What Is Retrieval-Augmented Generation, aka RAG?
Editor’s note: This article, originally published on Nov. 15, 2023, has been updated. To understand the latest advancements in generative AI, imagine a courtroom. Judges hear and decide cases based on their general understanding of the law. Sometimes a case — like a malpractice suit or a labor dispute — requires special expertise, so judges send court clerks to a law library, looking for precedents and specific cases they can cite. Like a good judge, large language models […]
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WW-PGD: Projected Gradient Descent optimizer
Announcing: 𝗪𝗪-𝗣𝗚𝗗 — 𝗪𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁 I just released WW-PGD, a small PyTorch add-on that wraps standard optimizers (SGD, Adam, AdamW, etc.) and applies an epoch-boundary spectral projection using WeightWatcher diagnostics. Elevator pitch: WW-PGD explicitly nudges each layer toward the Exact Renormalization Group (ERG) critical manifold during training. 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁 • HTSR critical condition: α ≈ 2 • SETOL ERG condition: trace-log(λ) over the spectral tail = 0 WW-PGD makes these explicit optimization targets, rather than […]
Bridging the Silence: How LEO Satellites and Edge AI Will Democratize Connectivity
Why on-device intelligence and low-orbit constellations are the only viable path to universal accessibility The post Bridging the Silence: How LEO Satellites and Edge AI Will Democratize Connectivity appeared first on Towards Data Science.
How to design LLMs that don’t need prompt engineering
Standard LLMs rely on prompt engineering to fix problems (hallucinations, poor response, missing information) that come from issues in the backend architecture. If the backend (corpus processing) is properly built from the ground up, it is possible to offer a full, comprehensive answer to a meaningful prompt, without the need for multiple prompts, rewording your query, having to go through a chat session, or prompt engineering. In this article, I explain how to do it, focusing on enterprise […]
EFF Stands With Tunisian Media Collective Nawaat
When the independent Tunisian online media collective Nawaat announced that the government had suspended its activities for one month, the news landed like a punch in the gut for anyone who remembers what the Arab uprisings promised: dignity, democracy, and a free press. But Tunisia’s October 31 suspension of Nawaat—delivered quietly, without formal notice, and justified under Decree-Law 2011-88—is not just a bureaucratic decision. It’s a warning shot aimed at the very idea of independent civic life. The […]
Most Replayed Moment: Confidence Can Be Taught! Use These Body Language Cues To Your Advantage!
Joe Navarro is a former FBI agent and one of the world’s leading experts in body language and nonverbal communication. In this Moment, Joe reveals the hidden signals behind body language and how to use nonverbal cues, such as posture and eye contact, to your advantage in business, relationships, and beyond. Listen to the full episode with Joe Navarro on The Diary of a CEO below: Spotify: https://g2ul0.app.link/01Qhc2kbPYb Apple: https://g2ul0.app.link/NwkCj5obPYb Watch the Episodes On YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/c/%20TheDiaryOfACEO/videos Joe Navarro: https://www.jnforensics.com/
Creating AI that matters
When it comes to artificial intelligence, MIT and IBM were there at the beginning: laying foundational work and creating some of the first programs — AI predecessors — and theorizing how machine “intelligence” might come to be. Today, collaborations like the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, which launched eight years ago, are continuing to deliver expertise for the promise of tomorrow’s AI technology. This is critical for industries and the labor force that stand to benefit, particularly in the […]
Why SNAP Reform Needs More Than Mass Recertification
USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins promises “structural changes to SNAP” after Thanksgiving, following her controversial mass recertification proposal. But Cato’s Romina Boccia and Tyler Turman argue in a new blog post that the real problem isn’t paperwork—it’s incentives. lead , States have zero financial stake in preventing fraud because Washington pays 100% of the benefits costs. Boccia and Turman explain why block-granting SNAP and shifting fiscal responsibility to states would actually strengthen program integrity. If you’d like to set up an interview […]