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The Big 2022 Garbage Report - by Ryan Broderick
The Big 2022 Garbage Report
Ryan Broderick
As long as people think that government (as an ideal and an imperfect reality) is the enemy, we are doomed. Global warming and other problems are too complex to be solved without a collective action, rooted in a desire to make our lives better in ways that are not contingent on market efficiency or personal enrichment. Can a society be said to suffer from dementia? Watching my father succumb, I'm more convinced than ever that he is far from alone.
Notes From Pennsylvania
Matthew Gallaway
RAG is often implemented using [vector search against embeddings](https://simonwillison.net/2023/Oct/23/embeddings/#answering-questions-with-retrieval-augmented-generation), but there’s an alternative approach where you turn the user’s question into some full-text search queries, run those against a traditional search engine, then feed the results back into an LLM and ask it to use them to answer the question.
Building search-based RAG using Claude, Datasette and Val Town
Simon Willison
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