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Generative AI isn't any longer a side experiment or productivity hack. With increased access to generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Copilot, and AI-native features embedded across the analytics tools and platforms in...
Spotify just shipped “Prompted Playlists” in beta. I built just a few playlists and discovered that the LLM behind the agent tries to meet your request, but fails since it doesn’t know enough but...
In Part 1 of this series, how Azure and AWS take fundamentally different approaches to machine learning project management and data storage.
Azure ML uses a workspace-centric structure with user-level role-based access control (RBAC),...
— that’s the ambitious title the authors selected for his or her paper introducing each YOLOv2 and YOLO9000. The title of the paper itself is “” , which was published back in December 2016. The...
on Real-World Problems is Hard
Reinforcement learning looks straightforward in controlled settings: well-defined states, dense rewards, stationary dynamics, unlimited simulation. Most benchmark results are produced under those assumptions.
Observations are partial and noisy, rewards...
and History of the Etch-a-Sketch Tablet
The Etch-a-Sketch tablet was one of the vital interesting toy creations of the late Nineteen Fifties. The Etch-a-Sketch is largely a tablet look-alike; the red frame has a...
decision matrices (MADM) are a useful methodology for comparing multiple alternatives and choosing the alternative that most closely fits your needs and budget. By evaluating a set of criteria for every option, you'll be...
A month ago, I built a full retrieval system with embeddings, hybrid search, and a GUI in about 25 hours. Last weekend, I spent two days attempting to fix a bug in it —...