Reminder for future self:
Don’t try to fit into someone else’s shoes.
Wearing a shoe that doesn’t fit only leads to cramped foot. Remember that.
Don’t copy journeys. It’s okay to fail trying.
@Yuchenj_UW converting TS to Python to dodge copyright is wild but also kind of proves the point. if an AI can translate your entire codebase to another language in hours, what exactly is the moat? its not the code. its the data, the users, and the iteration speed
@vitrupo Rare Garry Tan W. Someone had to say it. If my iPhone can’t get the best atleast help me modify my Assistant like switching between Google Assistant and Gemini on Android.
So good this one. Made me realise how there’s still a lot of research and work to be explored in fields like Information Retrieval and classical language processing algorithms.
My final thesis was on a LexRank optimisation and this made damn nostalgic :’)
synonymic query expansion.
when building search at Unacademy, this was one of the first features we built. this one simple feature skyrocketed our search relevance.
if this term seems new to you, you are just one llm lookup away :) dig deeper and have fun.