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Yesterday was a strong start, but I suspect keeping up the momentum will be the real challenge. Accomplished the following: learned the basics for LlamaIndex (formerly GPTIndex) and Langchain found and recorded some examples and resources for deploying chatbots built on said structures isolated some evidence-related resources to feed into a prototype, which even (*gasp*) required me to spend some upfront money! created a few working chatbots over said material, one of which ultimately seems promising picked a kitchy product name without overthinking it (which, for me, is huge) - “lawbrarian” –> short, ....

It’s been about two years since I left full time criminal defence practice to ‘build a legal tech company’. I’ve learned a lot along the way, and have built some cool and useful things, but I do not have a revenue-producing company, and those around me are getting impatient. So after a long conversation with my wife, we’ve decided to put a time limit on it. I have 90 days to hunker down and build something that has real commercial potential, and perhaps even could attract funding....

‘An overwhelming acquittal’ That’s how a colleague described the following excerpt from a recently released Quebec criminal case. Pretty funny stuff. Check it out: CONCLUSION [173] Having considered the evidence as a whole, it is common ground that the Crown has failed to prove the accused’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. [174] In the modern-day vernacular, people often refer to a criminal case “being thrown out”. Obviously, this is little more than a figurative expression....

The problem I’m a cheap thrifty dev. I will pay for things when it’s worth it, but I always like to explore the free options to see how creatively I can solve my own problems without paying someone else to solve them for me. Oh, Kevin. Saying what we all were thinking since 2005. Comments for online blogs require some sort of back-end hosting to store the comments. Some of the more common solutions, like Disqus, are widely used but are not without their issues....

Ultron. In all his glory. Everybody is FREAKING OUT about AI For the past few years, but particularly since the release of ChatGPT late last year, there’s been a growing panic about AI taking over the world. Now artificially intelligent robots taking over the world isn’t any sort of new idea. It’s been depicted in science fiction pretty much forever. I could’ve picked any number of examples from popular media....