April 2025 – Page 2 – Andrew Fairless, Ph.D.

What I Read: agents

By Andrew Fairless on April 15, 2025January 11, 2025

https://huyenchip.com/2025/01/07/agents.html AgentsChip HuyenJan 7, 2025 “This section will start with an overview of agents and then continue with two aspects that determine the capabilities of an agent: tools and planning….Continue readingWhat I Read: agents

What I Read: Age of Data

By Andrew Fairless on April 14, 2025January 5, 2025

https://amatria.in/blog/ageofdata The end of the “Age of Data”? Enter the age of superhuman data and AIXavier AmatriainDecember 24, 2024 “This post will argue that the age of data is farContinue readingWhat I Read: Age of Data

What I Read: ScyllaDB

By Andrew Fairless on April 10, 2025January 1, 2025

https://medium.com/@abdurohman/mind-blowing-postgresql-meets-scylladbs-lightning-speed-and-monstrous-scalability-7dcda1eb1cea Mind-blowing: PostgreSQL Meets ScyllaDB’s Lightning Speed and Monstrous ScalabilityAbdurohmanDecember 24, 2024 “While PostgreSQL excels in many use cases, our experience shows that for write-heavy, high-scale operations, the distributed architectureContinue readingWhat I Read: ScyllaDB

What I Read: Building agents

By Andrew Fairless on April 9, 2025December 31, 2024

https://www.anthropic.com/research/building-effective-agents Building effective agentsErik Schluntz and Barry ZhangDec 19, 2024 “Over the past year, we’ve worked with dozens of teams building large language model (LLM) agents across industries. Consistently, theContinue readingWhat I Read: Building agents

What I Read: Shapley Interactions

By Andrew Fairless on April 8, 2025December 30, 2024

https://mindfulmodeler.substack.com/p/what-are-shapley-interactions-and What Are Shapley Interactions, and Why Should You Care?Christoph MolnarDec 03, 2024 “Shapley values are the go-to method for explainable AI because they are easy to interpret and theoreticallyContinue readingWhat I Read: Shapley Interactions

What I Read: Pooling, Graph Neural Networks

By Andrew Fairless on April 7, 2025December 29, 2024

https://gnn-pooling.notion.site/1-3-pooling-in-graph-neural-networks Pooling in Graph Neural NetworksBy FILIPPO MARIA BIANCHIDecember 2024 “Despite their success, scaling GNNs to handle larger and more complex graphs remains a significant challenge. Graph pooling plays aContinue readingWhat I Read: Pooling, Graph Neural Networks

What I Read: ML, Go

By Andrew Fairless on April 3, 2025December 28, 2024

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2024/gomlx-ml-in-go-without-python/#footnote-reference-2 GoMLX: ML in Go without PythonEli BenderskyNovember 22, 2024 at 07:00 “GoMLX is a relatively new Go package for ML that deserves some attention.”

What I Read: Implementing Raft

By Andrew Fairless on April 2, 2025December 28, 2024

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2020/implementing-raft-part-0-introduction Implementing Raft: Part 0 – IntroductionFebruary 22, 2020 at 20:33 “The goal of this series of posts is to describe a fully functioning and rigorously tested implementation of Raft,Continue readingWhat I Read: Implementing Raft

What I Read: Reward Hacking

By Andrew Fairless on April 1, 2025December 21, 2024

https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2024-11-28-reward-hacking Reward Hacking in Reinforcement LearningLilian WengNovember 28, 2024 “Reward hacking occurs when a reinforcement learning (RL) agent exploits flaws or ambiguities in the reward function to achieve high rewards,Continue readingWhat I Read: Reward Hacking

Month: April 2025