AI

There is a lot of noise in AI right now. Every other LinkedIn post is someone claiming they 10xed their revenue with a chatbot, or a founder pitching their “AI-powered” startup that is basically a wrapper around an API call. And somewhere in between all of that, there are real, useful things happening that could genuinely help your business. The problem is that the useful stuff is buried under layers of jargon. RAG, fine-tuning, prompt engineering, embeddings - these words get thrown around like everyone is supposed to know what they mean. Most people don’t. And that’s fine. Nobody was born knowing what a vector database is. ...

What’s SGD All About? Picture this: you’re trying to teach a computer to recognize cat pics or recommend your next binge-worthy show. To do that, you need to tweak a bunch of numbers (aka model parameters) to make your predictions as spot-on as possible. That’s where Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) swoops in like a superhero. It’s a nifty algorithm that helps machine learning models learn by nudging those numbers in the right direction, bit by bit. Think of it as finding the lowest point in a foggy valley by taking small, semi-random steps. Let’s break it down, human-style! ...