Alex Jacobs

AI Systems Integration | Data Science | Full-Stack Development | DevOps | Bioinformatics
Bert from Sesame Street as the NLP champion, standing victorious over defeated LLM robots

Beating BERT? Small LLMs vs Fine-Tuned Encoders for Classification

I ran 32 experiments comparing small LLMs to BERT on classification tasks. Turns out 2018-era BERT is still really good at what it does.

The Case Against PGVector

The Case Against pgvector

What happens when you try to run pgvector in production and discover all the things the blog posts conveniently forgot to mention

Extraction Generation Classification

A Production Framework for LLM Feature Evaluation

An empirical analysis of LLM application patterns that successfully scale in production systems, focusing on extraction, generation, and classification use cases

AI-generated artistic representation

A Computer Made This

OpenAI's 4o image generation is a step change in AI capabilities. A look at what reasoning in pixel space means for creative work.

RAG

RAG: From Context Injection to Knowledge Integration

A technical dive into the limitations of current RAG approaches, examining architectural challenges and exploring pathways to more integrated knowledge-aware LLM architectures.

Deep dive into python async

Deep Dive into Python Async Programming

A deep dive into Python's asynchronous programming model, exploring the event loop, coroutines, tasks, futures, and the under-the-hood mechanisms that make it all work.

Integration testing fastapi

Mastering Integration Testing with FastAPI

Integration Testing FastAPI: Harnessing the Power of Mocking Backend Services with MongoMock, MockS3, and More

CheeseGPT logo and interface

CheeseGPT

A (Very) Simple RAG Tutorial

Effective Error Handling

A simple an effective approach for handling end users who struggle with errors

NGINX authentication flow diagram

Running Jupyter lab behind NGINX--Part 2

Part 2: Configuring Jupyter Lab authentication behind NGINX, handling token-based auth bypass, and securing the reverse proxy setup on EC2.