A geospatial career journey
I started the year with a sense of renewal. By that, I mean that I had cataract surgery the first week of the year and I literally have a new vision for the future. This time last year, I was already down with bronchitis - the result of an unnamed respiratory illness that knocked me … Continue reading Onward to 2025
I had a project over the summer that required me to do a deep dive into various concepts around AI. Approximately 200 academic papers later, I came away with a laundry list of things I wanted to try. I am primarily interested in the capabilities of LLMs, but I am not particularly interested in the … Continue reading Experimenting with RAG Using ChatGPT and DuckDuckGo
At FedGeoDay in April, I attended a workshop conducted by my friend Steve Pousty on the use of vector databases. Steve is a great teacher and I learned a lot that day. I’ve been on a bit of a journey since. I’ve gotten some project work with AI and I find vector databases to be … Continue reading Image Similarity with PgVector
Early in my career, I dealt with a requirement to post-process a corpus of existing documents to "geocode" them. This meant identifying the locations referenced in each document, calculating a minimum bounding rectangle (MBR), and writing the MBR, the file path, and some associated ID into a database, so that documents could be surfaced via … Continue reading Simple Geocoding with ChatGPT