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Micronaut Data and pgvector

java

micronaut

data

jdbc

postgres

pgvector

word embeddings

How to retrieve vector data from Postgres using Micronaut Data

Mar 17, 2025

9 min

How accurate is the weather forecast?

python

data science

meteorology

We rely on weather forecasts to plan our day but how reliable are they really?

Mar 3, 2025

5 min

Micronaut 3x Security: Authentication with Firebase

java

firebase

micronaut

security

How to authenticate tokens issued by Firebase in Micronaut 3x security

Feb 27, 2025

5 min

Hosting on the Google Cloud Platform

cloud

infrastructure

java

microservices

Dissecting different hosting options on GCP at varying levels of complexity.

Dec 8, 2024

8 min

Testing linear regression empirically

python

statistics

linear regression

In this blog post we will disect ordinary least squares regression, and what it can (and can’t) do.

Nov 4, 2024

4 min

How much calories does an LLM burn?

llm

deep learning

energy

A whimsical attempt at making sense of LLM energy consumption

Sep 20, 2024

4 min

Thinking is not hierarchical, why should AI be?

machine learning

deep learning

artificial intelligence

A comment on Yann LeCun’s A Path Towards Autonomous AI

Jun 1, 2024

10 min

Word embedding similarity is tricky

python

rust

word embeddings

machine learning

Even though word embeddings are widely used, we do not know a whole lot about them

May 6, 2024

9 min

Building a property graph database from scratch

python

neo4j

graph

database

Graph databases have gained in popularity. They rely on simply but effective building blocks, which this post will discuss.

Apr 8, 2024

10 min

Mapping spans from one document to another, an excellent interview question

leadership

interviews

python

Designing suitable questions for technical interviews is tricky. Using a real-world example, we’ll discuss what can set your questions apart.

Mar 3, 2024

10 min

The relationship between L2 norm and dropout in linear regression

python

deep learning

L2 norm and dropout are widely regarded to be equivalent in regression models, which this blog post will challenge

Feb 1, 2024

5 min

Playing “The game” with Monte Carlo simulations

games

python

simulation

Sometimes playing a game is not enough, and one wants to figure out how to beat it.

Jan 5, 2024

8 min

Apple may be the last stronghold for privacy

apple

privacy

In an interesting turn of events Apple will inadvertently become the leading company to protect consumer privacy

Dec 28, 2023

4 min

NVIDIA resolves gRPC performance issues

machine learning

nvidia

triton inference server

Using Triton Inference Server’s gRPC interface one could encounter massive performance drops. Taking a look at the benchmark shows the regression has been resolved!

Nov 28, 2023

4 min

Graph randomization is not the same as graph randomization

network science

jupyter

In network science, node degree and strength are important properties. When randomising networks one needs to take them into consideration

Nov 25, 2023

3 min

The missing spaCy benchmark

python

spacy

nlp

spaCy is a self-proclaimed “Industrial-Strength Natural Language Processing” tool. This post will shed some light on its capabilities outside of named entity recognition.

Sep 28, 2023

6 min