Augmenting Science Journalism
Inside the SMC Lab, we’re not just observing science journalism; we’re actively shaping it. Serving as an essential segment of the Science Media Center Germany, we’re pioneering advancements in how scientific discoveries and understanding reach the public.
This blog is your front-row seat to our work, offering a firsthand look at innovative projects, profound research, and our commitment to making science and news accessible for all.
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The Limits of “Classical” LLMs and Why RAG is a Solution
In this 6-part blog series, we will give you an overview of how we implemented a RAG system in the Science Media Center. But before we get lost in technical details, we’ll start the series with some theoretical background you should know. In this first part, we’ll look at the problems of “classical” LLM (i.e.,…
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KISS: Backup Databases inside Docker Containers via bash
“Keep it simple [and] stupid!” – Not only an important principle, but also a series on this blog. If you ever find yourself in the position of running multiple Docker containers with various databases, you will inevitably ask yourself at some point how you actually pack all that data cleverly into a backup. Docker itself…
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Basic Research Agents
(Part 3 of a four part series presented at the Masterclass “From chatbots to personalized research assistants: a journey through the new ecosystems related to Large Language Models” at the Medien Triennale Südwest 2023) The old dream of autonomous agents, of programs that can interact independently with a (virtual) world in order to tackle a…
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Retrieval-Augmented Generation
(Part 2 of a four part series presented at the Masterclass “From chatbots to personalized research assistants: a journey through the new ecosystems related to Large Language Models” at the Medien Triennale Südwest 2023) Enhancing content generation with retrieval-augmented techniques offers a powerful approach to enriching the context of a prompt. By incorporating retrieved data…