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Making LLMs Useful with Function Calls and Embeddings

Large Language Model AIs like Google’s Gemini and Open-AI’s GPT can be interesting to play around with even in a simple chatbot like Chat-GPT. But those chatbots largely waste their potential. Their understanding of natural language is impressive, but their “knowledge” is limited to what they were trained on. But […]

Are QBs Overrated? What the Data Says.

It’s almost Super Bowl Sunday, one of the most sacred holidays here in the United States. It’s the day of the championship game between the winners of the NFC and AFC, this year the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs. Yes, for those of you from outside of the US, […]

Goodbye 2024

Don’t let the door hit you in the way out. I don’t think I will miss this year too much. But there were some good things that happened. Ok, not much, but some good music came out. Here is last year’s playlist on Qobuz and on Spotify.

Something is in the sky

There is something weird going on the Eastern United States. Lots of people along the Atlantic coast have reported seeing weird things in the sky over the past few days. If this happened in the 20th century everyone would be saying they are UFOs. Today, they are assumed to be […]

On Polls and Margins of Error

On Polls and Margins of Error

Last week I posted a retrospective on swing state polls. However, I excluded Nevada and Arizona as both states still had a significant number of votes to count. Since then, both states have gotten to 99%, so I figured I could include them. I also decided I could probably go […]