This week, I learned:

  • Amara’s law: “We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.”
  • LLM Patterns include Evals, RAG, Fine-tuning, Caching, Guardrails, Defensive UX, Collect feedback. Notably:
    • Defensive UX: Microsoft, Google, and Apple have guidelines for Human-AI interactions
    • Collect feedback: Explicit and implicit
  • Rouge and Context Precision are metrics to evaluate LLM responses that serve as a starting point – but not sufficient, usually
  • Any word with the letters izehsglbo can be spelt on a calculator. That includes Hobbes (538804)! Via Calculator spelling
  • Tor Browser + DuckDuckGo is good for torrent searches. Maybe the Dark Web IS the original Internet. The ad-free hacker web