I set up a local AI LLM to run and then conducted some experiments. This post shows a bit about the experiments and a little code. The setup is on my blog using Docker to containerize an Ollama LLM, which you can read about. The Basic Setup If you read my blog, I downloaded an […]
2025-01-20
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Searching for relevant information in vast repositories of unstructured text can be a challenge. This article explains a Python-based approach to implementing an efficient document search system using FAISS (Facebook AI Similarity Search) for Vector DB and sentence embeddings, which can be useful in applications like chatbots, document retrieval, and natural language understanding. In this […]
2025-01-17
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Everybody’s coasting and looking back. Let’s kick our heels up, get comfortable, and talk big picture industry stuff.
2025-01-17
2024-12-13
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This tutorial will show how to use an AI model with Python to respond to queries.
2024-11-04
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Steve has a few thoughts on how AIs change the role of databases.
2024-10-14
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2024-09-14
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One of the strange side effects of AI might be junior staff struggle to get hired and get experience. Where does that leave the industry when senior staff retires?
2024-08-26
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As part of my work with Redgate, I wanted to do some testing on our subsetting and masking tools. Subsetting needs a big data set, and while Stack Overflow is big, it's kind of simple. I wanted something a little different. Since our engineers use Northwind to do a lot of demos, I decided to […]
2024-08-26
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Exploring Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) for Butterfly Image Generation to gain some understanding of how this class of Artificial Intelligence technologies work.
2024-07-15
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By James Serra
Originally published April 2022; substantially updated July 2026. This post is a complete replacement...
The idea behind Azure SQL Developer is for anyone to build, iterate, and test...
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I’m sure many of you are using AI regularly, perhaps chatting, perhaps using some...
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