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Why reliable AI requires a paradigm shift
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How to Train your Chatbot
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Chat with your PDF
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The Science of Computation
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Building a Perplexity AI clone
Combining RAG with Google Search to build a bot that knows about everything.
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You and AI: the social side of artificial intelligence
Why AI-humans relationships are now a crucial topic
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Riccardo Vocca
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What is Retrieval Augmented Generation?
The simplest and most effective way to make a large language model more accurate, knowledgeable, and robust in practical, domain-specific applications.
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The Mostly Harmless Library
You one-stop shop for all my educational content.
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Deciphering Turing: Reflections on a Legacy of Iconoclastic Originality
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Building a Perplexity AI clone
Combining RAG with Google Search to build a bot that knows about everything.
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
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You and AI: the social side of artificial intelligence
Why AI-humans relationships are now a crucial topic
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
 and 
Riccardo Vocca
7
Deciphering Turing: Reflections on a Legacy of Iconoclastic Originality
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Nick Potkalitsky
9
How to Train your Chatbot - The PDF Bot
The second lesson in our journey to master LLMs.
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
Let's build our own ChatGPT
Build your own chat with an LLM application in just 56 lines of code and 15 minutes.
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
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But what is Artificial Intelligence anyway?
The no-BS introduction to the field of Artificial Intelligence you didn't know you wanted.
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
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The Techno-Pragmatist Manifesto
A level-headed response to techno-pessimists and techno-optimists.
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
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The Three Minds of a Computer Scientist
The Scientist, the Engineer, and the Hacker.
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
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Everyone can (and should) write online
Yes, you too. And no, this isn't an ad for any new writing course.
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Only people matter
A somewhat sentimental essay on why we do the things we do.
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The Competitive Mindset in CS Education
A look at the pros and cons of incentivizing a competitive mindset in Computer Science students.
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
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Alberto Gonzalez Rosales
Why are LLMs so versatile?
Wait? Isn't this just autocomplete on steroids? Well, it is, but that is missing the whole point. Here's how LLMs really work.
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
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How to Train your Chatbot - The PDF Bot
The second lesson in our journey to master LLMs.
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
A lower bound on sorting
Why we can't have faster sorting algorithms
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The most important lesson in Machine Learning
Most applied machine learning research looks beautiful in the paper, but fails spectacularly in real-life. They all fall prey to the same mistake: the…
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How to Train your Chatbot - Update #1
The first application is here!
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Graphs and their drawings
Where graph theory and geometry meet, beauty and challenge arise
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