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News and views on building powerful Search and Business Intelligence solutions.

AI Is Too Expensive

The functionality of the modern blend of AI has some immensely powerful capabilities that offer a great deal of opportunity. LLMs also have some important flaws. Awareness of what AI is, what it’s capable of (and not capable of) is crucial to weighing opportunity cost of IT time. It’s simply too expensive to not be aware of what AI is.

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A Tale of Java, LLMs, and Search

This article explores the challenges and solutions in integrating Java with large language models (LLMs) for search. It details building a proof-of-concept for leveraging popular LLMs like SBERT and OpenAI, using Python-based tools to bridge gaps in Java compatibility. Learn how vector databases, FastAPI, and Chroma enable powerful search functionalities.

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Search is Broken

How many times have we heard that yelled in our general direction? Search engines, and their teams, are only as good as the data they are given. This is true for all search engines, for all time, regardless of any machine learning algorithms or other bells and whistles they may contain.

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Quick Reporting From the Cloud With Lambda and Pentaho

We were recently engaged to come up with a simple way to generate Pentaho reports on an Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform. Our client had already created the reports with Pentaho, but preferred not to deploy a full Pentaho BI Server on an EC2 instance. As it happens, this was an excellent opportunity to employ a Lambda function.

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