Ogbuji on the 1s & 2sies

Igbo-Nigerian-American immigrant poet/editor & DJ, engineer/entrepreneur, classicist cum Hip-hopper, snowboarder, soccer player/coach. Boulder, Colorado. From software to music, poetry & well beyond.    linktr.ee/uche720

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"What? Are you playing nut skittles across the rafters? That a Harrison Ford movie that’s got you so frantic? You practicing the Kid & Play for Rodent House Party? Who the fuck declared open house in my attic?"

15th anniversary of my publishing "Scribble Ass Squirrel" on The Nervous Breakdown, today. A bit of fun that led to a lot of fun banter, and on the occasion I remember how much I miss that literary community. Long gone by now, so the text is only a ghost in The Wayback Machine, with the embedded audio missing.

The audio is from a recording, and that's over on SoundCloud. It's a true story. We did end up calling "Pest pro" and having them trap and remove at least a couple of interlopers. It's also a ghost story. About 8 years after the episode and poem, I had to go up in the attic to fix something. I happened across a long desiccated squirrel corpse. Perhaps it was all a case of Ghost Morse Code a la James Merrill at the Ouija Board and quill.

Why don’t you chill till Halloween with that poltergeist shit, Scribble ass, scramble ass, punk ass squirrel?

Random poem note: yes, the "scribble" in the title/text is inspired by the classic scribble scratch. DJs represent!

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Colorado Poets Center on Colorado Gives Day

I'm on the board of Colorado Poets Center, and we're in fundraising season, via Colorado Gives Day.

$30 helps us add one new poet to the site.

We now have 276 listed, adding 12-15 new poets each year.

$50 helps us pay one poet to feature in our Tuesday night readings.

40 CPC poets were featured at the Boulder Bookstore or the R Gallery in 2023 & 2024.

$50 helps us publish one electronic issue of the Colorado Poet newsletter.

We've now published 10 quarterly issues, paying Kathy Winograd to interview 2 Colorado poets in each.

$50 helps us pay one poet to read at community events.

David Rothman read for a Western Slope Poet Laureate event in Montrose in 2023. Uche Ogbuji read at a Casa de Paz fundraiser in Denver in May, 2024. Sheryl Luna and Crisosto Apache read at an ACLU Colorado fundraiser in October, 2024.

$25 funds one poet at one of our webinars; $150 funds a webinar event in its entirety.

We sponsored three poetry webinars led by Wendy Videlock in 2023.

$300 funds an entire mini-conference, with 5-8 poets reading works related to a specific theme, all available on the CPC site. We sponsored three such events in 2022 and 2023, each organized by a CPC poet.

Colorado Asians: A Poetry Event, led by art curator Jane Burke, held in conjunction with the Colorado Asian art exhibit at the Artworks Center for Contemporary Art in Loveland. Remembrance of the Holocaust, led by Judyth Hill. LGBTQ+ Poetry Reading, led by Serena Chopra.

$75 funds a first-place poetry award for a high school student at Greeley West. $50 funds a second-place award.

43 students taught by 10 teachers submitted poems in 2024 and 14 students won awards.

Colorado Gives Day 2024

Colorado Gives Day is the largest statewide giving movement, raising more than $469 million for nonprofits since it began.

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Night Dark [Àbàlị̀]

A winter solstice show in Western Colorado, ending with DJ sets, more DJ action, mountain urchins + the usual lashings of new (& not so new)

Last week's Loomiverse newsletter started with some notes from the Dark Night show at which my daughter EmCee'd and I recited, sang & DJed. Then the usual music recommendations and other bits.

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Up next on the poet (and DJ) front: I'll be a third of the Dark Night Solstice Show crew—a couple of nights (Dec 15 & 16) concocting chaos in Paonia, Colorado.

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reAct pt. 2 | Oori Data

Continuing from part 1, this article further explains how Oori has been applying "reAct" agents.

Follow-up article from Oori colleagues laying out some of our development work using the reAct (reasoning/action) pattern for #AI LLMs. Local/OSS models vs ChatGPT; wider palette of actions & providing context from chat.

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AI’s Latest Job: Capture The ‘X’ Factor In Business Innovation

Can AI help boost creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship in ways not possible in previous times?

