One Document Type, a Million Files: Structured Extraction into the SQL Table RAG Queries
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #14C] - One hour with two people, six to ten fields, and the two signals that separate a real column from one that will break a filter later
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I Deployed My Data Pipeline to AWS. Then Everything That Was “Local” Broke.
What moving a Dockerized pipeline off my laptop taught me about containers, networking, and hidden assumptions.
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10 Positions for Enterprise RAG That Mainstream Tutorials Get Wrong
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #M3] - The ten positions the series argues from, and the map of every article that argues them
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How to Leverage Local Small Language Models for Your Projects
A practical guide to running compact, privacy-preserving language models on your own hardware for faster, cheaper, and more controllable AI-powered applications.
How to Use Kimi K3: Moonshot AI’s 2.8T Open-Weight Model
Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 is a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model built with a Mixture-of-Experts architecture. It activates only a small fraction of its parameters per token, helping reduce inference costs while delivering strong coding and agentic performance. K3 combines near-frontier capabilit...
Survival Analysis and the Cox Proportional Hazards Model: A Beginner-Friendly Guide
From Kaplan-Meier curves to hazard ratios with runnable Python Code throughout
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Bug Detection Blind Spots in AI Coding Harnesses (GStack and Beyond)
28 debugging experiments reveal that AI struggles less with complexity than with missing information.
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Why We Fine-Tuned SigLip (And Why That’s Not Always the Right Call)
LoRA fine-tuning solved our under-labeling problem. Whether it makes sense for you depends on three questions.
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Retrieve One Row from a Table, Not the Whole Table: Row-Level Chunks for RAG
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #7sexies] - The unit of retrieval doesn’t have to be a page or a paragraph. When the corpus carries tables, each body row with its column headers is a chunk in its own right, and it’s often the one row the reader asked about
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The Types of Dimensions in a Star Schema, and How to Use Them
Dimensions are one of the two main object types in dimensional modelling. But what are the different types of dimensions? And how can you use them?
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Bayesian Guardrails for AI Decisions: Measuring Uncertainty Before Automating Decisions
AI systems should not automate a decision simply because they can provide a prediction. A decision system should consider how uncertain the prediction is and defer if a mistake would be costly.
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How Benders Decomposition Works, Part II: Feasibility Cuts
Learning about Farkas' lemma and how it can inform Benders decomposition to learn from infeasibility, applied to the capacitated facility location problem.
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PagedAttention vs. RadixAttention: Optimizing LLM KV Cache Management
Modern LLMs rely on quantization, pruning, distillation, and faster attention kernels, but production performance often depends most on KV cache management. As context windows grow, the cache consumes significant GPU memory, limiting concurrency, throughput, and latency. Two breakthroughs transforme...
How to Build a Robust RAG System with Minimal Resources
In this article, you will learn how to design, assemble, and tune a retrieval-augmented generation system that runs entirely on a standard laptop, without cloud...
How to Scale an Integration Pipeline Without Breaking Correctness
A production account of scaling an enterprise integration pipeline from 500 to 8,000 events per second, and the two correctness guarantees the throughput work was never allowed to trade away.
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Kimi K3’s 1M Token Context Window vs. RAG: Cost, Latency and Answer Quality
A controlled comparison of a top-5 RAG pipeline and a full 127,000 token prompt on the same 12 questions, same system prompt and same model. Graded blind on correctness, completeness and grounding.
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People can accept tradeoffs when they see value — but if they don’t, what happens?
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How to Remove Claude Watermarks from Text, Code, and Files
Claude now marks AI-generated content. But it does not mark everything the same way. Anthropic currently uses embedded watermarks for text and signed C2PA provenance metadata for supported files. Code sits somewhere in between: it is still text, but its structure gives the watermark fewer places to ...