In the dynamic landscape of artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP), the demand for efficient and high-performance vector databases has never been more crucial. These databases serve as the backbone for various applications, including language models (LLMs) that rely on semantic understanding. In this blog post, we delve into three leading vector databases […]
Unlock Efficiency: Slash Costs and Supercharge Performance with Semantic Caching for Your LLM App!
A semantic cache for large language model (LLM) based applications introduces a plethora of advantages that revolutionize their performance and usability. Primarily, it significantly enhances processing speed and responsiveness by storing precomputed representations of frequently used language elements. This minimizes the need for repetitive computations, leading to quicker response times and reduced latency, thereby optimizing […]
Optimizing Energy Efficiency: Viessmann Heat Pumps and Home Assistant Integration Guide
In the fast-paced world of smart home technology, the fusion of cutting-edge heating solutions and automation platforms is revolutionizing the way we manage our homes. In this comprehensive guide, we’ll explore the seamless integration of Viessmann heat pumps with Home Assistant, emphasizing how this synergy not only enhances convenience but also takes energy efficiency to […]
A DIY Guide: Measuring Water Temperature with an NTC 10K Thermistor and ESP32
In the world of DIY electronics, combining sensors with microcontrollers opens up a realm of possibilities for monitoring and measuring various environmental factors. One such project involves using an NTC 10K thermistor (Viessmann Speichertemperatursensor NTC 10k l=3750 7725998) and an ESP32 microcontroller to measure water temperature accurately. In this guide, we’ll walk you through the […]
InqueryIQ – A fully-automatic OpenAI email support agent for your own products and services
Providing human support engineers to handle incoming queries about products and services can be both costly and limited in its scalability. This is particularly challenging for self-published mobile apps and small to medium-sized businesses, as they often lack the financial resources to offer human support. I personally experienced this issue when I published my own […]
How to connect an ESP32 to a free Wifi behind a Captive Portal?
Connecting an ESP32 board to a public Wi-Fi network with a captive portal that requires user interaction can be a bit tricky. Your ESP32 does not have any user-driven interaction possibilities and each captive portal offers different steps for users to consent. Sometimes its a single page with terms of use and a simple accpet […]
OpenTelemetry: How to Observe a Dockerized Python Service in Google Cloud
Over the last couple of years, OpenTelemetry became the de-facto instrumentation standard for collecting and observing distributed service trace information. OpenTelemetry allows users to add standardized instrumentation code within their applications with the purpose of observing traces, metrics, logs and events independent of service implementation technologies and across all the major cloud vendors. Within this […]
Use Google Cloud Storage in Python to Backup and Load your AI/ML Data
Amazon S3 simple object storage represents the industry standard for cheap storage of large files. All modern cloud vendors do offer S3 alternative services that offer the same access and nearly the same conditions in terms of features and prices. One can say that S3 represents the backbone of modern cloud storages offering a scalable, […]
Does OpenAI ChatGPT recognize its own creations?
There is a lot of hype ongoing about the amazing capabilities of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and how it will revolutionize the writing of texts. Schools and universities are worried that ChatGPT will widely be used by students to summarize larger texts, books or general topics. Those ChatGPT generated texts, which seem perfect in word, sentences and […]
Run a private Vaultwarden Password Safe as Docker Container on a Synology NAS
With hundreds of unique, cryptic passwords to manage we all have to admit that we are overwhelmed with today’s security requirements. Password safes along with two factor authentication (2FA) promises some help to organize those large numbers of auto-generated passwords. As Web based password safes became pretty popular for obvious reasons, they also represent a […]