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How to Use Cosine Similarity for Vector Search in pgvector
Lately, to deepen my understanding of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (short: RAG), I have been developing a local RAG setup from scratch
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How to set up pgvector with Docker: Local Vector Database for Text Embeddings
In this post, I'll walk you through how I set up a local vector storage system using pgvector,
LLM
Starting my January 2025 project: a Local RAG System from Scratch
This January, I’m taking on a new challenge: creating my very own local RAG-system to search through my notes
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How to build a Python package with uv and install it locally
This post will walk you through the steps to build a simple Python package and install it locally on your
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How to Set Up Poetry for Python: A Step-by-Step Guide to Better Package Management
I've always been a pip + venv (yes, not even virtualenv) user. Conda never played nice with me. However,
Machine Learning
Intro to Scene Text Recognition - Guide to Image-to-Text Conversion
Recognizing text in a photo - something we're quite good at, but neural networks struggle quite a bit
Advent Of Code 2022 - 7 Reasons why you should participate
December is the time for many festive activities BUT there is one that is clearly the best ;)
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