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Recently we launched sub-issues, a feature designed to tackle complex issue management scenarios. This blog post delves into the journey of building sub-issues, what we learned along the way, how we implemented sub-issues, and the benefits of being able to use sub-issues to build itself. What are sub-issues? Sub-issues are a way to break a […]
– A couple of years ago, Mr. Money Mustache lost some credibility among the faithful when he wrote this blog post about actually trying to spend a bit more money, while buying a Tesla as the first step in that program. “Look at me!”, I thought to myself at the time, “I’m such an enlightened […]
April 11, 2025 Ryan chats with Amr Awadallah, founder and CEO of GenAI platform Vectara about how retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has advanced, why fact-checking and accurate data are essential in building AI applications, and how Vectara’s Mockingbird model seeks to minimize hallucinations. Credit: Alexandra Francis Vectara is a platform-as-a-service that allows users to build AI […]
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This article is one of two Distill publications about graph neural networks. Take a look at Understanding Convolutions on Graphs to understand how convolutions over images generalize naturally to convolutions over graphs. Graphs are all around us; real world objects are often defined in terms of their connections to other things. A set of objects, […]
People love to point out that the US has higher stock valuations but a larger high growth tech sector…does that matter? Via Goldman: The entire100+ page report we profiled on The Idea Farm is excellent…a few more charts at the end from Norbert at Taunus… […]
LLM pricing calculator (updated). I updated my LLM pricing calculator this morning (Claude transcript) to show the prices of various hosted models in a sorted table, defaulting to lowest price first. Amazon Nova and Google Gemini continue to dominate the lower end of the table. The most expensive models currently are still OpenAI’s o1-Pro ($150/$600 […]
Ladies and gentlemen, this is the final post I will be publishing at The Reformed Broker. After today the site will be inactive, forever. I began this blog in November 2008 without any idea where it would take me. I had a negative net worth, was working at a dead-end brokerage firm job and absolutely […]
The season 7 episode, titled “Plaything,” is an homage to—or possibly a horror story retelling of—Brooker’s time as a video game journalist in the 1990s. Brooker wrote for a games magazine called PC Zone, which plays a role in the show, and once had to review a life sim game called Creatures. ”That’s as autobiographical […]
– And by lately, I mean the past several years or more. The value of the S&P 500 index of stocks, where most of us hopefully have a good chunk of our retirement savings stashed into index funds, is up about fifty seven percent in just the past two years. And it has more than […]
