Guides & Tutorials — The Latent DailyStep-by-step AI guides and tutorials for beginners, power users and developers.https://thelatentdaily.com/en-usHow to summarize long documents with AI without losing the important partshttps://thelatentdaily.com/guides/how-to-summarize-long-documents-with-ai/https://thelatentdaily.com/guides/how-to-summarize-long-documents-with-ai/A step-by-step method to get accurate summaries of reports, contracts and papers from any AI assistant, including how to check the result for missing facts.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 05:48:00 GMTGuides & Tutorialsguidessummarizationproductivitypromptingdario_admin@resolvia-crm.techHow to transcribe audio on your own computer with Whisperhttps://thelatentdaily.com/guides/transcribe-audio-locally-with-whisper/https://thelatentdaily.com/guides/transcribe-audio-locally-with-whisper/Install OpenAI's open-source Whisper speech recognition model, transcribe recordings offline, choose the right model size and export subtitles in minutes.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 05:47:00 GMTGuides & Tutorialsguidesspeechlocal-aiopen-sourcewhisperdario_admin@resolvia-crm.techWhat is machine learning? A beginner's guide with everyday exampleshttps://thelatentdaily.com/guides/what-is-machine-learning-beginners-guide/https://thelatentdaily.com/guides/what-is-machine-learning-beginners-guide/Machine learning explained from zero: how computers learn patterns from examples, the three main types of learning, and where you already use it every day.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 05:46:00 GMTBeginner's Cornerbeginnersmachine-learningexplainerdario_admin@resolvia-crm.techWhat is generative AI? Text, images and audio explained simplyhttps://thelatentdaily.com/guides/what-is-generative-ai-beginners-guide/https://thelatentdaily.com/guides/what-is-generative-ai-beginners-guide/A plain-English introduction to generative AI: how chatbots and image generators create new content, what they are good at, and the mistakes to watch for.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 05:45:00 GMTBeginner's Cornerbeginnersgenerative-aillmsexplainerdario_admin@resolvia-crm.techFew-shot prompting: how to teach an AI model with a handful of exampleshttps://thelatentdaily.com/guides/few-shot-prompting-guide/https://thelatentdaily.com/guides/few-shot-prompting-guide/Show, don't tell: how to use examples inside a prompt to get consistent formats, tone and classifications from any language model, with ready-to-use templates.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 05:42:00 GMTPrompt Engineeringpromptingfew-shotguidesdario_admin@resolvia-crm.techChain-of-thought prompting: getting better answers by asking for the reasoninghttps://thelatentdaily.com/guides/chain-of-thought-prompting-explained/https://thelatentdaily.com/guides/chain-of-thought-prompting-explained/Why asking a model to reason step by step improves math and logic answers, how reasoning models changed the technique, and when it is not worth the extra tokens.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 05:41:00 GMTPrompt Engineeringpromptingreasoningchain-of-thoughtdario_admin@resolvia-crm.techCheat sheet: which kind of AI model to use for which taskhttps://thelatentdaily.com/guides/cheat-sheet-choose-the-right-ai-model/https://thelatentdaily.com/guides/cheat-sheet-choose-the-right-ai-model/A one-page decision guide: when to use a large model, a small one, a reasoning model, an open-weight model, an embedding model or a specialized model.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 05:34:00 GMTCheat Sheetscheat-sheetmodelsdecision-guidedario_admin@resolvia-crm.techPrompting cheat sheet: 12 patterns that work with any AI assistanthttps://thelatentdaily.com/guides/cheat-sheet-prompting-patterns/https://thelatentdaily.com/guides/cheat-sheet-prompting-patterns/Role, context, examples, format, constraints and self-checks: twelve reusable prompt patterns on a single page, each with a short template you can copy.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 05:33:00 GMTCheat Sheetscheat-sheetpromptingproductivitydario_admin@resolvia-crm.techThe math behind AI: what you actually need to knowhttps://thelatentdaily.com/guides/math-you-need-for-ai/https://thelatentdaily.com/guides/math-you-need-for-ai/Linear algebra, calculus, probability and statistics: which parts of math matter for understanding and building AI, explained with intuition first.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 05:28:00 GMTMath for AImathlearningmachine-learningdario_admin@resolvia-crm.techGradient descent explained with one simple examplehttps://thelatentdaily.com/guides/gradient-descent-explained-simple-example/https://thelatentdaily.com/guides/gradient-descent-explained-simple-example/The algorithm that trains almost every AI model, explained with a hiker in the fog and a few lines of Python: gradients, learning rates and why training can fail.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 05:27:00 GMTMath for AImathgradient-descentmachine-learningpythondario_admin@resolvia-crm.techHow to use AI coding assistants effectively: a practical workflowhttps://thelatentdaily.com/guides/how-to-use-ai-coding-assistants-effectively/https://thelatentdaily.com/guides/how-to-use-ai-coding-assistants-effectively/Get better results from Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code and other coding assistants: give context, work in small steps, review every change and keep tests in the loop.