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One might encounter various frustrating difficulties when attempting to numerically solve a difficult nonlinear and nonconvex optimal control problem. In this text I'll consider such a difficult problem, that of finding the shortest path...

I TabPFN through the ICLR 2023 paper — . The paper introduced TabPFN, an open-source transformer model built specifically for tabular datasets, an area that has not likely benefited from deep learning and...

I used to be working on a script the opposite day, and it was driving me nuts. It worked, sure, however it was just… slow. Really slow. I had that feeling that this...

often use Mean Reciprocal Rank (MRR) and Mean Average Precision (MAP) to evaluate the standard of their rankings. On this post, we are going to discuss why (MAP) and (MRR) poorly aligned with modern user behavior in...

Introduction customer annoyance from wait times. Calls arrive randomly, so wait time X follows an Exponential distribution—most waits are short, just a few are painfully long. Now I’d argue that annoyance isn’t linear: a 10-minute...

be a sensitive topic. Perhaps best avoided on first encounter with a Statistician. The disposition toward the subject has led to a tacit agreement that α = 0.05 is the gold standard—in fact,...

“What I cannot create, I don't understand” — attributed to R. Feynman After Vibe Coding, we appear to have entered the (very area of interest, but much cooler) era of Vibe Proving: DeepMind wins gold...

to Constructing an Overengineered Retrieval System. That one was about constructing the whole system. This one is about doing the evals for it. Within the previous article, I went through different parts of a RAG...