Enrich ChatGPT with your knowledge base. — Background Suppose we have questions that ChatGPT can’t answer. An example is the question about which country won the 2022 Soccer World Cup. import openai COMPLETIONS_MODEL = "text-davinci-003" openai.api_key = "Your_API_KEY" prompt = """Answer the question as truthfully as possible, and if you're unsure of the answer, say "Sorry, I don't know". Q: Who…

Who will make the commercial breakthrough? The OpenAI creators of the software ChatGPT want to earn money with subscription revenue. Will the free access to ChatGPT soon end? The past: In recent years, it has often been predicted that truck drivers will soon lose their jobs due to self-driving cars…

Run any Python script automatically in Google Cloud Platform with Docker, Bash, Scheduler, Pub/Sub, and Function — Have you successfully programmed a Python application locally and now want to bring it to the cloud? This is an easy to follow and exhaustive step by step tutorial on how to turn a Python script into a Docker image and push it to the Google Cloud Registry. In Google…

Keep track of your tasks with this ready-to-use Excel/Python Gantt template — Background: Project management tools are a dime a dozen. But sometimes simple solutions are enough, especially if they combine Excel VBA with Python, so you don’t have to use a sledgehammer to crack a nut (or spend a fortune). One of the main components of a project management tool is…

Find the shortest route using a genetic algorithm — The so called traveling salesman problem is a very well known challenge. The task is to find the shortest overall route between many destinations: saleswoman visits several stores in succession and returns to the starting point in the overall shortest distance at the end. We are going to implement a…

Use smart irrigation in a water-scarce world — Nowadays, it is becoming increasingly important to use the vital resource of water sparingly. Inspired by the book “Let there be water” by Seth Siegel and the increased periods of drought in Germany, I set out to find a more sustainable solution for my garden irrigation. Since I am a…

Put your FAQ search on steroids with Elasticsearch and GPU — In a previous post we created a simple “string match search” to find German/English translations. In a figurative sense, we can also call this translation table a kind of FAQ. FAQ search is said to have the following positive characteristics: very fast at inference time gives good control over answers …

Tkinter vs Excel VBA — User-friendly search masks are almost indispensable in today’s flood of data. In this article we will see how to develop a responsive search for translation purposes using Tkinter and compare it with VBA.

Exhaustive Sudoku solving bot tutorial: Image and optical character recognition plus text to speech — In a previous article we created a bot called Isaac (inteligible solution for administrative and analytical communication). In this post we will teach Isaac how to play Sudoku. Isaac will receive eyes to see, hands to write and a mouth to speak. …