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Setting Up SearXNG with Open WebUI on WindowsSearxng Guide

Leave a Comment / Article, LLMS / Dr. Shouke Wei

From Blank Chat to Private Search: Setting Up SearXNG with Open WebUI on Windows A step-by-step guide to decoupling your local LLMs from knowledge cutoffs using self-hosted, lightning-fast web search. Local Large Language Models (LLMs) such as Microsoft’s phi-4-mini, Meta’s Llama 3, Alibaba Group’s Qwen3, and Mistral AI’s Mistral offer major advantages in privacy, low […]

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Why I Wrote Learn Python by Building Your Own AI Companion

Leave a Comment / Article, Artificia lIntelligence / Dr. Shouke Wei

Instead of teaching isolated programming concepts one chapter at a time, the book guides readers through building a complete AI companion system from scratch while learning Python in a practical and modern way.

The goal is not just to “learn Python.”

The goal is to learn how to build intelligent systems.

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UV Project Setup Guide

Leave a Comment / Article, Pythion environment, uv / Dr. Shouke Wei

🚀 UV Project Setup Guide A Clear Path from Any Python Project to Reproducible Environments 🌟 Why This Guide Matters In modern Python development, the biggest challenge is not writing code —it is making code reproducible across machines and environments. This guide introduces a simple rule: If you understand the difference between a UV project

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Load Dataset From URL

Leave a Comment / Article, Data Science, Load Datasets / Dr. Shouke Wei

A Clean and Reproducible Way to Load Datasets from URLs in Python Building a reusable data loader for remote data sources Introduction In modern data science workflows, datasets are rarely stored locally from the beginning. Instead, they are often accessed directly from online sources such as GitHub repositories, public APIs, cloud storage, or research data

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Top UIs for Markdown Writing

Leave a Comment / Article, Local Ollama, Markdown / Dr. Shouke Wei

Top Open-Source UIs for Markdown Writing with Local Ollama (2026 Edition) From Chat Interfaces to Full Writing Workstations for Private, Local LLM Workflows Running Ollama locally unlocks a powerful combination: privacy, control, and offline AI capability. But while the backend is strong, the default command-line interface quickly becomes a bottleneck for serious content creation. Markdown-based

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Pyspark Errors on Windows

1 Comment / Article, PySpark / Dr. Shouke Wei

HADOOP_HOME is unset, pyspark.pandas won’t import, and that index warning — all solved in one place, This article displays the methods how to solve these errors.

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