Kjarni

August 25, 2026

Local Embeddings for Microsoft.Extensions.AI, no Ollama

Implement IEmbeddingGenerator locally in .NET. Plug Kjarni into Microsoft.Extensions.AI and Semantic Kernel with one NuGet package that has zero dependencies. Runs on CPU, in your process, offline.

August 27, 2026

Reranking in C# with a Cross-Encoder

Improve search relevance in .NET with cross-encoder reranking. Rescore your existing search results from Elasticsearch, SQL LIKE, or vector search, locally in C# and in your own process.

August 27, 2026

RAG in C# without a Vector Database

Build a retrieval-augmented generation pipeline in C#: index documents, search them, rerank the hits, and answer with a local LLM. One NuGet package, start to finish, with every stage running on your own machine.

August 31, 2026

The 256-token limit in all-MiniLM-L6-v2

Three config files disagree about how long a MiniLM input can be. sentence-transformers uses 256 tokens, everything past that is dropped silently, and extending the window is not the fix.

Tagged: rag

Local Embeddings for Microsoft.Extensions.AI, no Ollama

Reranking in C# with a Cross-Encoder

RAG in C# without a Vector Database

The 256-token limit in all-MiniLM-L6-v2