This document shows semantic search on Elasticsearch on PDF documents without any additional client code.
[Read More]SSO and RBAC for Elasticsearch (Kibana)
This page documents the steps for:
- using an external Identity Provider for user authentication to Kibana (single sign-on, aka SSO)
- providing differentiated access to Kibana based on the assigned role to the authenticated user (role-based access control, aka RBAC)
System Setup for GPU Performance Measurements
In this document, I outline the steps to set up a system to take NVIDIA GPU performance measurements. This could be required, for example, to analyze and improve the performance of an LLM.
[Read More]Field Level Access Control with Elasticsearch
This page documents experiments with field-level access control in ES8.x.
[Read More]Favorite Books of 2024
Some favorite books of 2024, and further thoughts they evoke.
[Read More]Opinion: With Apache Beam, Tread Carefully
Machine learning teams today often want to process data in real-time. They also standardize on Python as a programming language. Apache Beam supports Python and gives a lot of hope, but my opinion is that this combination is practically too complex and unreliable to put in production.
[Read More]Implementation Notes on LLMs for the Enterprise Use-Case
Note: My blog posts are (still) 100% handwritten, without any contribution from an AI model.
Large language models (LLMs) are very powerful, as ChatGPT has demonstrated very successfully. In this post, I will document some caveats, tips and pointers if you are interested in utilizing an LLM for an enterprise use-case.
[Read More]Tutorial: Understanding Beam with a Local Beam, Flink and Kafka Environment
Barrett on the Human Brain
In the past, I have written here about the theory of psychology. One weak point about it is that it’s a lot of, well, theory. However, what if there was an underlying physical reality to it, i.e. to how our brains develop and work? I recently read two books by Lisa Feldman Barrett. I think she provides this much-needed connection.
[Read More]In Search of Lost Time
As the year 2021 draws to an end, it is a good time to write about In Search of Lost Time. I found a graphic novel adaptation of it and bought it for my fortieth birthday. The title seemed quite apt.
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