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I agree that it's great to define the acronym for the community. But with all respect, one of the primary AI debates over the last year has focused on how to p
by nycdatasci 3y ago
I agree that it's great to define the acronym for the community. But with all respect, one of the primary AI debates over the last year has focused on how to push more (potentially non-public) information into foundation LLMs like GPT-4.
RAG has been pretty central to that discussion. hn.algolia.com shows 248 results for "RAG" over all time and 89.9% of those are from the last year.
- andybak 3y agoI'd heard the phrase but not the acronym - there's a difference. Acronyms are only good for communicating phrases that you hear frequently. For infrequent terminology it's verging on puzzle-solving. Sometimes you can connect the dots and sometimes you can't.
- wenc 3y agoIn learning any new area of study, I’ve found that sociology to be super important. Rather than just reading the literature, I try to be immersed on the community and to overhear what people are talking about (r/localllama on Reddit is a good start). RAG is the coin of the realm in those communities and beyond. It’s not infrequently mentioned — in fact rather the opposite. I’ve found that learning an area solely by reading the literature etc is necessary but insufficient because you don’t get a sense of which topics are important. I’ve made this mistake several times in my career and ended up working on things that no one cared about.
- andybak 3y agoI think we're talking at cross purposes. I don't want to learn more acronyms. I want people to use less of them. (or rather use them more selectively). I'm trying to improve people's writing rather than improve my reading comprehension.
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