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2 weeks ago | 
smashingmagazine.com | Joas Pambou
11 min readAnimation,Python,ToolsShare on Twitter, LinkedInAnimation makes things clearer, especially for designers and front-end developers working on UI, prototypes, or interactive visuals. Manim is a tool that lets you create smooth and dynamic animations, not just for the design field but also in math, coding, and beyond, to explain complex ideas or simply make everything a little bit more interactive.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
smashingmagazine.com | Joas Pambou
11 min readAI,Tools,LLM,Techniques,AppsShare on Twitter, LinkedInShouldn’t there be a way to keep your apps or project data private and improve performance by reducing server latency? This is what on-device AI is designed to solve. It handles AI processing locally, right on your device, without connecting to the internet and sending data to the cloud.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
smashingmagazine.com | Joas Pambou
14 min readAI,LLM,Techniques,ToolsShare on Twitter, LinkedInYou’ve covered a lot with Joas Pambou so far in this series. In Part 1, you built a system using a vision-language model (VLM) and a text-to-speech (TTS) model to create audio descriptions of images. In Part 2, you improved the system by using LLaVA and Whisper, which provided audio descriptions of images.
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
smashingmagazine.com | Joas Pambou |Generate Chatbot Response."
15 min readAI,Tools,TechniquesShare on Twitter, LinkedInIn the second part of this series, Joas Pambou aims to build a more advanced version of the previous application that performs conversational analyses on images or videos, much like a chatbot assistant. This means you can ask and learn more about your input content. Joas also explores multimodal or any-to-any models that handle images, videos, text, and audio, offering a comprehensive view of cutting-edge AI applications.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
smashingmagazine.com | Joas Pambou
18 min readAI,Tools,TechniquesShare on Twitter, LinkedInJoas Pambou built an app that integrates vision language models (VLMs) and text-to-speech (TTS) AI technologies to describe images audibly with speech. This audio description tool can be a big help for people with sight challenges to understand what’s in an image. But how this does it even work? Joas explains how these AI systems work and their potential uses, including how he built the app and ways to further improve it.
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Jan 26, 2024 | 
smashingmagazine.com | Joas Pambou
20 min readAI,Tools,TechniquesShare on Twitter, LinkedInLanguage models have shown impressive capabilities. But that doesn’t mean they’re without faults, as anyone who has witnessed a ChatGPT “hallucination” can attest. Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is a framework designed to make language models more reliable by pulling in relevant, up-to-date data directly related to a user’s query.
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Jan 12, 2024 | 
comet.com | Joas Pambou
In this article, I’ll show you how to create amazing images from audio using the magic of Machine Learning and the Transformers models. I’ll explain each step clearly, uncover the secrets behind Whisper, and highlight the incredible abilities of Hugging Face models. By the end, you’ll know how to transform audio into stunning images with these powerful tools. Have you ever listened to someone describe a scene in a speech or audiobook and pictured it in your head?
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Oct 17, 2023 | 
smashingmagazine.com | Geoff Graham |Juan Rodriguez |Juan Diego Rodríguez |Joas Pambou |Slava Shestopalov
27 min readSmashing PodcastShare on Twitter, LinkedInIn today’s Smashing Podcast episode, we’re talking about Tech Unions. What part can unions play in a modern tech workplace? Drew McLellan talks to Ethan Marcotte to find out. In today’s Smashing Podcast episode, we’re talking about Tech Unions. What part can unions play in a modern tech workplace? Drew McLellan talks to Ethan Marcotte to find out.
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Oct 17, 2023 | 
blogarama.com | Geoff Graham |Juan Rodriguez |Juan Diego Rodríguez |Joas Pambou |Slava Shestopalov
In today’s Smashing Podcast episode, we’re talking about Tech Unions. What part can unions play in a modern tech workplace? Drew McLellan talks to Ethan Marcotte to find out. Note: Listeners can save 15% off Ethan’s book, “You Deserve A Tech Union,” by using the code SMASHING15. Happy reading!Show NotesEthan Marcotte’s website.
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Oct 10, 2023 | 
smashingmagazine.com | Joas Pambou
21 min readAI,Tools,AppsShare on Twitter, LinkedInWhile AI remains a collective point of interest — or doom, depending on your outlook — it also remains a bit of a black box. What exactly is inside an AI application that makes it seem as though it can hold a conversation? Discuss the concept of large language models (LLMs) and how they are implemented with a set of data to develop an application.
