{"id":677,"date":"2025-01-27T11:42:34","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T16:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidfailor.com\/?page_id=677"},"modified":"2025-07-21T17:46:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T21:46:35","slug":"david-failor-continuing-education","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/davidfailor.com\/index.php\/david-failor-continuing-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Continuing Education"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Failor Continuing Education:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. 02\/04\/25…I installed LLMs “Ollama” and “LM Studio AI” and tested various AI modules.<\/span>\n
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    • Subject material keywords = “DeepSeek, Llama3, OpenAI”<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
    • 01\/17\/25…I completed Andrew NG’s Python AI<\/em> short course<\/span>\n
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      • Subject material keywords = “Python, OpenAI, Jupyter Notebooks, LLM”<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
      • 01\/17\/25…In process…Codecademy How to Build Your Own GPT<\/em><\/span>\n
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        • Subject material keywords = “GPT-4, Thonny, pre-process, clean, regex, training data set, validation data set, Python import modules “re” and “torch” (pytorch)”<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
        • 02\/04\/25…Course: Supervised Learning With Scikit Learn<\/span>\n
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          • Subject material keywords = “training data, test data, clean, data fit, data prediction, prediction set accuracy”<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n
          • https:\/\/app.datacamp.com\/learn\/courses\/supervised-learning-with-scikit-learn<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
          • 02\/20\/25…Course: Datacamp “Understanding Artificial Intelligence”<\/span>\n
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            • Subject material keywords = “narrow vs. general”, “pattern recognition”, “prediction vs. inference”, “practical application”, “automation”, “NLP”, “robotics”, “computer vision”, “ML”, “deep learning”.
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            • Warning: This tutorial has a strong liberal bias and much of it is based on the opinions of the author, not factual information.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
            • 03\/04\/25…Course: “Linear Algebra for AI”<\/span>\n
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              • Subject material keywords = “one-hot data categories”, “pattern recognition”, “ML”, “multi-dimensional vectors”, “linear algebra”.<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n
              • Freecodecamp.org.<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
              • 06\/25\/25…continuing to use Freecodecamp and other sites for Python programming and AI\/ML.\u00a0 I also used several GPTs and other LLMs to help set up learning programs for myself, but I’m finding several bits of erroneous information on the outputs for these AI modules.<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n
              • 07\/21\/25…I practice writing Python programs including a recent one using PyPDF2 to convert pdf to text and then text to audio (mp3).<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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