I contributed heavily to this new Forbes article through my lens as Oori Data LLC founder. Are you a #startup founder, or an existing business leader working out strategy? I'd love to hear your perspective on some of the survey results which are also featured in the article.

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Mushroom talk [Ókwú éló]

Upon returning from travel, much ado about mushrooms, worldwide conferences, and all sorts of new music.

The newsletter is back after a couple of months. Poetry, Hip-Hop, lots of mushrooms; lots of new music (including a new October & mushroom themed impromptu mix)!

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reAct (reasoning Action) | Oori Data

In-depth technical explanation of how Oori utilizes the "reAct" technique to create agents that are greater than the sum of their LLMs.

High-level description, with some examples, by one of my Oori Data colleagues on how he implemented and refined the reAct LLM pattern for our products and customers.

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AI for Humans, by Humans | Oori Data

The history of AI is closely tied to computing, with the concept emerging from early, prompting concerns about human intelligence being repl

A couple of weeks ago I drafted this article, really just musing at what compelled me to launch Oori Data LLC. My colleagues quietly used it to launch our blog last week while I was in Dubai for the GITEX DevSlam. It was then a neat confluence sitting with Emeka Okoye, who was with me experiencing some of those formative computing moments in the 80s, which I mention in the post. Also there were some accomplished Nigerian developers of a more recent vintage, such as Aisha Bello. I guess having lived it, I don't often reflect on how our Naija computing heritage is far from strictly a new matter. I should certainly write more on the topic.

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Fourthought…Kadomo/Zepheira…Oori! [Àzụ́m áhị́á]

Labor Day ed—surely entrepreneurship counts? Hard work starting companies! From As You Like It to Electro, or is it Hip-Hop? Plus Coach Prim

New company reminiscing, and where labor fits in. Semantic technology and the new semantic technology (large language models). Electro music isn't EDM, dammit Google! 🤬 Reckless and the Forester from As You Like it. The usual music recommendations, and a word for the Coach Prime Buffs.

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Island wilding [émúmé àgwà ètítí]

Classic Japanese rap on Long Island, Colorado in mushroom festivals, poetry competitions & history podcasts. The usual new music and all sor

Most recent newsletter edition has Shakespeare, De La Soul with Japanese guests, more Strong Island lore, Colorado color and a told from the cold poem, beside the usual music mix and music recommendations.

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Juju na lie [Ọ́gwụ̀ bụ àsị́]

Silly month pun brings a meditation on earth meds, E. Dickinson brilliance, a big publishing deal &c. Then footy bits + new music from the s

I actually posted this last week. The JuJu months are slipping away (and weather-wise, they feel as if they've just begun). my excitement about the WWC is hoisted even more after that spirited win by Nigeria over the co-hosts (Sorry Steph & Caitlin, I still love you!) The music recommendations are sisters all the way down. Have a read!

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GitHub - OoriData/OgbujiPT: Client-side toolkit for using large language models, including where self-hosted

Client-side toolkit for using large language models, including where self-hosted - GitHub - OoriData/OgbujiPT: Client-side toolkit for using

First full release of the new, open source project I've been working on with the Oori crew, and now hosted in our proper organization. OgbujiPT—Python toolkit for client-side use of self-hosted & full-service (a la ChatGPT) LLMs.

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Feel Love (Ihunanya dị)

Trippiness for the Disco goddess, Fresh Gunneress, Music to feel, and a serious aside on continuing injustices.

Loomiverse post: Feel Love (Ihunanya dị). A trippy new music video for Donna Summer's "I Feel Love" suggests a cyborg vessel for the Plato/Plotinus ideal, à la John Donne. A bit on Arsenal, riots in France, the usual new music recommendations & mix.

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Poet Uche Ogbuji’s ‘Easy Words’ Reflects On Systemic Racism And Police Brutality

Colorado Public Radio interview from 3 years ago today, on my poem (and accompanying music) "Easy Words".

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Sun on a rocket [Anyanwu nọ n'égbè]

Solstice sun surrounded by storm, solar type 5%, a new venture, poems & performances and, as ever, new music.