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Exploring Haystack: Building Advanced NLP Applications with LLMs and Vector Search

January 21, 2024

My practical tips and experiences from working with the Haystack LLM framework. I cover version differences (1.x vs. 2.x beta), the benefits of developing with a forked repository, managing Python dependencies for projects like this, and how to contribute back to open-source.

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