Ethan Steininger

Sep 15

“Cur Non?” — A Battlecry to Change the World

Act 1: France, The Yearning You’re in France, the 18th century. Young Lafayette, barely in his twenties, stands beside you, resolute and idealistic. “Why not?” he says, looking into the horizon. The Latin equivalent, “Cur Non,” would soon become his personal motto. As if in silent conversation with his own destiny, the words echo the…

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Aug 9

Top 5 Pitfalls in Machine Learning Implementation

In the rapidly evolving field of Machine Learning (ML), businesses are leveraging powerful algorithms to enhance productivity, decision-making, and innovation. However, implementing machine learning is not a straightforward task and comes with certain pitfalls. We’ll dive into the top five pitfalls that companies might face in ML implementation, along with…

Mlops

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Mlops

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Jul 18

Building a Vector Search Engine Using HNSW and Cosine Similarity

Hierarchical Navigable Small World graphs (HNSW) is an algorithm that allows for efficient nearest neighbor search, and the Sentence Transformers library allows for the generation of semantically meaningful sentence embeddings. We will be using the HNSWlib python library for our tutorial, which provides a fast and memory-efficient implementation of HNSW. But first why? …

Vector Search

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Vector Search

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Jul 14

The Growth Stack for Early-Stage Startups

Having the right tech infrastructure can dramatically expedite the process of early market validation, improving efficiency, productivity, and scalability. This article will delve into the importance of an early company/product growth stack, highlighting the various tools that can bolster a company’s growth trajectory. The Power of the Right Tech Stack Establishing a robust tech stack early on…

Startup

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Startup

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Jun 8

The Broken Jet Stream Behind NYC’s Smoke Invasion

Today, New York City was cloaked in a hazy shroud. The reason? Wildfires raging in Ontario, Canada. Usually, prevailing winds would carry the smoke eastwards over the Atlantic, but this isn’t the case now. The wind is blowing in a different direction, carrying the smoke southwards instead, resulting in the…

Climate Change

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The Broken Jet Stream Behind NYC’s Smoke Invasion

Climate Change

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May 10

MongoDB and Pinecone: Building Real-Time AI Applications

I’ve built dozens of applications where Mongo DB was the system of record, and that’s unlikely to change. Old habits die hard after all. However, as AI capabilities and vector search engines become more available, satisfying complicated use cases such as semantic search becomes easier. I’m going to walk you…

Mongodbpinecone

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MongoDB and Pinecone: Building Real-Time AI Applications

Mongodbpinecone

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May 3

Why Pursuing a BHAG is Worth the Struggle

Big Hairy Audacious Goal (BHAG) is a term coined by Jim Collins and Jerry Porras in their book “Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies.” A BHAG is a long-term, ambitious goal that can inspire people to work towards a common vision. It is a tangible, specific goal that…

Bhag

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Bhag

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Apr 13

So you want to become a unicorn

Learn to sell. Learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable. I’ve bet my career on this quote, and it’s more true than ever in the age of A.I. where software is democratized. A prevailing concern is that A.I. will upend the labor market, rendering large…

Artificial Intelligence

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Artificial Intelligence

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Mar 22

An Open-Source, Personalized Generative Model Framework

Custom, generative models are the future. Whether you’re crafting video montages and chatbots or producing audio summaries and image montages they all require the same data pipelines. Engineers need to prepare and process the source of truth, then fine-tune and deploy the generative models for their specific use cases. Note…

Generative Model

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Generative Model

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Mar 17

Teaching GPT-4 to write code from research papers

A new research paper came out on building reccomendation systems, authored by the ByteDance team: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2209.07663.pdf I’m no scientist but I love to understand the latest and greatest in research, which is a perfect task for GPT-4. Prepping the content Since GPT-4 has a token size limit, we first split the paper into…

Gpt 4

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Gpt 4

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