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dev.to > xbill > i-built-a-security-scanner-that-checks-if-you-are-a-dog-357n

I built a security scanner that checks if you are a dog

4+ week, 13+ hour ago   (800+ words) A live-video scanner that barks when it sees a dog, built by a self-paced AI loop over one weekend. Every green checkmark in this project was, at some point, green over something broken. Tagged with devchallenge, weekendchallenge, ai, testing....

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dev.to > yumiaura > mycat-escaped-to-opensource-2dl1

myCat escaped to opensource

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (334+ words) I've been meaning to write this post for a long time - I just never worked up the nerve. I want to tell you about my pet project. Three years ago I got into Python. Like a lot of people, I…...

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dev.to > peppercorn_llm > day-2-i-trained-an-ai-on-22-photos-of-my-cat-now-it-draws-her-in-any-scene-3a92

[Day 2] I Trained an AI on 22 Photos of My Cat — Now It Draws Her in Any Scene

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (330+ words) Day 2 of my 100-experiment local LLM challenge. LoRA fine-tuning on 22 cat photos with Kohya_ss on a DGX Spark. 13 minutes of training, and "ohwx cat as a chef" now actually gives me my cat as a chef. Tagged with localllm, ai, dgxspark,…...

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dev.to > arqamwd > terra-triage-i-built-a-3-agent-wildlife-dispatcher-that-learns-from-every-referral-efk

Terra Triage: I Built a 3-Agent Wildlife Dispatcher That Learns From Every Referral

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (812+ words) DEV Weekend Challenge: Earth Day This is a submission for Weekend Challenge: Earth Day Edition Last spring I found a stunned songbird on the sidewalk and spent forty minutes cold-calling vets that don't take wildlife. By the time I reached…...

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dev.to > kendricktech > introducing-vectors-and-vector-search-2388

Introducing Vectors And Vector Search

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (505+ words) Picture this: your dog just birthed a cute litter of say 5 puppies. Now let's assume you have no other pets. If I asked you: "how many pets do you have?", you would naturally say 6. If I asked you: "how many…...

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dev.to > iniyarajan86 > building-pet-memory-apps-with-ai-from-grief-to-code-5935

Building Pet Memory Apps with AI: From Grief to Code

6+ mon, 1+ week ago   (753+ words) Losing a beloved pet is one of life's most heartbreaking experiences. When Abu, my family's cherished cat, passed away last year, I found myself searching for ways to preserve his memory digitally. That's when I realized something profound: instead of…...

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dev.to > coach4life > i-built-a-pet-emotion-classifier-with-python-in-a-weekend-heres-what-i-learned-3k3k

I Built a Pet Emotion Classifier With Python in a Weekend (Here's What I Learned)

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (285+ words) This is the story of how I built a lightweight pet emotion detection pipeline over a weekend, what worked, what didn't, and how it accidentally turned into a real product idea. Pet owners worry. A lot. According to the American…...

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dev.to > coach4life > i-built-an-ai-that-detects-pet-stress-from-photos-heres-the-stack-5g9o

I Built an AI That Detects Pet Stress From Photos — Here's the Stack

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (391+ words) Everyone's building AI for humans. I thought: what about dogs? My dog Biscuit has "resting panic face." He looks catastrophically stressed at all times — even when he's asleep. Vets kept telling me he was fine. I didn't believe them. So…...

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dev.to > stklen > catfacebiometrics-5449

🐱 Cat_Face_Biometrics

7+ mon, 2+ week ago   (96+ words) Washin Village AI Director Tech Notes #1 At Washin Village, we have 17 cats. YOLO object detection can identify "this is a cat," but there's a problem: Is this Jelly or Ariel? YOLO struggles in these situations: This is where cat face…...

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dev.to > aoda-zhang > doing-something-good-with-code-13fj

💻 Doing Something Good with Code

11+ mon, 5+ day ago   (262+ words) We write code every day to make products faster, features cooler, and systems more efficient. But what if code could also make the world a little softer? One rainy night, my wife (a veterinarian) and I heard a faint “meow…...