Tag: howto

All the articles with the tag "howto".

• A Forecasting Ensemble That Actually Ships

  19 Sep, 2023

  A demand-forecasting ensemble (a classical statistical model, a sequence model, and gradient boosting) that took accuracy far enough to cut inventory hard, plus the boring data problems that mattered more than the model.

• Llama 2 Is Here. Should You Self-Host?

  15 Aug, 2023

  The week Llama 2 dropped, half my inbox asked whether to pull inference in-house. The break-even math, the GPU scarcity, and the on-call tax nobody puts in the spreadsheet.

• pgvector vs the Vector DB Gold Rush

  9 May, 2023

  Most teams adding semantic search this year should start in the Postgres they already run, not a new vector database. Where pgvector holds, where it doesn't, and how to tell which side of the line you are on.

• Your Recommendation Engine Doesn't Need Deep Learning (Yet)

  21 Mar, 2023

  Collaborative filtering and plain co-occurrence carried a marketplace recommender to hundreds of millions of recs a day. The exact point where deep ranking earned its complexity, and why most teams reach for it a year early.