Simplicity is SOTA
Richard Demsyn-JonesMachine learning, engineering, and marketplaces
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On strategy, good and bad (mostly bad)
Good strategy is hard. I’m sure of that, but you don’t have to take it from me. Richard Rumelt makes that point repeatedly in his superb book, Good Strategy Bad Strategy. You’ve likely seen the consequences of leaders and companies who lack...
How LLMs are trained for function calling
Why should LLMs be any good at function calling, and what techniques have model builders used? Investigating this leads to surprisingly unsatisfactory answers: many model papers provide no details at all, or only the tiniest hints at their...
Agentic AI runs on tools
What is agentic AI? It’s hot, that’s what it is. We might be on an exponential growth curve of people attaching the “agentic” label to projects, systems, and products. Nevertheless, I do believe that the concept is useful and important once...
The stubborn persistence of online-offline inconsistency
If you build ML models for production use cases, such as real-time ranking, recommendations, content extraction, or spam filtering, then it’s quite likely that your implementation for real-time serving to users (“online”) differs in some su...
The Monty Hall problem: The golden goat variation
The Monty Hall problem never gets old. Here’s a recent variation of it which grabbed my interest last week. The earliest source I can find for it is this Tumblr post—Yes, Tumblr!—from January 5th, 2025.
Puzzle shared by sigmaleph on Tumblr...
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Writing about ML, engineering, and marketplaces. See demsynjones.com for more background on my interests. Thanks for reading!
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