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Alain Airom

Oct 27

🍥 Hands-on Experience with LightRAG

#lightrag #rag #chunking #embedding

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27 min read

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Oct 24

Using Chonkie

#chonkie #ollama #milvus #docling

11 min read

Alain Airom

Oct 22

Markdown Remote Image Downloader

#markdown #c #go #python

11 min read

Alain Airom

Oct 22

📯Introducing CUGA

#cuga #opensource #agents #react

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6 min read

Alain Airom

Oct 20

Beyond Basic Chunks: Supercharge Your RAG with Docling and OpenSearch

#docling #opensearch #rag

9 min read

Alain Airom

Oct 19

A first Experience with LLaMA.CPP

#llamacpp #llm #huggingface #gguf

5 min read

Alain Airom

Oct 17

Second Experience with Apple Containers!

#containers #containerization #apple

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4 min read

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Oct 17

Testing qwen3-vl… quite impressive!

#qwen #ollama #vlm

11 min read

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Oct 10

Implementing a Basic MCP Server and Two Communicating Agents in Python

#mcp #agents

19 min read

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Oct 6

Information Extraction (Tests on a Beta API) from Docling

#docling #data #dataextraction #datapreparation

5 min read

Alain Airom

Oct 5

Mixture of Experts Implementation using Granite4: Harnessing Specialization with the Latest Granite Family Model

#granite #ollama #llm #moe

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11 min read

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Oct 3

🪨 ‘Granite 4’ Meets ‘Kubectl-AI’: Building Your Own Local, Executable Kubernetes Assistant

#granite #google #kubernetes #ollama

15 min read

Alain Airom

Oct 2

The Secret to Efficient RAG: A Step-by-Step Guide to Chunking and Counting Your Vectors

#rag #tokens #vectorization #chunking

11 min read

Alain Airom

Oct 1

Embedded Intelligence: How SQLite-vec Delivers Fast, Local Vector Search for AI.

#sqlite #sqlitevec #rag #vectordatabase

7 min read

Alain Airom

Sep 29

Decoding AI’s Inner Language: How to Test Your Embedding Models

#ollama #embedding #granite #google

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13 min read

Alain Airom

Sep 27

Testing Ollama Web Search 🔍 and a Thinking Model 💭

#ollama #reasoning #llm #opensource

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Sep 24

Kubernetes Security Book (2nd Edition) — A Synthesis

#kubernetes #cloudnative #security #containers

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5 min read

Alain Airom

Sep 24

Introducing a Game-Changer: Docling and IBM Cloud Code Engine Join Forces

#serverless #ai #docling #codeengine

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5 min read

Alain Airom

Sep 22

Unlock Your Data: Supercharge Excel Document Processing with Docling

#docling #rag #documentconversion #opensource

9 min read

Alain Airom

Sep 21

My very first hands-on epxerience with Langflow

#lanflow #datastax #ibm #agents

4 min read

Alain Airom

Sep 19

Unlocking Insights: Monitoring Your Apps with Grafana & Prometheus (and Why LLMs Need It Too!)

#observability #grafana #prometheus #llm

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10 min read

Alain Airom

Sep 17

📣 Just announced: IBM Granite-Docling: End-to-end document understanding with one tiny model

#docling #rag #opensource #huggingface

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Sep 16

Moving Your Vector Database from ChromaDB to Milvus

#rag #milvus #chromadb #vectordatabase

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10 min read

Alain Airom

Sep 12

Unlocking the Power of Time: An Introduction to Time Series Analysis

#granite #llm #foundationmodels #timeseries

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4 min read

Alain Airom

Sep 8

First Hands-On Experience with Apple Containers!

#containers #opensource #containerapps #containerization

5 min read

Alain Airom

Sep 7

Early Feedback on “Build a Reasoning Model (From Scratch)”

#llm #reasoning #ai

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Sep 6

The Future of Document Scanning: A Look at LLM-Powered OCR

#rag #ollama #granite #llama

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12 min read

Alain Airom

Aug 28

Code Generation with ‘Graph RAG’, AstraDB and gpt-oss

#astradb #gptoss #rag #llm

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Alain Airom

Aug 25

A Developer’s Guide to Azure: A Deep Dive into the “Azure for Developers”

#azure #devops #mlops #softwaredevelopment

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Aug 25

Hands-on and Testing of Google “langextract” and further thoughts…

#langextract #llm #docling #data

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16 min read

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Aug 25

What I learnt from reading a book on Graph Query Language (GQL)

