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• Postgres Schema for Prompting

  Published:Dec 16, 2024 |  at 03:30 PM

  A query to get your postgres schema for llm prompts

• Sending Webhooks with Temporal

  Published:Dec 10, 2024 |  at 01:00 PM

  Using temporal to deliver webhooks reliably

• Building Tools for Agents

  Published:Dec 8, 2024 |  at 08:00 PM

  Some things I learned building an email tool for agents

• Converting MS Office Files to PDFs for RAG

  Published:Dec 2, 2024 |  at 07:45 PM

  A quick and dirty way to include docx and xlsx files in your LLM application

• Parsing Readline PDFs

  Published:Nov 25, 2024 |  at 09:20 PM

  Strategies for parsing redline PDFs

• Efficient References with LLMs

  Published:Nov 19, 2024 |  at 06:10 PM

  Using marker injection can solve a lot of issues with LLM document referencing, particularly for exact text matching and token efficiency.

• When is Code Generation Useful?

  Published:Apr 13, 2024 |  at 09:48 PM

  As LLMs get smarter and faster, is code generation necessary?

• Are these two people the same? Solving entity resolution with LLMs

  Published:Mar 4, 2024 |  at 03:05 PM

  Figuring out whether two entities (people, places, products, etc.) are the same for data joins or de-duplication can always be a challenge, particularly when dealing with messy data with no unique identifier. LLMs provide a potentially simpler / more generalizable solution to this problem