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An elegant (yet simple) technique to improve RAG quality

I think a lot of work happening in most companies using LLM (i.e. gen AI aplication space) is predominantly using RAG — Retrieval…

May 15

An elegant (yet simple) technique to improve RAG quality

May 15

Vinodh Kumar Ravindranath

The art and importance of disagreeing

The other day, I was called anti-national on facebook by a “friend”.

Nov 10, 2019

The art and importance of disagreeing

Nov 10, 2019

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Towards Data Science

The Ingenious Idea of Shirley Almon

I think for folks from a economics background, probably the Shirley Almon distributed lag model model is common-place, but I must admit…

Nov 1, 2019

The Ingenious Idea of Shirley Almon

Nov 1, 2019

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Towards Data Science

Estimating from small random samples— Understanding the underlying probabilities at play!

Suppose you are asked to prove how useful a feature could be. Lets say you have to estimate the number of users on your platform that…

Oct 29, 2019

Estimating from small random samples— Understanding the underlying probabilities at play!

Oct 29, 2019

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Towards Data Science

A Data Science Question in the times of Akbar and Birbal

A famous Indian story, particularly popular among those who grew up in India, is the Akbar — Birbal tale, where the great Mughal emperor…

Oct 2, 2019

A Data Science Question in the times of Akbar and Birbal

Oct 2, 2019

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Towards Data Science

Understanding bias and variance

Anyone learning a data science 101 course is confronted with these terms bias and variance that define the accuracy of the machine…

Sep 12, 2019

Understanding bias and variance

Sep 12, 2019

Vinodh Kumar Ravindranath

How to estimate the number of cars in a city?

I came across this question asked in context of product manager interviews, and the answers hovering around a series of guesstimates…

Sep 9, 2019

How to estimate the number of cars in a city?

Sep 9, 2019

Vinodh Kumar Ravindranath

One Part Woman

One Part Woman is the English translation of the novel “MadhoruBagan(மாதொருபாகன்)” written in 2010. Readers might recall that this novel…

May 5, 2019

One Part Woman

May 5, 2019

Vinodh Kumar Ravindranath

Of Cholera and k-means

Little did I imagine, when I was reading about Cholera in my son’s science textbook in the morning or while applying k-means clustering to…

May 1, 2019

Of Cholera and k-means

May 1, 2019

Vinodh Kumar Ravindranath
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Towards Data Science

Of Suppandi, Regularization and Lasso the feature selector!

Suffices to say that any Indian childhood is almost incomplete without a rendezvous with India’s evergreen comic hero Suppandi. Suppandi…

Apr 18, 2019

Of Suppandi, Regularization and Lasso the feature selector!

Apr 18, 2019

Vinodh Kumar Ravindranath

Vinodh Kumar Ravindranath

Data Scientist. Part-time social activist. Participant in Politics. Learner. AI@Eightfold.ai. Ex-Googler.

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