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Artificial Intelligence / Updated 02 Sep 2025 / 2 min read

Running LLMs on Your Local Computer

Have you ever wanted to run a large language model (LLM) directly on your own computer without depending on a cloud service? Tools such as Ollama make it possible to manage and run language models locally from a laptop or desktop. This article walks through the basic setup and shows how to run a model on Linux and macOS. Installing Ollama on Linux For Linux, the installation process is straightforward:

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Artificial Intelligence / Updated 02 Sep 2025 / 2 min read

Using YOLOv8 for Object Detection with Labels and Confidence Scores

In this article, we will use YOLOv8 to detect objects in an image and print each object’s label and confidence score. YOLO (You Only Look Once) has long been a popular choice for object detection, and YOLOv8 provides a convenient Python API through the ultralytics package. Here is how to use it. Prerequisites Make sure Python and the ultralytics library are installed on your system. If needed, install the package with pip:

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Artificial Intelligence / Updated 02 Sep 2025 / 2 min read

Real-Time Object Detection with YOLOv8 and OpenCV

YOLO (You Only Look Once) is one of the most popular object detection approaches. In this article, we will use YOLOv8 with OpenCV to perform real-time object detection through a webcam. Prerequisites Make sure you have: Python 3.8+ The ultralytics library for YOLOv8 The opencv-python library for webcam access Install the dependencies with pip: pip install ultralytics opencv-python Example Code The following Python example performs object detection from a webcam stream:

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Artificial Intelligence / Updated 02 Sep 2025 / 2 min read

Practical Guide to SMS Spam Detection with BERT and PyTorch

In this article, we will explore SMS spam detection with BERT. BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) is a widely used NLP model architecture that can be adapted to many text tasks, including classification. PyTorch and Hugging Face Transformers provide a convenient way to work with BERT models. What You Need Before you begin, make sure you have: Python PyTorch Hugging Face Transformers An SMS dataset, such as the SMS Spam Collection, if you plan to fine-tune a classifier Install the required libraries with:

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Artificial Intelligence / Updated 02 Sep 2025 / 2 min read

Object Detection with YOLOv8: Using a Pre-Trained Model on Images

In this article, we will experiment with YOLOv8 for object detection in images. YOLO (You Only Look Once) is one of the best-known object detection algorithms. YOLOv8 offers fast performance and accurate results. Fortunately, the ultralytics library makes it straightforward to use. What You Need Before you begin, make sure you have: Python The ultralytics library If it is not installed yet, install it with pip: pip install ultralytics Simple Code Example Here is a short example that detects objects with YOLOv8:

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