Stories by softwaredoug

A fundamental conundrum of RAG chat apps

Confessions of a Former SVB Executive

Bringing Learning to Rank to Reddit Search: Goals and Training Data

The Huberman Husbands and Their Long-Suffering Wives

Amazon exec: it's time to 'disagree and commit' to office return despite no data

Hunting with wolves helped humans outsmart the Neanderthals (2015)

SearchArray: Making search relevance not so special

Show HN: SearchArray – Text Search in Pandas

Evaluating embedding based retrieval beyond historical search results [video]

Tao Te Ching – Gia-Fu Feng, Jane English Translation (1989)

Lexically-Accelerated Dense Retrieval

The real engine behind "AI" is the bad tech economy

Improve documentation by lowering the barrier to public blogging and speaking

Fighting Undead Documentation

Wall Street's Bankers Stayed Out of Jail (2015)

The tech CEOs see sw engs as entitled, mediocre performers.. they're kinda right

Rent growth is slowing (where housing got built)

U.S., 17 states sue Amazon alleging monopolistic practices led to higher prices

Understanding loss functions: Hinge loss

Only the final variable output from a cell should be global in Jupyter

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