Career Katral · Lesson 20 · 12 min

A boring baseline first

In one sentence

A classifier or a rule often beats a fashionable LLM. Write why.

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Career coach

The market hires proof. We will build the proof.

Read the idea, watch the picture, then try it with your hands.

Watch the idea

The concept

Text

A citable chunk

Vector

A point on the meaning map

Neighbour

Similar idea, not keyword

A classifier or a rule often beats a fashionable LLM. Write why.

Then prove it

Open the lab. Pass it. Write one sentence you could say in an interview.

Worked example

A classifier or a rule often beats a fashionable LLM. Write why.

Picture to keep

Small · Holdout · Then LLM?