Blog by Hermann Schmidt

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Swiss Army Knife for Salesforce: LLM with In-Memory Database

Large Language Models (LLMs) struggle with transforming large datasets, particularly when performing aggregations that require calculations - essentially anything where you’d normally use GROUP BY or ORDER BY in SQL. But what if we need to retrieve extensive data from a system and process it with an LLM, but only have an API with limited functionality available? In this blog post, I present a solution I’ve implemented and tested.

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Transcribing podcasts with large language models

Automatically transcribing podcasts with multimodal AI sounds like a no-brainer, but the devil is in the details.

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Better RAG With Hybrid Search

Why the overemphasis on vector search does not solve the problem

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When the Worldview is Shifting

Large Language Models (LLMs) can feel like magic. We observe them and imagine that they work in a certain way. Then something surprises us, shattering the illusion and fundamentally reshaping our understanding. In this blogpost I’ll show you one such surprise from my own experience, and I believe that your worldview will have changed at the end.

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Boring Innovation?

Does innovation always come with the latest technology or can innovation even seem boring? A quick look at a story from my work as an IT consultant.