An ode to the Marathon

In the period of the generative AI boom, everything is happening all at once. Every day a new model comes out, every week a billion dollar company teases a great new advancement. More often than not, they'll show us some fancy version of this: We all love a misterious chart …

Some context Our data: A controversial dataset A stupid simple vector store Plain RAG Complicating things: Hybrid Search What if we ask for a summary? Detecting representative questions Answering questions that require the entire dataset in context Expanding user queries The most important Lesson Resources to go beyond the basics …

For the past year, this website's podcast companion has been running on a text-to-speech model called XTTS-v2. It's not horrible. And those who have heard my voice before might notice some similarities. But it's far from a pleasant listenning experience. But the world of text-to-speech (TTS) has been gradually moving …

For the past years Vitto and I have used Tricount to track our shared expenses. The app is actually pretty good, but there’s one small thing that annoys me quite a bit. Even though we spoke English to each other for the first month, we’ve since spoken a …