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 04:57:00 GMTAI Codingai-codingdevelopersproductivitybest-practicesdario_admin@resolvia-crm.techModel Context Protocol (MCP) explained: the "USB-C port" for AI toolshttps://thelatentdaily.com/guides/model-context-protocol-mcp-explained/https://thelatentdaily.com/guides/model-context-protocol-mcp-explained/MCP is an open standard for connecting AI assistants to tools and data. How servers, clients and tools work, how to try it, and the security points to know.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 04:54:00 GMTAgents & Agentic AImcpagentstool-useopen-standardsdario_admin@resolvia-crm.techYour first LLM API call: a step-by-step guide in Pythonhttps://thelatentdaily.com/guides/first-llm-api-call-python-guide/https://thelatentdaily.com/guides/first-llm-api-call-python-guide/Set up an API key safely, send your first request to a language model in Python, understand messages, tokens and parameters, and handle errors and costs.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 04:53:00 GMTAPIs & SDKsapispythondeveloperstutorialdario_admin@resolvia-crm.techStructured outputs and function calling: getting reliable data from LLMshttps://thelatentdaily.com/guides/structured-outputs-and-function-calling-explained/https://thelatentdaily.com/guides/structured-outputs-and-function-calling-explained/How to make language models return valid JSON that matches a schema, how function calling works, and how to validate outputs so your application never breaks.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 04:52:00 GMTAPIs & SDKsapisjsonfunction-callingdevelopersdario_admin@resolvia-crm.techHow retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) works, step by stephttps://thelatentdaily.com/guides/how-retrieval-augmented-generation-works/https://thelatentdaily.com/guides/how-retrieval-augmented-generation-works/RAG lets AI answer from your documents. Each stage explained: ingestion, chunking, embeddings, retrieval, reranking, prompting and evaluation, with practical tips.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 04:51:00 GMTRAG, Search & Vector DBsragembeddingsvector-databasesdevelopersdario_admin@resolvia-crm.techVector databases explained: how they work and how to choose onehttps://thelatentdaily.com/guides/vector-databases-explained-how-to-choose/https://thelatentdaily.com/guides/vector-databases-explained-how-to-choose/Embeddings, similarity search, indexes like HNSW and the trade-offs between pgvector, Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant, Milvus and Chroma for your RAG project.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 04:50:00 GMTRAG, Search & Vector DBsvector-databasesragembeddingsdevelopersdario_admin@resolvia-crm.techFine-tuning an LLM with LoRA: a practical overviewhttps://thelatentdaily.com/guides/fine-tuning-llm-with-lora-practical-overview/https://thelatentdaily.com/guides/fine-tuning-llm-with-lora-practical-overview/When fine-tuning helps, how LoRA and QLoRA make it affordable, how to prepare data, train, evaluate and deploy an adapter — and when not to fine-tune at all.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 04:49:00 GMTFine-tuning & Trainingfine-tuningloraqloraopen-weightsdario_admin@resolvia-crm.techHow to run a local LLM with Ollama: installation to first chathttps://thelatentdaily.com/guides/run-local-llm-with-ollama-guide/https://thelatentdaily.com/guides/run-local-llm-with-ollama-guide/Install Ollama, download an open model, chat in the terminal or a web interface, pick a model that fits your memory and use the local API from your own code.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 04:47:00 GMTLocal & On-device AIlocal-aiollamaopen-weightsprivacydario_admin@resolvia-crm.techQuantization explained: how big AI models run on small hardwarehttps://thelatentdaily.com/guides/quantization-explained-running-big-models/https://thelatentdaily.com/guides/quantization-explained-running-big-models/Quantization shrinks AI models by storing weights with fewer bits. How 8-bit and 4-bit formats work, GGUF, GPTQ and AWQ, and the quality trade-offs to expect.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 04:46:00 GMTLocal & On-device AIquantizationlocal-aiinferenceexplainerdario_admin@resolvia-crm.techHow LLM inference serving works: batching, KV cache and vLLMhttps://thelatentdaily.com/guides/how-llm-inference-serving-works-vllm/https://thelatentdaily.com/guides/how-llm-inference-serving-works-vllm/What happens when a server answers thousands of LLM requests: prefill and decode, the KV cache, continuous batching, PagedAttention and the metrics that matter.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 04:45:00 GMTMLOps & Infrastructureinferencevllmmlopsgpusdario_admin@resolvia-crm.techHow much GPU memory does an AI model need? A sizing guidehttps://thelatentdaily.com/guides/gpu-memory-sizing-for-llms/https://thelatentdaily.com/guides/gpu-memory-sizing-for-llms/Estimate the GPU memory needed to run or fine-tune a language model: weights, KV cache, activations and overhead, with worked examples for 8B and 70B models.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 04:44:00 GMTMLOps & Infrastructuregpusmlopsinferencesizingdario_admin@resolvia-crm.techHow to build an evaluation set for an LLM applicationhttps://thelatentdaily.com/guides/how-to-build-an-evaluation-set-for-llm-apps/https://thelatentdaily.com/guides/how-to-build-an-evaluation-set-for-llm-apps/The most important tool in AI engineering: how to collect test cases, define success criteria, score outputs automatically and by hand, and run evals on every change.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 04:43:00 GMTEvals & Observabilityevalstestingdevelopersqualitydario_admin@resolvia-crm.tech