Alain Airom

Alain Airom @aairom

About: Senior Engineer - Ecosystem Engineering - Build Lab 28+ years experience in the IT industry. Always learning!

Location:
France
Joined:
Jul 13, 2020

Alain Airom
articles - 82 total

⚡️ BREAKING: Docling Unlocks ASR (automatic speech recognition) Power!

Breaking News: Transform Your Audio with Docling’s New ASR Capacities and use withing a RAG! ...

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Local Elasticsearch Playground: A Practical Introduction and hands-on test (and moving to a RAG solution)

Hands-on experience to demonstrate advantages of RAG vs. classic search tools ...

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From Jargon to Genius: Chunking as the Key to Explainable AI Generation

Beyond the Prompt: Why Chunking is Generative AI’s Unsung Hero Introduction In the...

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What Are Vision-Language Models (VLMs) and How Do They Work?

Decoding VLMs: A Simple Explanation of Vision-Language Models Introduction In the...

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Chatterbox: Testing an Open-Source TTS Tool & My Impressions

Experience generating audio from text with chatterbox Introduction Text-to-Speech (TTS)...

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From Speech to Text: A Guide to IBM Granite Speech for Audio Transcriptions

Harnessing IBM Granite for Accurate Audio Transcription Introduction In today’s...

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From Natural Language to SQL: A Deep Dive with Ollama and Granite

Unlock Your Data: Simplifying SQL Queries building with Granite and Ollama ...

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Unlocking AI’s Full Potential: The Power of Synthetic Data Generation with Docling SDG

Using Docling synthetic data generation capabilities. Introduction In the rapidly...

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Beyond Borders: Seamless Document Translation with Docling and Granite

Using Granite alongside with Docling (and Ollama) to translate documents. Introduction In...

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Your Desktop AI: Seamlessly Running Granite with LiteLLM and Ollama

This tutorial offers an introductory hands-on experience using LiteLLM, Ollama, and Granite, perfect...

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“AI Agents in Action” book: A Deep Dive into the Future of Intelligent Systems

Ongoing learning journey. Introduction Artificial intelligence has rapidly evolved,...

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Unlock New Possibilities: Docling Operator Just Announced!

Prepare for Impact: Docling Operator Just Announced! TL;DR-What are Operators? In the...

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AI Agent using Function Calling with Ollama, Granite and Terraform!

An adaption of “Your First AI Agent using Function Calling” written and published by “LM Pro” 👏 ...

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Unlocking Efficiency: How watsonx Code Assistant and Terraform Redefine Infrastructure Automation

A brief introduction on watsonx Code Assistant & Terraform: A New Era of Intelligent...

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Integration of Terraform and Ansible Together by IBM

A word of IBM’s end-to-end value proosition with IaC automation tools; Terraform and Ansible ...

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VLM Pipeline with Docling

Hands-on experience using VLM Pipeline from Docling. Introduction Vision-Language...

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Installing a Kubernetes Cluster on a Virtualized Platform (VM): how many VMs you need?

A YAML to VM conversion app I wrote for myself. Introduction In my daily work, a...

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Open-source Granite 🪨 TimeSeries tiny model

Granite TimeSeries model completely open-source available on Hugging Face. ...

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Vector Databases: their utility and functioning (RAG usage)

A reflection on vector databases and their usage by LLMs, by implementing a rudimentary one! ...

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Invoice Data Extraction using IBM Granite LLM locally (not from watsonx!)

Adapting Granite use-case to execute locally. Introduction The Granite family of...

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Writing Code (and much much more…) with watsonx Code Assistant — An update

Experiencing code generation/documentation with “watsonx code assistant”. ...

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Build a knowledge graph from documents using Docling

First experience of building a knowledge graph from a document using Docling! ...

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Picture annotation with Docling

Use docling built-in features to make picture annotation. Introduction Picture annotation, a...

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Building a RAG with Docling and LangChain

Hands-on experience building a RAG with Docling and LangChain. Introduction This...

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MCP Server/Client and Agent and my unanswered philosophical question!

I wrote my sample MCP server, client and agent… 🤷‍♂️ Introduction Everyday, browsing...

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Running Docling as an API Server

How to start with “docling serve”! Introduction Docling offers a user-friendly...

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Steps to deploy Python applications in containers and to Kubernetes clusters for data scientists and ML engineers

Simple guidance for data science and/or ML engineers to help application deployment to containers and...

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How to import sample data into a Python notebook on watsonx.ai and other questions…

Some tips regarding using notebooks in watsonx.ai studio! Introduction Recently one of...

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Docling “Enrichment Features”

Using Docling enrichment features! Introduction Docling simplifies document processing,...

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Visual Grounding from Docling!

My experience testing for a demonstration “Visual Grounding” feature of Docling on Intel CPU. ...

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