Today’s post was inspired by another whimsical idea of ours — REAL TIME Transcription! To be honest, the first time we discussed this project, we weren’t entirely sure of its practical applications. (You might chuckle and say, “Hey! You guys are like those stereotypical technical founders — holding a hammer…

Today’s post is inspired by the amazing performance of DeepSeek’s latest code language models — the DeepSeek Coder. It is the best open-source code Language Model (LLM) out there in the market today. As shown below, the DeepSeek-Coder-Base-33B model significantly outperforms one of the leading open-source models, CodeLlama, across various…

Today’s post is inspired by a whimsical idea of turning spontaneous thoughts from recording into tweets, whether you’re on the road or busy with household chores. It’s interesting to note that Twitter doesn’t have this feature yet. While they offer a voice recording and playback feature, it seems to be…

YCombinator just wrapped up its W2024 application round. If you’ve applied, how did it go? 🤓 While many startup founders turn to accelerators for product-market fit and initial capital, there’s an alternative for those still exploring the right idea or assembling a team — Venture Studios. Unlike traditional funding models…

Today’s post is sparked by our recent chat with friends who want to “get a taste of” applications using large language models. In fact, a bit of an “existential crisis” prompted by this tweet🫣: https://x.com/_AngelinaYang_/status/1722681864597762098?s=20 If you are like me, coming from a background in statistics, maths or economics, perhaps…

You recently joined a unicorn startup. You checked news and the their funding status on Crunchbase. You checked reviews on Appstore, Glassdoor, Blind and Layoffs.fyi. You even reached out to a few folks who recently left the company on Linkedin! Everything seems to be good: culture, growth, runway… You have…

Questions about imposter syndrome are extremely common. Whether you are a recent graduate searching for a job, a new member of a team trying to fit in, or an experienced professional dealing with workplace conflicts, the truth is, Imposter syndrome affects us all. As a therapist once said, “I don’t…

Today, we are very excited to announce the release of our new book “A Practical Approach to Retrieval Augmented Generation Systems”! Why did we do this? Short answer: Thriving community and passion from the makers! Longer answer: Do you know that bootstrapping Indie Hackers like PDF.AI is generating $30k MRR? We noticed that there are…

A few weeks ago, we explored the issue of outliers in the context of designing your A/B test and provided potential solutions, such as trimming outliers. Let’s recap: Why does this matter? The stakes of your experiment are high. For instance, A mere 0.1% increase to revenue at Facebook is…