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Table of Contents Vector Search with FAISS: Approximate Nearest Neighbor (ANN) Explained From Exact to Approximate: Why Indexing Matters The Trouble with Brute-Force Search The Curse of Dimensionality Enter the Approximate Nearest Neighbor (ANN) Accuracy vs. Latency: The Core Trade-Off…

Table of Contents TF-IDF vs. Embeddings: From Keywords to Semantic Search Series Preamble: From Text to RAG What You’ll Build Across the Series Project Structure Why Start with Embeddings The Problem with Keyword Search When “Different Words” Mean the Same…

Table of Contents Advanced SAM 3: Multi-Modal Prompting and Interactive Segmentation Configuring Your Development Environment Setup and Imports Loading the SAM 3 Model Downloading a Few Images Multi-Text Prompts on a Single Image Batched Inference Using Multiple Text Prompts Across…

Table of Contents SAM 3: Concept-Based Visual Understanding and Segmentation The Evolution of Segment Anything: From Geometry to Concepts Core Model Architecture and Technical Components The Perception Encoder (PE) and Vision Backbone The Open-Vocabulary Text and Exemplar Encoders The DETR-Based…

Table of Contents Grounded SAM 2: From Open-Set Detection to Segmentation and Tracking Why Segmentation Matters (Beyond Bounding Boxes) Introducing Grounded SAM 2 Where SAM Fits in the Pipeline Why SAM 2 (and not SAM) How Grounded SAM 2 Works…

Table of Contents Integrating Streamlit with Snowflake for Live Cloud Data Apps (Part 2) Building the Main Driver Script Imports and Page Setup Connection Page: Detecting Environment Variables and Validating Configuration Run Query: Executing Read-Only SQL with Timing and Row…

Table of Contents Integrating Streamlit with Snowflake for Live Cloud Data Apps (Part 1) Introduction: Why Connect Streamlit to Snowflake What Is Snowflake (and Why It Matters) Configuring Your Development Environment Step 1: Create a Snowflake Trial Account Step 2:…

Table of Contents Building Your First Streamlit App: Uploads, Charts, and Filters (Part 2) Upload Page: Custom CSV Uploads Code Block Line-by-Line Explanation Teaching Points Profile Page: Descriptive Stats and Missingness Code Block Line-by-Line Explanation Why It Matters Visualize Page:…

The commoditization of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) has historically been a race to the bottom on price, often at the expense of structural fidelity. However, the release of Mistral OCR 3 signals a distinct shift in the market. By claiming…