQLite In Flutter. Use the SQLite plugin to save data……
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Mastodon

Toots du Jour (Jun 14)

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My unruly toots for June 14, 2023

JunoDB: PayPal Open Sources Key-Value Store Powering 350 Billion Daily Requests #database…
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Toots du Jour (May 22)

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My shrill toots for May 22, 2023

Interesting background info in this article: Meta hit with record-breaking $1.3 billion fine over Facebook data transfers…
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Toots du Jour (May 21)

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My screaming toots for May 21, 2023

The government can’t seize your data —…
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