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Who will this data model serve? These are the stakeholders and users of the data model.

Why does this data model need to be built? What is the purpose and objective of the data model?

What are the data model’s core entities, attributes, and relationships? This is where you learn to see the business through the lens of data.

When is the timeframe for t... See more

So right now, LLMs (Large Language Models) are all the rage. But in the future, it’s possible that the way we get things done is composing things with a combination of LLMs, SMMs (Small, Mighty Models), agents and tools.

It’s what I call Cognitive Composition (because it sounds cool and I have a longtime love affair with alliteration).

This is how we... See more

Lateral reading is a strategy that enables people to emulate how professional fact checkers establish the credibility of online information. It involves opening up new browser tabs to search for information about the organisation or individual behind a site before diving into its contents. Only after consulting the open web do skilled searchers gau... See more

In a given construction project, there are often many stakeholders involved, especially in large projects:

Owners: They initiate construction projects, working with architects and engineers to design the project. They also hire a general contractor to operationally build the project.

General Contractors: They work for owners and are responsible for l... See more

𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦: it will improve your LLM performance on given use cases (e.g., coding, extracting text, etc.). Mainly, the LLM will specialize in a given task (a specialist will always beat a generalist in its domain)

𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘭: you can refine how your model should behave on specific inputs and outputs, resulting in a more robust produc... See more

The main thing Data Science forgot is that understanding the data and the goals for the data are essential. In doing so, they fundamentally forgot their roots when it comes to Operations Research and Statistics which have a fundamental rule each:

Operations Research - Answering the why before the what or how.

Statistics - Form a null hypothesis and t... See more

What’s the best way for an end user to organize and explore millions of latent space features?

I’ve found tens of thousands of interpretable features in my experiments, and frontier labs have demonstrated results with a thousand times more features in production-scale models. No doubt, as interpretability techniques advance, we’ll see feature maps t... See more

💰 PayPal is planning an ad network built off your purchase history LINK

PayPal plans to create an ad network using data from billions of customer transactions to target ads more effectively.

The new ad initiative, led by Mark Grether, aims to help businesses sell more by using PayPal's detailed knowledge of users' purchasing histories.

AI technology ... See more

Disruptive innovation comes in two flavors: (1) New-market disruption, where the company creates and claims a new segment in an existing market by catering to an underserved customer base, or (2) Low-end disruption, in which a company uses a low-cost business model to enter at the bottom of an existing market and claim a segment.

Copilots don’t crea... See more