RAG tricks from the trenches

In the period of the generative AI boom, everything is happening all at once. Every day a new model comes out, every week a billion dollar company teases a great new advancement. More often than not, they'll show us some fancy version of this: We all love a misterious chart …

I'm flying over the Atlantic just between France and Spain for my yearly Christmas trip back to Lisbon. For some reason, I just remembered the blog post I always wanted to write. This one is not about tech, but it's about something I'm equally passionate about: The Marathon. Funnily - I'm …

For the past year, this website's podcast companion has been running on a text-to-speech model called XTTS-v2. It's not horrible. And those who have heard my voice before might notice some similarities. But it's far from a pleasant listenning experience. But the world of text-to-speech (TTS) has been gradually moving …

For the past years Vitto and I have used Tricount to track our shared expenses. The app is actually pretty good, but there’s one small thing that annoys me quite a bit. Even though we spoke English to each other for the first month, we’ve since spoken a …