Nowadays, most people seem to over-engineer their RAG stack. They jump straight to embeddings, vector databases, and reranking pipelines. Meanwhile, their users just want to find the doc that says “How to reset my password.” In engineering, there’s always the … Read more
Exponential backoff with jitter is de rigeur for making service calls. This code, or something like it, probably looks really familiar: func do(ctx context.Context) error { const ( maxAttempts = 10 baseDelay = 1 * time.Second maxDelay = 60 * … Read more
The above is the title of a talk by computer scientist Cynthia Rudin. here’s the abstract: While the trend in machine learning has tended towards building more complicated (black box) models, such models are not as useful for high stakes … Read more
You may not realize it, but passwords are the single biggest threat to your online security – they’re easy to steal, they’re hard to remember, and managing them is tedious. Many people believe that a password should be as long … Read more