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Why You Need a Thinking Partner (like this Genius)
You may not have heard of him, but James Clerk Maxwell wrote down what we now think of as four […]
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A change of perspective is worth 80 IQ points
We’ve all done it–struggled over some problem until a frustrating end of the day. But after “sleeping on it” and […]
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Guidelines for composing a second brain…and a few surprising recommendations
You need a second brain to avoid information overload. But what goes into composing that system may not be what you think.
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Introduction to Semantic Search with Rockset: From Keyword to Vector Search
A nice article I helped the amazing Rockset team write. Unlike many other introductions to vector concepts, this one goes […]
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Generative AI is a Dirty Rotten Blatherskite
I’ve long appreciated the aphorism: Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first […]
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Generative AI and the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect
Author Michael Chrichton coined the Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect in a 2002 speech. Paraphrasing: ‘The effect is as follows. You […]
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Learning to Think
A bit more on my educational history. It made me imagine that I hated math. I took zero math-related classes […]
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Pandas Dataframe
Of the myriad ways of integrating your own data with generative AI, this demo is particularly nicely put together. Start […]
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SCRIBE prompting
Generative AI prompting 101. There’s a lot written about how to prompt AI, especially chatbots and text-to-image generators. But I […]
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How I built an AI workstation for $500
Buying a ready-made AI workstation will cost serious dough. For example, a single RTX 4090, as of this writing, is […]
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Stephen Wolfram’s emotional roller coaster
In this video, I learned some new things as well as some new ways of thinking about the LLM space. […]