Vinodh Kumar RavindranathAn elegant (yet simple) technique to improve RAG qualityI think a lot of work happening in most companies using LLM (i.e. gen AI aplication space) is predominantly using RAG — Retrieval…May 151May 151
Vinodh Kumar RavindranathThe art and importance of disagreeingThe other day, I was called anti-national on facebook by a “friend”.Nov 10, 2019Nov 10, 2019
Vinodh Kumar RavindranathinTowards Data ScienceThe Ingenious Idea of Shirley AlmonI think for folks from a economics background, probably the Shirley Almon distributed lag model model is common-place, but I must admit…Nov 1, 2019Nov 1, 2019
Vinodh Kumar RavindranathinTowards Data ScienceEstimating 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, 20192Oct 29, 20192
Vinodh Kumar RavindranathinTowards Data ScienceA Data Science Question in the times of Akbar and BirbalA famous Indian story, particularly popular among those who grew up in India, is the Akbar — Birbal tale, where the great Mughal emperor…Oct 2, 2019Oct 2, 2019
Vinodh Kumar RavindranathinTowards Data ScienceUnderstanding bias and varianceAnyone learning a data science 101 course is confronted with these terms bias and variance that define the accuracy of the machine…Sep 12, 20191Sep 12, 20191
Vinodh Kumar RavindranathHow 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, 2019Sep 9, 2019
Vinodh Kumar RavindranathOne Part WomanOne Part Woman is the English translation of the novel “MadhoruBagan(மாதொருபாகன்)” written in 2010. Readers might recall that this novel…May 5, 2019May 5, 2019
Vinodh Kumar RavindranathOf Cholera and k-meansLittle 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, 2019May 1, 2019
Vinodh Kumar RavindranathinTowards Data ScienceOf 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, 20191Apr 18, 20191