What a misfortune, although you are made
for fine and great works
this unjust fate of yours always
denies you encouragement and success;
that base customs should block you;
and pettiness and indifference.
And how terrible the day when you yield
(the day when you give up and yield),
and you leave on …
Grahame Sydney’s book The Art of Grahame Sydney has been on the coffee table the last couple of months. …
No analogies, no metaphors. This model is based off the excellent paper Defining, Measuring, and Managing Technical Debt by Ciera Jaspan and Collin Green. The findings come from the Engineering Productivity Research Team at Google based on five years of company-wide engineer surveys. This post is …
August 2024 Update: Now a solved problem. Use Structured Outputs.
Large language models (LLMs) return unstructured output. When we prompt them they respond with one large string. This is fine for applications such as ChatGPT, but in others where we want the LLM to return structured data such as …
You’re in a new city for a weekend and take a bunch of photographs. When you get home you review your shots and delete some of them. The Keeper Rate is the ratio of shots you keep versus those you throw away. It’s a concept, not a literal metric.
I’ve got a camera on my phone, a …