Free course on Weights and Biases
I just released a free course on weights and biases. Check it out at wandb.courses its free and open to everyone and just under an hour long!
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I just released a free course on weights and biases. Check it out at wandb.courses its free and open to everyone and just under an hour long!
Click the image to access the course
How can I help? Do you know anyone that could use my help? Do you know anyone that could use my services?
These are all examples of exceptionally low agency questions. Not only is it difficult to answer the question, you subject your victim to a lot of additional work and thinking in their busy day.
It's like seeing your mom sweating away busy cooking, chopping vegetables and asking "How can I help?" It's a lot of work to manage you, and it's a lot of work to think about what you can do. Now she has to consider what's in your ability, what the unfinished work is, and prioritize that versus the other.
This post is my simple framework on how I ask.
I work with a few seed series a startups that are ramping out their retrieval augmented generation systems. I've noticed a lot of unclear thinking around what metrics to use and when to use them. I've seen a lot of people use "LGTM@Few" as a metric, and I think it's a terrible idea. I'm going to explain why and what you should use instead.
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When giving advice to developers on improving their retrieval augmented generation, I usually say two things:
Wise men speak in paradoxes because we are afraid of half-truths. This blog post will try to capture when to look at data and when to stop looking at data in the context of retrieval augmented generation.
I'll cover the different relevancy and ranking metrics, some stories to help you understand them, their trade-offs, and some general advice on how to think.
I'm not a doctor, but I did manage to double my testosterone levels in a year. I'm going to talk about what I did, what I learned, and what I think about it:
Fragments
If you think this writing style is strange, this is because much of this writing is actually a collected batch of voice memos transcribed into an essay using betterdictation.com's distilled whisper model. There will likely contain errors, as there are pieces and fragments of some of the thoughts I have on the topic. I welcome all most all edits and comments.
I specify indie consulting as something that is completely and wholly separate from the big-time consulting we hear about from those ridiculous institutions. Check out this video roasting McKinsey From John Oliver to understand how I feel about many of these folks. Theres another great video that I saw on tiktok.
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Here are some fragmented reasons as to why I don't like having a couch.
The couch, often positioned facing a television, symbolizes the societal imposition of a predetermined essence onto our living spaces. This arrangement, reminiscent of Sartre's concept of bad faith, dictates the room's function and restricts its potential. It mirrors the limitations we place upon ourselves when we conform to societal expectations, disregarding our authentic selves.
For real.
This writing stems from my experience advising a few startups, particularly smaller ones with plenty of junior software engineers trying to transition into machine learning and related fields. From this work, I've noticed three topics that I want to address. My aim is that, by the end of this article, these younger developers will be equipped with key questions they can ask themselves to improve their ability to make decisions under uncertainty.
Going to American baths is just so weird. I spent my summer in Japan visiting different onsens, and it was both a natural and spiritual experience. Before entering the water, everyone would bathe in the front, and kids would learn from their dads how to bathe. I would often sit on the edges of cliffs, gazing at the water or the sunrise, and it felt like we were monkeys, freely splashing about in nature.
In contrast, the time I spent in LA or New York City at various bathhouses was different. No one looked like an animal; instead, everyone seemed focused on optimization. People barely bathed before entering the water, wearing their dirty little speedos and swim trunks that they had definitely peed in the month before.
Gross.
The last two posts were hard to write, so this one is easy, but it gets my words in for the day. This is the equivalent of not wanting to miss a gym day and just walking the elliptical for 25 minutes better than nothing.
The goal of this post is basically to share what I have learned about writing a tweet, how to think about writing a hook, and a few comments on how the body and the cta needs to retain and reward the user. Its not much, I've only been on twitter for about 6 month.
This entire piece of writing is dedicated to a recent response on Hacker News. I hope you can see, as a member of reality, that I write this sincerely.
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Also, I wrote this as a speech-to-text conversion. As I mentioned in my advice post about writing more, my measure for writing more is simply putting more words on a page. If you're wondering how I can be so vulnerable, it's the same as what I mentioned about confidence. If you think this comment hurt me remember that you're just a mirror.
I've also learned that writing is a exorcism of your own thoughts. The more I write, the less these thoughts stick around in my head.