Kian Ghodoussi’s Blog – Kian.WTF

Santa Barbara Burger Week Prospective Itinerary

This is the set of restaurants for which I am the most personally excited about during Santa Barbara burger week. This list factors in variety, convenience, and excitement. I…

SC-RNA Cell Type Classification 2

So this problem turned out to be easier than we even thought. We initially needed more labels (150 per class) because the input data was log normalized - we assumed that it…

I’m tired of AI Images

Not much more to it than that Websites and blogs were already shoehorn images into content as if they are a requirement to publish on the internet. TV ads and music…

I’m not a good enough engineer to code with LLMs

I experimented with LLM coding for a bit but quickly scaled back my usage to only niche use cases. I started by using it for data visualization and it one-shot converted my…

Reddit Blocked Me

So I got blocked by Reddit at a network level. Every so often I search for “SOME_PRODUCT reviews reddit”. Despite all the astroturfing it’s a hard habit to break.

LLMs Replace Caulk with Cream Cheese

Cream cheese is great on a bagel; it’s a pretty sorry replacement for caulk. They both fill holes in your wall just fine, but over time caulk hardens and cream cheese decays.

Hierarchical Mixture Model for Single Cell Sequencing I

One of my favorite parts of my job is that I am able to spend 1 day per week focusing on applying our hierarchical mixture modeling technology to genomic applications. I’ve…

State of the AI Industry in a Screenshot

Oct. 2024 post goes into extended detail aobut how much work it is to build a RAG system, the competetive advantage in AI is not the LLM but being incredbly smart about what…

Santa Barbara Burrito Week Prospective Itinerary

This is the set of restaurants for which I am the most personally excited about during Santa Barbara burrito week. This list factors in variety, convenience, and excitement. …

Santa Barbara Sandwich Week Prospective Itinerary

This is the set of restaurants for which I am the most personally excited about during Santa Barbara sandwich week. This list factors in variety, convenience, and excitement.…

SB Burger Week Tiers

Tags Legend * V: upscale vibe * C: chilled vibe * +: Easy bike from oak park

Large Language Models do not work the way people think that they do (the result will be bad)

A single pixel can break neural image models. The same technology is being used to make value judgements. The scale of investment for the current generation of language…