1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1231+ words) How modern RAG pipelines work, what they look like in production, and how they've evolved beyond the naive "embed, search, stuff" pattern. Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is a pattern for giving a language model access to information it wasn't trained…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (849+ words) When the original prompt-engineering playbook was written, the state of the art was GPT-3.5, and you could roughly double a model's math accuracy by appending Let's think step by step to your prompt. That trick worked because the base model…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (762+ words) How to frame, label, train, and validate classification models on financial data without fooling yourself, with runnable Python examples in scikit-learn and LightGBM. Most quant problems can be framed either as regression (predict a continuous return) or classification (predict a…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (101+ words) Investors MLQ.ai A clear guide to financial time series analysis: why price series are non-stationary and why analysts work with returns instead, the key statistical properties of financial data (autocorrelation, fat tails, and volatility clustering), and the classic models…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1675+ words) How to write prompts that get reliable output from modern LLMs, including reasoning models, structured outputs, and the shift from prompt to context engineering. Prompt engineering is the practice of designing the input to a large language model so it…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (453+ words) Richard Sutton, the 2024 Turing Award winner widely credited as the father of modern reinforcement learning, has founded a new AI startup called Oak Lab. Sutton and co-founder Khurram Javed, a former PhD student, both departed John Carmack's Dallas-based Keen Technologies…...

2+ week, 14+ hour ago   (628+ words) OpenAI said on July 10 that its GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra model generated a complete proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture — a 50-year-old unsolved problem in graph theory — in under one hour. The company published the proof and the prompt used…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (635+ words) Mistral AI on June 23 released OCR 4, a document-intelligence model that extracts and classifies text from PDFs, Word files, PowerPoint decks, and OpenDocument formats. In blind evaluations of more than 600 documents, independent annotators preferred OCR 4's output over every tested competitor…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago   (147+ words) MLQ.ai - Anthropic exposed nearly 3,000 unpublished documents on its website, revealing details of 'Claude Mythos,' its most capable AI model to date[1][2][3]. - The model, also called 'Capybara,' shows major advances in coding, reasoning, and cybersecurity capabilities, surpassing Claude Opus[2][5][6]. - Anthropic…...

5+ mon, 13+ hour ago   (97+ words) MLQ.ai Alphabet is integrating its robotics software company Intrinsic into Google as a distinct business unit, ending its five-year operation as an independent subsidiary. The move allows Intrinsic to leverage Google's AI infrastructure and enterprise resources while focusing on…...