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Liu: XGBoost rankers will beat LLMs for large-scale tool selection
“Yeah, my money is on the rankers because you can do those so easily, right? You could just say, well, given the embeddings of my search query and the embeddings of the description, I can just train XGBoost and just make sure that I have very high, like, MRR, w…”
Jason Liu Apr 24, 2024 ▶ 19:54 High Agency Pydantic over VC Backed Frameworks — with Jason Liu of Instructor
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Liu: Data science skill sets will outvalue traditional machine learning engineering
“I think a lot more data science is going to come in versus machine learning engineering, because a lot of it now is just quantifying, like, what does the business actually want as an outcome, right?”
Jason Liu Apr 24, 2024 ▶ 1:01:10 High Agency Pydantic over VC Backed Frameworks — with Jason Liu of Instructor
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Liu: Prefect and Zapier are well-positioned to build AI workflow UIs
“I think, you know, people like Prefect and Zapier have a pretty good shot at doing a good job.”
Jason Liu Apr 24, 2024 ▶ 31:50 High Agency Pydantic over VC Backed Frameworks — with Jason Liu of Instructor
Assertion Supported
Liu: Stitch Fix used Transformer models for recommendations before GPT-3
“We actually were using Transformers at Stitch Fix, like, before the GPT-III model, so we were just using Transformers for recommendation systems.”
Jason Liu Apr 24, 2024 ▶ 1:42 High Agency Pydantic over VC Backed Frameworks — with Jason Liu of Instructor
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