Tech Break by Friday

You want to save notes, create mind maps, and record podcasts to increase your productivity, and this is the tool you've been waiting for. In today’s episode, I will share one of my favorite tools for learning a new topic. Notebook LM was released by Google a year ago as an experiment. You can view it under your Google account products or by searching for it. So, what is special about this product...

Meta released Llama 4. What is different compared to their previous models? From Meta’s website: Meta's Llama 4 models are cutting-edge multimodal AI systems designed to handle both text and image inputs seamlessly. They employ a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture, which activates only a subset of parameters for each input, enhancing efficiency and scalability. Basically, what this means is tha...

I don’t know if all of you know how much I love to talk about business or side hustles since this podcast does not focus on these topics. I would love to talk to you today about how you can use AI to create a logo. I am not good with design, but I tend to have a good eye for aesthetics. Since the advancement of AI in our era, there are multiple tools infused with AI to create cool and creative log...

Hi everyone, this is another episode of Tech Break by Friday. Where does the term Agentic AI come from? What are AI agents, and why use them instead of foundation models? Psychologist Albert Bandura introduced the concept of agency. Agency in individuals is described as the ability to act in full or partial autonomy. So, AI agents are AI systems that can perform a certain number of tasks autonomou...

I came around the term vibe-coding by a post from Andrej Karpathy on X: There's a new kind of coding I call "vibe coding", where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists. It's possible because the LLMs (e.g., Cursor Composer w Sonnet) are getting too good. Also I just talk to Composer with SuperWhisper so I barely even touch the keyboard. I ask for...

Have you heard people talk about AI, LLMs, and LORA? Now you can find out what it is. LoRA stands out for Low-Rank Adaptation, and it is a clever technique that makes training AI models much more accessible and efficient. Imagine you have a massive, pre-trained AI model that's already good at generating images or text. Instead of trying to modify the entire model (which would be like repainting a...

Welcome to another episode of Tech Break by Friday. I am Paraskevi, and I am a Software Engineer with expertise in AI. This week, I wanted to discuss what an LLM, or Large Language model, is. LLMs are artificial intelligence systems able to process and generate text in human language. You might have seen chatbots or language translation applications that use these models. A very famous model is Ch...

Hey there! So I am not sure how many of you are still using Google. I am not. Perplexity.ai is the new AI search engine tool I am using in my everyday life and it has saved me a huge amount of time. Perplexity AI is a conversational search engine launched in 2022 that combines large language models (LLMs) with real-time web searching capabilities 1 5 . Founded by former engineers from OpenAI, Data...

Episode 1: Welcome to Tech Break by Friday In this debut episode, Paraskevi (meaning "Friday" in Greek) introduces her new tech and AI-focused podcast aimed at making technology more accessible and human-centric. Episode Highlights Introduction & Mission Welcome to a space where technology meets accessibility Breaking down the barriers in the tech skills gap Making complex tech concepts understand...