#gql #sql #database

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5 min read

Alain Airom

Jul 31

My Local/Remote LLM Studio — watsonx.ai and Ollama (part 1)

#watsonx #llm #rag #milvus

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Jul 25

MCP Context Forge Gateway — Try it now! ⚡

#mcp #ai #llm #programming

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Jul 24

Using “OpenLLMetry” is simple comme Bonjour :)

#traceloop #openllmetry #analytics #telemetry

12 min read

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Jul 23

Beyond Search: How to Chat with Your Documents Using AstraDB Vector Database, Docling and Granite

#astradb #rag #granite #docling

15 min read

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Jul 8

Unlocking Visual Intelligence: Picture Annotation with Remote VLM Power

#docling #watsonx #huggingface #vlm

10 min read

Alain Airom

Jul 5

Fun project of the week, Mermaid flowcharts generator!

#ollama #granite #mermaid #flowchart

7 min read

Alain Airom

Jul 5

Maximize Your Documents: Exploring the Advantages of Full OCR of PDF files and chat with your documents!

#docling #rag #milvus #watsonx

41 min read

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Jun 30

Small Model, Big Impact: IBM Granite Vision Dominates Document Understanding

#llm #granite #huggingface #rag

5 min read

Alain Airom

Jun 25

⚡️ BREAKING: Docling Unlocks ASR (automatic speech recognition) Power!

#docling #rag #llm #asr

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5 min read

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Jun 24

Local Elasticsearch Playground: A Practical Introduction and hands-on test (and moving to a RAG solution)

#rag #llm #elasticsearch #vectordatabase

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12 min read

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Jun 21

From Jargon to Genius: Chunking as the Key to Explainable AI Generation

#docling #rag #opensource #llm

206 min read

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Jun 17

What Are Vision-Language Models (VLMs) and How Do They Work?

#docling #llm #rag #smoldocling

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10 min read

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Jun 17

Chatterbox: Testing an Open-Source TTS Tool & My Impressions

#tts #texttospeech #opensource

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8 min read

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Jun 13

From Speech to Text: A Guide to IBM Granite Speech for Audio Transcriptions

#granite #huggingface #opensource #stt

6 min read

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Jun 12

From Natural Language to SQL: A Deep Dive with Ollama and Granite

#llm #granite #ollama #sql

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8 min read

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Jun 11

Unlocking AI’s Full Potential: The Power of Synthetic Data Generation with Docling SDG

#docling #rag #llm #granite

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Jun 5

Beyond Borders: Seamless Document Translation with Docling and Granite

#docling #llm #rag #ollama

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5 min read

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May 26

Your Desktop AI: Seamlessly Running Granite with LiteLLM and Ollama

#llm #ollama #litellm #granite

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5 min read

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May 24

“AI Agents in Action” book: A Deep Dive into the Future of Intelligent Systems

#llm #ai

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May 22

Unlock New Possibilities: Docling Operator Just Announced!

#docling #kubernetes #openshift #automation

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4 min read

Alain Airom

May 21

AI Agent using Function Calling with Ollama, Granite and Terraform!

#granite #aiegent #terraform #llm

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8 min read

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May 21

Unlocking Efficiency: How watsonx Code Assistant and Terraform Redefine Infrastructure Automation

#terraform #llm #watsonx #automation

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6 min read

Alain Airom

May 19

Integration of Terraform and Ansible Together by IBM

#terraform #ansible #cloud #ibm

6 min read

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May 15

VLM Pipeline with Docling

#docling #llm #vlm #rag

7 min read

Alain Airom

May 7

Installing a Kubernetes Cluster on a Virtualized Platform (VM): how many VMs you need?

#kubernetes #openshift #virtualmachine #go

8 min read

Alain Airom

May 5

Open-source Granite 🪨 TimeSeries tiny model

7 min read

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Apr 30

Vector Databases: their utility and functioning (RAG usage)

#vectordatabase #rag #llm #vectorization

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12 min read

Alain Airom

Apr 28

Invoice Data Extraction using IBM Granite LLM locally (not from watsonx!)

#watsonx #llm #granite #huggingface

7 min read

Alain Airom

Apr 25

Writing Code (and much much more…) with watsonx Code Assistant — An update

#watsonx #codeassistant #genai #programming

9 min read

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