Joe Barrowhttps://jbarrow.ai/2026-06-12T00:00:00ZJoe BarrowSearching, Fast and Slowhttps://jbarrow.ai/2026-06-12-searching-fast-and-slow/2026-06-12T00:00:00ZRevisiting "Slow Search" in the age of agentic retrieval.Joe BarrowBuilding a 1-Outlet, 4-GPU Workstationhttps://jbarrow.ai/2026-05-18-gpu-workstation/2026-05-18T00:00:00ZAs a grad student, the one thing I desperately wanted was a GPU workstation. As a gainfully employed adult I can finally make that happen.Joe BarrowAgents have (Information) Needshttps://jbarrow.ai/2026-05-13-agentic-information-need/2026-05-13T00:00:00ZInformation retrieval is about satisfying an information need, but a query is a poor stand-in. Your agent is capable of expressing one, so you should probably use it.Joe BarrowOCR's Cambrian Explosion 1 - Introductionhttps://jbarrow.ai/2026-05-09-ocr-cambrian/2026-05-12T00:00:00ZStrong, open VLMs enabled an explosion of open OCR model releases, with little sign of things letting up. In this survey, I detail the models, their evaluation, research trends, and open questions.Joe BarrowGoogle Gemini 102 - Advanced Structured Outputshttps://jbarrow.ai/2025-01-22-gemini-102/2025-01-22T00:00:00ZProbing the supported output types of Gemini.Joe BarrowGoogle Gemini 101 - Object Detectionhttps://jbarrow.ai/2025-01-15-gemini-101/2025-01-15T00:00:00ZNavigating Gemini's API for object detection with vision and Structured Outputs.Joe BarrowBe Careful Interpreting Averaged Benchmarkshttps://jbarrow.ai/2025-01-09-averaged-benchmarks/2025-01-09T00:00:00ZThoughts on averaged benchmarks and hidden correlations.Joe BarrowIntroduction to TinyHNSWhttps://jbarrow.ai/2024-12-01-introduction-to-tinyhnsw/2024-12-01T00:00:00ZThe first post in the TinyHNSW series, introducing the tutorial and the library.Joe Barrow