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Delve 24: Adding a Newsletter & Other Site Enhancements with AI

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"Don't talk about AI. Use it." - Andrew Ng

Acquire Front End

Greetings data delvers! You may have noticed some changes to the site recently. No, I did not suddenly develop front-end skills, however with a local LLM available to me now I have the ability to improve several aspects of the site's UX. This all started with a simple prompt:

Claude

How would you improve this blog: https://www.datadelver.com/ source code is here @Documents/Blog/datadelver.github.io/

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Delve 20: A Look back at 2025

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"Self-reflection is the school of wisdom." - Baltasar Gracian

Happy 2026 data delvers! As we enter a new year I wanted to take some time to reflect on the past year, share some thoughts about how I think it went, and shed some light on my goals for 2026!

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Delve 9: Migrating from Jekyll to Material for MkDocs

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"Good tools make good work." - Unknown

From one Static Site to Another

Greetings data delvers! The sharper-eyed among you may have noticed that the website looks a little bit different now. No you aren't seeing things. I recently completely changed the backend of the site from Jekyll to Material for MkDocs. The process was overall pretty smooth but had some hiccups which I think are worth documenting. However, before we get into that, why the change in the first place?

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Delve 0: Hello Labyrinth (World)!

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It seemed so daunting, "I need to make this model work!", "Running this in a notebook isn't good enough, we need to drive live site traffic against this!", "All of this data is bad!".

Entering the Labyrinth

Welcome to my blog data delver! I'm so glad you found your way here! If you're like me, when you first started out with data science and machine learning, you may have been feeling overwhelmed. With so many different concepts to learn it may have seemed as if there was an insurmountable labyrinth of information ahead of you, with no clear path towards mastery and practical application. Fear not! For you have found a resource which shall aid you in your own quest to navigate the maze.