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Survey: Machine Learning Projects Still Routinely Fail to Deploy
 Originally published in KDnuggets. Eric Siegel highlights the chronic...
Three Best Practices for Unilever’s Global Analytics Initiatives
    This article from Morgan Vawter, Global Vice...
Getting Machine Learning Projects from Idea to Execution
 Originally published in Harvard Business Review Machine learning might...
Eric Siegel on Bloomberg Businessweek
  Listen to Eric Siegel, former Columbia University Professor,...

Large Language Models

Google DeepMind Used A Large Language Model to Solve An Unsolved Math Problem

 Originally published in MIT Technology Review, Dec 14, 2023. Google DeepMind has used a large language model to crack a famous unsolved problem in pure mathematics. In a paper published in Nature today, the researchers say it is the first time a large language model has been used to discover a solution to a long-standing scientific

How To Make History With LLMs & Other Generative Models

 Originally published in Leigh Marie’s Newsletter, Sept 21, 2023.   Or, I’m getting tired of market maps and am ready for some hotter takes. It’s been well over a year since I published my overview of large language models,...

Medusa: Simple Framework for Accelerating LLM Generation with Multiple Decoding Heads

 Originally published in together.ai, Sept 11, 2023. Large Language Models (LLMs) have changed the world. However, generating text with them can be slow and expensive. While methods like speculative decoding have been proposed to accelerate the generation...

ChapGPT Doesn’t “Know” But It Can Tell

  Polanyi’s paradox, named in honor of the philosopher and polymath Michael Polanyi, states, “we know more than we can tell.” He means that most of our knowledge is tacit and cannot be easily formalized with...

The Biggest Bottleneck for Large Language Model Startups is UX

 Originally published in Innovation Endeavors, Nov 1, 2022.  Applied large language model startups have exploded in the past year. Enormous advances in underlying language modeling technology, coupled with the early success of products like Github CoPilot, have...

Productizing Large Language Models

 Originally posted on Replit.com, Sept 21, 2022.  Large Language Models (LLMs) are known for their near-magical ability to learn from very few examples — as little as zero — to create language wonders. LLMs can chat, write...