PinnedBuilding Retrieval-Augmented Generation SystemsA collection of articles for developing production-ready RAG applicationsApr 2, 20241Apr 2, 20241
PinnedPublished inTDS ArchiveThe Kaggle Blueprints: Unlocking Winning Approaches to Data Science CompetitionsAn article series analyzing Kaggle competitions’ winning solutions for lessons we can apply to our own data science projectsMar 1, 20236Mar 1, 20236
Published inTDS Archive2024 in Review: What I Got Right, Where I Was Wrong, and Bolder Predictions for 2025What I got right (and wrong) about trends in 2024 and daring to make bolder predictions for the year aheadDec 17, 2024Dec 17, 2024
Published inTDS ArchiveThe Challenges of Retrieving and Evaluating Relevant Context for RAGA case study with a grade 1 text understanding exercise for how to measure context relevance in your retrieval-augmented generation system…Jun 10, 20243Jun 10, 20243
Published inTDS ArchiveShifting Tides: The Competitive Edge of Open Source LLMs over Closed Source LLMsWhy I think smaller open source foundation models have already begun replacing proprietary models by providers, such as OpenAI, in…Apr 29, 20241Apr 29, 20241
Published inTDS ArchiveIntro to DSPy: Goodbye Prompting, Hello Programming!How the DSPy framework solves the fragility problem in LLM-based applications by replacing prompting with programming and compilingFeb 27, 202414Feb 27, 202414
Published inTDS ArchiveAdvanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation: From Theory to LlamaIndex ImplementationHow to address limitations of naive RAG pipelines by implementing targeted advanced RAG techniques in PythonFeb 19, 202413Feb 19, 202413
Published inTDS Archive2023 in Review: Recapping the Post-ChatGPT Era and What to Expect for 2024How the LLMOps landscape has evolved and why we haven’t seen many Generative AI applications in the wild yet — but maybe in 2024.Dec 18, 20236Dec 18, 20236
Published inTDS ArchiveEvaluating RAG Applications with RAGAsA framework with metrics and LLM-generated data to evaluate the performance of your Retrieval-Augmented Generation pipelineDec 13, 20239Dec 13, 20239
Published inTDS ArchiveA Guide on 12 Tuning Strategies for Production-Ready RAG ApplicationsHow to improve the performance of your Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline with these “hyperparameters” and tuning strategiesDec 6, 202316Dec 6, 202316
