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apwheele
1,887karma·374submissions·November 10, 2021
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Data scientist. Former academic in criminal justice field.
Personal blog at https://andrewpwheeler.com/
Consulting at https://crimede-coder.com/
Large Language Models for Mortals: A Practical Guide for Analysts (book), https://crimede-coder.com/blogposts/2026/LLMsForMortals
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This is another riff on not embedding a full document, but doing a summarization of the document and embedding the summary for RAG. Nice usecase for high cardinality data!
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I did not know about this when I wrote https://andrewpwheeler.com/2026/08/12/license-plate-reader-s... the day prior, but one of the things I did state was deleting dat…
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This is already the current status quo on paper. I bet the majority of the cases IJ identified of mis-use the PDs already had this policy. (That is the same standard when you do a background criminal …
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I cannot read this article, but this may be partly confused what this function by Carbyne does. If there is a flood of critical systems, it just plays an auto message "If this is about X, thank y…
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My money is on they used agentic AI coding tools to help set up all the metrics/experiments with traditional models.
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My experience like this was for a data scientist position at Facebook in 2022. So the question was something like, here is a table of predicted probabilities for credit card transactions (hypothetical…
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An app to verify citations in peer review journals, https://veruscite-data.com that is, to identify when papers have hallucinated references can see an example of results at https:/&…
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It is in alpha (hoping to do Show HN in a few weeks), but for those interested I am working on an application to do this, https://veruscite-data.com/ Most of the folks on HN will be m…
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So I agree with the general geist of this, a few counter-examples though: If you have the raw log-probs, I show how to use conformal inference to set false-positive or recall rates, https://…
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If you look at the raster image ChatGPT generated, that is fine. It is just this example (and other simple SVG icons I have asked for) result in pretty bad SVGs. It just makes me highly suspicious tha…
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So this is not my experience at all for asking about simple SVG icons for web-pages. Here is one of the examples I have tried for in the past, make a simple cartoon SVG knife for a map icon for a crim…
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Not an open source, but I discuss it in my book with examples for OpenAI/Anthropic/Gemini, https://crimede-coder.com/blogposts/2026/LLMsForMortals . All of the mode…
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Just as even a counterpoint to this, I have asked the LLMs to attempt to generate SVG icons for websites. Even though I have requested things much simpler than a Pelican, they have all tended to do …
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I think this is a good meta-lesson for Kaggle. When you have objective metrics to hill-climb towards, AI can do quite well. When you just phone it in and rely on LLM as a Judge, the results are not so…
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Agree with the web search point. (I would like for Perplexity to start to offer more models out of the box integrated, like they do now with OpenAI/Gemini models.)
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Processing 500 retrieved chunks here (probably with an additional LLM) will also add a bit of latency (not shown in these graphs!). So for user facing apps, that scenario is probably not feasible (mor…
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If I may shamelessly suggest my own book for those looking for a more basic intro to calling the APIs, including a chapter devoted to agentic patterns across the different SDKs (openai, claude, and go…
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Off topic, but Simon's Pelican on a bike SVG makes me think they are using that is the current models. I ask for much simpler SVG icons periodically (to insert into webpages, map icons, chart ico…
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I read these and think it is just the jagged edge. I do not doubt your personal experience, I have used Composer 2.5 (via Grok and the credits I get with my X premium account) the past month. I am not…