+100

When I first learned about RAG, I couldn’t believe it was just “ “.join(docs)

It does feel like

RAG -> Variable Selection
CoT -> Boosting

sure there are others too…

It also - for me at least - takes the joy out of it. Science is a participatory discipline and “playing the game” makes “scoring the points” all the more enticing (especially for kids!)

I get mad about this once a week. Just terrible brand positioning

Wait, no he’s right

Oh no - didn’t mean to scoop any takes from the bad place 😅

The most impactful CRM personalization is

select user, song, count(*)
from plays
group by 1, 2
order by 3 desc

Always has been. Always will be.

Yeah something beautiful about a NYC bar on Saturday morning with first round coffees, second round are beers

It’s also a religious tradition at this point

One of my big ah-ha moments was “wait… the hidden layers are just doing feature engineering”.

😅😬

I regularly send marketers this picture which I feel like is the right level of passive-aggressive grump for this group

🎯🎯🎯

We really have known the ramifications of RecSys tech (especially in news) all along. It's just that consumers and companies wanted it more than a non-personalized alternative.

What we want vs what is good for us can oftentimes be two different things.

Quote was from 30 years ago...

With GroupLens, users may choose to read articles only from a small group with whom they share many common interests. Over time this could lead to a fracture of the global village into many small tribes, each forming a ... community ... isolated from each other.

Forget ggplot vs base R graphics. Bring back terminal renderings and clip art.