This week, I learned:
- Modal.com seems of offer reasonably priced GPUs
- Combining vector search and keyword search with reciprocal rank fusion seems to work well for RAG. Ref
- Knowledge Project podcast. Morgan Housel
- Differences of opinion exist because of different stories arising from origins and experiences. We are not debating facts. We are debating life lessons!
- Solution: hear their anecdotes. The stories that taught them their lessons.
- AI reporting templates are a trend. Domain expertise comes in via structuring the report template and associated prompts.
- Some audio embedding models: unoti/voice-embeddings, retkowsky/audio_embeddings, pyannote/embedding (for speaker similarity), and more.
- Hidden Brain podcast: Innovation 2.0: The power of less
- Subtraction is hard because we are biologically and economically wired against it. It’s also hard because there are fewer markers of subtraction. Additions are natural markers / triggers.
- Marie Kondo suggests keeping only what sparks joy
- #POST I tried Undermind.ai - an agent that researches for you. It guides you to ask a detailed question, spends 2-3 minutes finding the answer, and provides detailed results. But it’s worth the wait. It’s a good alternative to quick validations on SciSpace.
- For popular results, search actually makes results worse! When not to trust language models
- Perception of fluency and usefulness are NEGATIVELY correlated in LLM! Evaluating Verifiability in Generative Search Engines
- GPTs are now available to non paying users. Apparently for a few weeks! Everyone also has limited access to GPT-4o.
- Discussion with Anand
- Explore BBC Microbit
- Everyone should get a Raspberry Pi!
- Watch 2 minutes paper on YouTube
- More LLM routers:
- d-id and Heygen can modify videos of a person.