https://ericspencer.us/ericspencer-site-backup/tags/python/Recent content in Python on Eric SpencerHugo -- 0.152.2en-usThu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://ericspencer.us/ericspencer-site-backup/projects/2026/comp388-llm/Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://ericspencer.us/ericspencer-site-backup/projects/2026/comp388-llm/Two homeworks from Loyola's special-topics LLMs class: prompting GPT-2 and comparing base vs instruction-tuned Qwen.https://ericspencer.us/ericspencer-site-backup/projects/2024/its-rag-bot/Sat, 24 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://ericspencer.us/ericspencer-site-backup/projects/2024/its-rag-bot/A voice-first RAG chatbot trained on Loyola's ITS knowledge base, built after two years of answering the same tickets.https://ericspencer.us/ericspencer-site-backup/projects/2023/cubed-pack-solve/Fri, 26 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://ericspencer.us/ericspencer-site-backup/projects/2023/cubed-pack-solve/A solver for packing 54 T-tetracubes into a 6x6x6 cube using Knuth's Dancing Links algorithm.https://ericspencer.us/ericspencer-site-backup/miscellaneous/aoc2025/Thu, 25 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://ericspencer.us/ericspencer-site-backup/miscellaneous/aoc2025/My Advent of Code 2025 attempt in Python. Got six days in before life took over.https://ericspencer.us/ericspencer-site-backup/projects/2021/goldbach-conj/Fri, 28 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://ericspencer.us/ericspencer-site-backup/projects/2021/goldbach-conj/Verifying the Goldbach Conjecture by brute force for every even number up to 1 billion.https://ericspencer.us/ericspencer-site-backup/projects/2025/ascii-llm-training/Wed, 03 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://ericspencer.us/ericspencer-site-backup/projects/2025/ascii-llm-training/A toy transformer that reads pyfiglet ASCII art and tries to spit the original word back out. Calling it an LLM is generous.https://ericspencer.us/ericspencer-site-backup/miscellaneous/chess-stats/Fri, 01 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://ericspencer.us/ericspencer-site-backup/miscellaneous/chess-stats/A small Flask app that pulls Chess.com's public API and graphs your rating history.https://ericspencer.us/ericspencer-site-backup/projects/2025/gesture/Fri, 01 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://ericspencer.us/ericspencer-site-backup/projects/2025/gesture/A proof of concept Jarvis-style macOS controller that takes voice commands and hand gestures from the webcam.https://ericspencer.us/ericspencer-site-backup/projects/2025/ai-conversation/Thu, 31 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://ericspencer.us/ericspencer-site-backup/projects/2025/ai-conversation/A toy where two local Ollama models loop on consciousness until one of them gives uphttps://ericspencer.us/ericspencer-site-backup/projects/2025/llmjammer/Mon, 28 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://ericspencer.us/ericspencer-site-backup/projects/2025/llmjammer/Obfuscator for public Python code to confuse LLMshttps://ericspencer.us/ericspencer-site-backup/projects/2025/connect-4/Sun, 29 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://ericspencer.us/ericspencer-site-backup/projects/2025/connect-4/A Chess engine-esque Connect 4 analyzerhttps://ericspencer.us/ericspencer-site-backup/projects/2025/youtube-dl/Mon, 14 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://ericspencer.us/ericspencer-site-backup/projects/2025/youtube-dl/Locally hosted youtube downloader for mp3 and mp4shttps://ericspencer.us/ericspencer-site-backup/projects/2025/sign-language/Mon, 07 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://ericspencer.us/ericspencer-site-backup/projects/2025/sign-language/A Simple Sign Language Recognition App using OpenCVhttps://ericspencer.us/ericspencer-site-backup/projects/2025/dexcom-navbar-macos/Thu, 20 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://ericspencer.us/ericspencer-site-backup/projects/2025/dexcom-navbar-macos/View your Dexcom number in your Mac OS Navigation Barhttps://ericspencer.us/ericspencer-site-backup/projects/2025/mlb-hackathon/Fri, 17 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://ericspencer.us/ericspencer-site-backup/projects/2025/mlb-hackathon/A scikit-learn decision tree that guesses whether a current MLB player would get voted into Cooperstown, built for the Google Cloud x MLB hackathon.https://ericspencer.us/ericspencer-site-backup/projects/2025/terminalgpt/Fri, 10 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://ericspencer.us/ericspencer-site-backup/projects/2025/terminalgpt/A small Python CLI for chatting with OpenAI and running English-to-Bash commands from the terminal. The thing I actually open when I want to talk to a model.