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Multi-Attribute Decision Matrices, Done Right

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...

The Unbearable Lightness of Coding

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 —...

Randomization Works in Experiments, Even Without Balance

of treatments in experiments has the amazing tendency to balance out confounders and other covariates across testing groups. This tendency provides a variety of favorable features for analyzing the outcomes of experiments and...

Machine Learning in Production? What This Really Means

, whether you’re a manager, an information scientist, an engineer, or a product owner, you’ve almost definitely been in no less than one meeting where the discussion revolved around “putting a model in production.” But...

Data Science as Engineering: Foundations, Education, and Skilled Identity

is having an identity crisis. Indications of this crisis have been around for years. As an example, the inaugural issue of found it easier to define what data science is just not reasonably than...

How Convolutional Neural Networks Learn Musical Similarity

audio embeddings for music advice? Streaming platforms (Spotify, Apple Music, etc.) must have the power to recommend recent songs to their users. The higher the recommendations, the higher the listening experience. There are various ways...

SAM 3 vs. Specialist Models — A Performance Benchmark

Segment Anything Model 3 (SAM3) sent a shockwave through the pc vision community. Social media feeds were rightfully flooded with praise for its performance. SAM3 isn’t just an incremental update; it introduces Promptable...

Why the Sophistication of Your Prompt Correlates Almost Perfectly with the Sophistication of the Response, as Research by Anthropic Found

, the thought has circulated within the AI field that prompt engineering is dead, or not less than obsolete. This, on one side because pure language models have turn out to be more flexible...

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