Orlando Andico
Database Solutions Architect & AI Engineer at Amazon; ex-Microsoft, ex-Oracle
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Utilities
AWS DB Advisor
(aws-samples repo)
Points Tracker
School Finder
(github)
Aurora Serverless V2 Savings Calculator
Articles
LLM tool-calling evaluation harness
AI-powered search for PostgreSQL applications
Seashells, Sinkers, and a Six-Year-Old on a Saturday Afternoon
Local AI just passed my coding test. You can run it on anything from $200 of GPU's to any recent Mac
Too Poor (or Thrifty..) for a Mac? Run Local LLMs on a £165 Laptop
Practical AI Coding Test: Creating a Basic But Useful Web App
Comparing Large Language Models for Python Code Generation: Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs Self-Hosted Alternatives
Offline Inferencing with Ollama and Smaug-72B at 5 tokens/second
CUDA Inference Performance Across GPU Generations
Ollama Benchmarking: Intel vs M2 vs NVIDIA
Build Hybrid Cloud Data Platform with Azure Arc
Astronomy Graduate Project
Low-Cost Encoder-Assisted Mount Tracking
Correcting telescope mount periodic error without autoguiding. Two encoder read heads cancel encoder disk swash and eccentricity (well known); the novel bit is offsetting one read head by half the encoder pole length, so its subdivisional error sits 180° out of phase and cancels as well.
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