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I experience worse IR performance adding title/headers to chunks. It really depends on the nature of the documents. The only successful RAG systems I see are ones specifically tune…

Sometimes though, they really are out to get you. And sometimes, they tell you they are really out to get you.

No thanks!

I dont get why anyone cheers shit like this. It just takes jobs away from more people. You will just get more homeless and drug addicted people. And more rich techies. And it will …

The only real problem with the plan is will just be take advantage of. People will get meaningless easy degrees just to get a green card. I guess it's tied to employment but im act…

semantic search doesn't really work. Looks nice in little POCs. With real world data it's sort of a mixed bag. Embeddings are just to general, and documents within a narrow domain …

this book is at the top of the list of near every list of best programming books of all time. its worth reading. is it an easy read? no. its sort of like the Illiad. Not an easy re…

well worth reading even for veteran senior engineers. worth re-reading every few years too.

He has an immortal soul, but it wont be in the cloud...

All I know is I feel amazing eating lots of leaner red meat. The nutrient content is very high (B-vitamins, zinc, etc.) and hard to get elsewhere. I probably eat 5 lbs of red meat …

lot of these "studies" have included "processed meats" not fresh meat...

you can also buy leaner cuts of meat. for example flank steak, etc. stuff that needs marinated or slow cooked, and has less fat. also grass fed steaks tend to have less fat (they a…

The Sky voice was obviously flirtatious sounding. It was actually very cringy and embarrassing for OpenAI, and it seemed really like a jump the shark moment TBH

They might not be my friends, but they did pay 90% of my salary for the past 22 years...

I remember a time when software programmers did NOT want to be referred to as "engineers" as that had more of a ops-guy connotation, like someone who sets up servers and runs cable…

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The SEO has ruined the internet. Now every recipe web site has 5000 words of narrative before the actual recipe (at least now they all have "jump to recipe" buttons). I really dont…

of course it is... they have run out of good ideas. just make Siri actually useful by backing it with an LLM with personal memory and you own the market.

Technology always has a weakening effect. AI copilots will make us lazier and produce more buggy code. It can increase productivity for certain boring tasks (generate a bunch of em…

Recent reads: Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck East of Eden by John Steinbeck Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro AntiFragile by Nassim Taleb (an…

Go long uranium and fossil fuels. There is no other way to generate enough electricity for these data centers, and also for this push for electric vehicles. The green energy stuff …

What is "more vectors"? How many are we talking about? We've been using pgvector in production for more than 1 year without any issues. We dont have a ton of vectors, less than 100…

Using Postgres with pgvector is trivial and cheap. Its also available on AWS RDS.

I want to build an app that shows historical news article headlines with the word "experts" in the title.

I agree openai models are by far the best, regardless of papers claiming otherwise according to some strange tests and metrics. We are also using pagemaker hosted open source model…