Mitigating LLM Hallucinations: a multifaceted approach
Introduction What we talk about when we talk about Hallucinations How to Measure Mitigating Hallucinations: a multifacted approach Produc...
Introduction What we talk about when we talk about Hallucinations How to Measure Mitigating Hallucinations: a multifacted approach Produc...
In this post I summarize the main advances in the area of LLM models, and particularly open source LLMs (including Falcon, LlaMa2, and Free Willy). I describ...
DALL-E 2: An old professor with a notebook in his hand talking to a futuristic looking robot. 4k. Professional photo. Photorealistic
Introduction to recommender systems: Basics and classic techniques Beyond the basics Ranking Factorization machines Explore/explo...
A few weeks back I shared my thoughts on how things were going to evolve in the race to build better/larger/smarter generative AI models, and particularly LL...
Ten years ago, we published a post in the Netflix tech blog explaining our three-tier architectural approach to building recommender systems (see below). A l...
I have always loved reading. For the past 3 years I have also gotten into audiobooks, which has increased my book consumption dramatically. I listen to many...
“We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.” - Amara’s law
(Read my cofounder Neal Khosla’s version in Curai’s blog )
I have not written about my running/sports feats in a while. On the one hand I don’t think I have anything more interesting to say than what I said in my 10 ...
In case you are reading this post in my now Medium mirror, you can access the result of this migration here.
A few weeks back, Netflix announced that they were adding a two thumbs up option to give feedback on their content. At the same time I was being asked on Twi...
It has been over 10 years since the Netflix Prize finished, and I was not expecting to write a blog post about it at this point. However, just in the past co...
In case you are not familiar with it, the Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) is a federal agency of the Department of Health and Human Services. that is res...
You have probably heard of the butterfly effect: a distant butterfly flapping its wings can have a hard-to-predict effect on a future event. Everything seems...
Curai’s mission is to “provide the world’s best healthcare to everyone”. In order to do so, we strive to scale the reach of an individual physician by creati...
I recently had a candidate I was interviewing to ask about my leadership style. I gave a short answer, but I was left thinking that I would have liked to con...
It has become somewhat of a tradition for me to do an end-of-year retrospective of advances in AI/ML (see last year’s round up for example), so here we go ag...
There is a long history of debate about how much of human knowledge is innate and how much is learned from experience/data. This is also known as the nature ...
It has become a sort of tradition for me to try to summarize ML advances at this time of the year (see here for my Quora answer last year, for example). As a...
Some days back I was having a conversation about the importance of memos and documents in an agile/fast-moving startup company. The person I was talking with...
I haven’t updated this channel in a while. I hope that by now you have already found out elsewhere that about a year ago I co-founded a company in the AI/Hea...
You have probably heard a lot about Deep Learning and how it is taking over the world in general, and the area of Machine Learning in particular. But, does t...
Ad blockers might be good for the individual consumers that are using it, short term. However, longer term, if successful, ad blockers will shape the Interne...
This is a great question. As a TLDR; the way to deal with strong differences between engineers is not necessarily to build consensus but to have a clear owne...
There have recently been some articles (e.g. This list of influencers) that have pointed to this blog and lamented that I don’t update it regularly anymore. ...
This is not an easy question because there is no common agreement on what “Data Mining” means. But, I am going to say that I disagree with the answer from Wi...
In my previous post, I introduced the ten new lessons and described the first five. Let’s directly dive into the final 5.
Over a year ago, following an original presentation at MLConf, I wrote a blog post entitled “10 Lessons Learned from building ML systems”. At that point, I w...
2015 has been a great year for me in many ways, but running has been particularly good. This year I ran 2000 miles (3200 km), compared to the 1850 last year....
(This is a blogpost version of a talk I gave at MLConf SF 11/14/2014. See below for original video and slides)
A couple of weeks ago, I gave a 4 hour lecture on Recommender Systems at the 2014 Machine Learning Summer School at CMU. The school was organized by Alex Smo...
I have recently heard complaints that this blog is rather quiet lately. I agree. I have definitely been focused on publishing through other sources and have ...
As I have explained in other publications such as the Netflix Techblog, ranking is a very important part of a Recommender System. Although the Netflix Prize ...
A couple of days ago, I attended the Analytics @Webscale workshop at Facebook. I found this workshop to be very interesting from a technical perspective. Thi...
(Sorry for allowing myself to depart from the usual geeky computer science algorithmic talk in this blog. I owed it to myself and my biggest hobby to write a...
After a great week in beautiful and sunny Dublin (yes, sunny), it is time to look back and recap on the most interesting things that happened in the 2012 Rec...
We are just a few days away from the 2012 ACM Recommender Systems Conference (#Recsys2012), that this year will take place in Dublin, Ireland. Over the years...
The discussion of whether it is better to focus on building better algorithms or getting more data is by no means new. But, it is really catching on lately. ...
Last week, I published a post on the Netflix tech blog. The post, entitled “Netflix Recommendations: Beyond the 5 stars” describes how recommendations have e...
I found Recsys this year of very high quality in general. There were many good papers and presentations. The Industry track was also very high-quality, with...
In the traditional formulation of the “Recommender Problem”, we have pairs of items and users and user feedback values for very few of those dyads. The probl...
Three weeks ago, I started to work for Netflix. Everything has moved so fast with so many things to do and learn that it seems like I have already been here ...
Last week, Denis Parra presented our paper entitled “Walk the Talk: Analyzing the Relation between Implicit and Explicit Feedback for Preference Elicitation”...
A few days back, there was an interesting post by Judy Robertson in the Communications of the ACM blog. The post, entitled “Stats: We’re doing it wrong“, bui...
That was the main title of a series of talks I gave in different labs and companies during my recent California tour. In this presentation, I talked about ma...
I have discussed previously on this blog about how well the Scientific Method adapts to Agile approaches. These ideas also took me to an unfinished effort to...
If you are reading this blog I am pretty sure that you know quite a lot about Quora by now. If not, you should sign on and try it a bit before you continue r...
I don’t consider myself to be a great presenter. As a matter of fact, every time I finish a presentation, I find myself thinking about how many things I scre...