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Currently working as an independent consultant. I use my expertise in recommendation systems to helps fast-growing startups build out their RAG applications. I am also the creator of Instructor, Flight, and an ML and data science educator.

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• 567 Advisors - 2023 - Present
• Creator of Instructor - 2023 - Present
• Sabbatical @ South Park Commons - 2023 - Present
• Staff Machine Learning Engineer @ Stitchfix — 2016, 2018-2023
• Prev, Meta, ActionIQ, NYU, Meltwater - 2013-2018
• Computational Mathematics and Statistics @ University of Waterloo

RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)

• Systematically Improving Your RAG
• Low Hanging Fruit for RAG Search
• Levels of Complexity: RAG Applications
• Predictions for the Future of RAG
• Inverted Thinking: RAG
• RAG is More Than Embeddings
• What is Prompt Optimization
• Data Flywheel
• 10 Ways to be Data Illiterate and How to Avoid Them

Career and Personal Development

• Advice to Young People
• Learning
• Consulting
• Losing My Hands

The links have been updated as requested. Is there anything else you'd like me to do with this content?

Talks and Podcasts¶

• Keynote: Pydantic is all you need
• Podcast: Latent Space
• Podcast: Building with AI
• Podcast: Dagshub
• Podcast: Talking Heads

blog's Issues

Sales.

Writing and how I do sales.

What is a data flywheel

What I believe about myself.

What is an MVP.

The benefit is the dream outcome. Not a list of features.

adapting from RSI.

writing about my current process with RSI and how I've adapted. Tools I use, keyboards, work practices, etc.

Flight link is broken

https://jxnl.github.io/flight is referenced in index.md which is a broken link

Public baths.

What does it mean to live?

I have to think of you.

Like air

How to pick your metrics

A looping system versus a planning system.

A planning system leaves artifacts that we can use to improve the plan.
A looping system is harder to finetuning

How to be vulnerable.

Question: Suggestions on stack for deployment of RAG system to users

hey! what stack do you recommend for quickly deploying a front end/website for a RAG system? Do you embed asyncio etc in your processes or do you hand off to another system

How I like to work

Expanse scope as much as possible, as quickly as possible by using a small looping internal model

Come over the policy to filter down recommendations

Ship at 80%

0,1
.8, .8

Fucking hate couches.

How I started consulting.

Writing python

I want to write python the way Musashi swings are sword the way John Mayer plays music.

Famously said you should swing a sword of if you have no arms

I definitely understand what that means now

Mayer said 10 years to be able to pick up a guitar and play guitar but to play music

Picasso said it took one year to like paint and paint like a child

Patriarchal self esteem.

RSS for the blog

Any interest in setting up RSS for your site? I'd quite like to subscribe, but seems like you don't have this enabled yet. https://guts.github.io/mkdocs-rss-plugin/ seems like it might be what you need?

I'd maybe make a PR for this feature if you'd consider it.

Burn out

My year at 1100 ng/dl