I have completely missed the announcement of Spring Framework 7.0 (https://spring.io/blog/2024/10/01/from-spring-framework-6-2-to-7-0) which will happen at the beginning of next year. The decision was made to stick with Java 17, though most comments…
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Moshi Foundation Model for Speech-Text Processing
If you’re looking for an alternative to the Whisper stack, one option worth considering is Moshi. I’ve originally found it mentioned on X: Summary: Key Features: Mimi Codec: Training and Evaluation:
WIP: Quarkus
I started to learn something different from Spring Boot, which I use daily in my work. My choice is Quarkus – here I will gather some useful things. Long time I was…
Offline Whisper Audio Transcription and Ollama-Voice Assistant
The WhisperLive project is a real-time transcription application that utilizes the OpenAI Whisper model to convert speech input into text output. This technology can be employed for transcribing both live audio input…
PAR LLAMA: A Terminal User Interface for Easy Ollama Model Management
PAR LLAMA is a Terminal User Interface (TUI) application designed for easy management and use of Ollama based Large Language Models (LLMs). This means that users can interact with the Ollama model…
ColPali and Byaldi for reading PDFs with images, Reflection-70B
Multi-modal documents were always a problem, but what I can read now AI developers already made a huge progress, beating traditional PDF parsers. Now we have at least 3 solutions available as…
AI programming tools
Claude, Cursor or Replit agents? It seems like the market of application creation AI tools is growing fast. After a very good Claude Sonnet application creation chat, developers moved to Cursor and…
WIP: Hugging Face cheatsheet part 1
As prerequisite we need to have Python, pip, venv installed, for Git there is a need for lfs, because Hugging Face supports files larger than 5GB in repos. To work with with…
A Content Creation Assistant
The time has come for a little presentation. After regular work, I tried to merge some tools which can help me to work on this blog. I took a month to have…
The Power of Existing Solutions
I have described my tasks then added as first of my subtasks: “check for existing solutions first!!!”, and it’s for sure the best what I wrote and what reduced about 5 more…