Leonie
@helloiamleonie
I do Machine Learning at @weaviate_io and write about it on the Internet | Google Developer Expert (Kaggle)
Ok, I’ll bite: What’s ColPali? (And why should anyone working with RAG over PDFs care?) ColPali makes information retrieval from complex document types - like PDFs - easier. Information retrieval from PDFs is hard because they contain various components: Text, images, tables,…

Thanks to @intellectronica for recommending trying Gemini in Google Colab. It's by far the best user experience of AI-assisted coding with a Jupyter Notebook I've had so far!
Some notes after taking Claude Code and Gemini CLI for a spin with Jupyter Notebooks: These "terminal agents" are intended for writing and editing text and code, so they have some limitations when it comes to specifics with Jupyter Notebooks: - One of them (not to name names)…
We built a skincare app 𝗱𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝗹𝘀𝗲 on the market. But it took a lot more than just slapping AI on a data pipeline. We just released 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗲 - and it's not your typical beauty app. It's what happens when you combine domain knowledge…
🚀 Kaggle Benchmarks is here! Get competition-grade rigor for AI model evaluation. Let Kaggle handle infrastructure while you focus on AI breakthroughs. View model performance on 70+ leaderboards, including @AIatMeta's MultiLoKo. Dive in: kaggle.com/blog/announcin…
I wrote a blog post about my experience using different coding agents (Claude code and Gemini cli with and without Cursor and Gemini in Colab) but everything changes so fast that I think the blog is already outdated although I haven’t even published it yet 🙂↕️
Get started with Gemini Embedding using @weaviate_io, which supports over 100+ languages and flexible dimensions for performance and storage needs. Check out the notebook. github.com/weaviate/recip…
Kaggle Benchmarks is live – your new home for trustworthy, competition-grade AI evaluation. Leveraging Kaggle's rigorous competition experience, we're redefining industry standards. The community's creativity fuels AI's future! Get early access to custom benchmark creation:…
Would there be a way for big tech to "donate" the unused hours on their massive GPU clusters to open science and open-source AI developers? Could add up to significant amounts put to good use?
I read @helloiamleonie's excellent post "37 Things I Learned About Information Retrieval..." and thought, damn, this is stuff I never want to forget. So I create a bunch of flashcards to add to my collection. Maybe it will be useful to you too. gist.github.com/intellectronic…
One stage 3 legends plus Phil 🖤 @PrimeIntellect meetup in Berlin @Prince_Canuma @willccbb @MaziyarPanahi
𝘎𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪 𝘌𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘥𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 🤜🤛 𝘞𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘦 We just published a new recipe notebook showing you how to use Google's Gemini embeddings with Weaviate. • 𝟭𝟬𝟬+ 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗱: Build truly multilingual search experiences • 𝗠𝗧𝗘𝗕…
No code Weaviate is here. And it’s part of the world’s favorite automation platform: @n8n_io. Our new community node changes everything. Here’s what it can do: 1. Insert documents into a Weaviate collection. 2. Return ranked documents based on queries from a Weaviate…
girl math: i’m actually saving money if i get a reachy mini instead of a labubu
5 days after launch and we've sold $1M of Reachy Mini Steadily getting $50k orders per day following the release peak time to ramp up production!
This sounds pretty interesting! Evaluating on your own data and use case is important for both generative and retrieval tasks (and all other tasks for that matter).
🔥 @Kaggle introduces Personal Benchmarks as part of the Kaggle Benchmarks at ICML2025! Evaluating models can feel like a chore. This new code-first feature of Kaggle Benchmarks allows users to create custom evaluation tasks and compare different LLMs without managing framework…
Our latest CS336 Language Modeling from Scratch lectures are now available! View the entire playlist here: youtube.com/playlist?list=…
Ever felt overwhelmed in finding your perfect skincare routine? We just launched 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗲 - an AI-powered Korean skincare app that actually understands what your skin needs. Try it out here: glowe.app/?utm_source=ch… Here's what makes Glowe special: 🎯…
Clicked for the monochromatic visuals. Stayed for the technical details.
Everything you need to know is in our engineering blueprint