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AI & ML 17 min

Do You Need Fine-Tuning? Two of the Big Three Are Taking It Away

The usual case against fine-tuning is that it is expensive. That case is wrong — a small training run costs about four d...

Kenji Tanaka

Pub. 2 Aug

A Hong Kong road sign giving the same directions twice, in English and in Traditional Chinese.

AI & ML 14 min

Using AI in Your Own Language — What the Machine Can Actually See

The same sentence costs seven tokens in English and fifteen in Malay. That gap is usually explained as a money problem;...

Kenji Tanaka

Pub. 2 Aug

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AI & ML 13 min

Before You Hire Anyone to Deploy AI, Read the Report They Are Quoting

Every pitch for embedded AI engineering rests on one statistic: 95% of enterprise AI pilots fail. I downloaded the paper...

Jeffrey Tan

Pub. 31 Jul

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AI & ML 12 min

Nobody Is Training the People This Job Actually Needs

I read the entry requirements of every Forward Deployed Engineer programme I could find, then read what Singapore's publ...

Jeffrey Tan

Pub. 31 Jul

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AI & ML 12 min

The Best Forward Deployed Engineers May Not Be Engineers

An AI practitioner in Beijing argues that the best Forward Deployed Engineers he has worked with were not computer scien...

Jeffrey Tan

Pub. 31 Jul

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AI & ML 9 min

Where Does My Data Actually Go?

"Do you use my data?" is two questions wearing one coat. Training asks whether your text enters a future model and is us...

Jeffrey Tan

Pub. 31 Jul