🔍 Language model Re-rankers: Not Always Smarter Than Simple Keyword Matching!

Happy to share new applied AI research results from our team at amass in collaboration with great partners at Chalmers, University of Gothenburg, LMU Munich, and MCML.

Link: arxiv.org/abs/2502.17036

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Basic async performance testing with FastAPI and Locust
I wrote a short, technical blog post comparing different approaches to implement async in Python FastAPI applications. The key takeaways is that sprinkling in async/await keywords improves throughput but...

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I spent a bit of time digging into the prompting going on behind the scenes in PydanticAI, a new AI agent framework for Python released last week. Here is what I found: www.alexanderjunge.net/blog/show-me...
Recommend doing the same for any LLM tools you are considering.