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Taming randomness in ML models with hypothesis testing and marimo

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Re: Taming randomness in ML models with hypothesis testing and marimo

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- Brand new burner account

- upset about “AI slop” (the image is clearly not AI)

- mentions tech buzzwords that annoy you

- claiming the article is not as rigorous as an academic paper

Perhaps I’m just old school. But I miss the HN where the best way to get upvotes was to be insightful and not to send low-effort snarky replies

Re: Taming randomness in ML models with hypothesis testing and marimo

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Good post. I’ve been thinking about doing offline testing of LLM tasks a bit these days and have come to the conclusion that old school testing is the best until more mature features can be developed. Specifically, I mean running a power analysis to determine sample size, random sampling based on that and then running tests like a z test to see if there is a difference and between what bounds. Tests are expensive and I wish there was a better way for realizable offline evals.

Re: Taming randomness in ML models with hypothesis testing and marimo

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post #8

Good post. I’ve been thinking about doing offline testing of LLM tasks a bit these days and have come to the conclusion that old school testing is the best until more mature features can be developed. Specifically, I mean running a power analysis to determine sample size, random sampling based on that and then running tests like a z test to see if there is a difference and between what bounds. Tests are expensive and…

Have you seen LLM testing tools like promptfoo?

Re: Taming randomness in ML models with hypothesis testing and marimo

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post #8

Good post. I’ve been thinking about doing offline testing of LLM tasks a bit these days and have come to the conclusion that old school testing is the best until more mature features can be developed. Specifically, I mean running a power analysis to determine sample size, random sampling based on that and then running tests like a z test to see if there is a difference and between what bounds. Tests are expensive and…

Have you seen LLM testing tools like promptfoo?

Yes, I have seen it and BrainTrust too. Unfortunately, need FOSS without vendor at scale.