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by grewil2 23 days ago
"Three knobs matter:"

I can't help reading articles with the radar on for signs of AI-generation nowadays. I have noticed that Claude sometimes uses the word knob for parameter, so here I get suspicious.

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The contribution here is the technique (which looks like a nice alternative to reranking) rather than the article or it being some kind of think piece, so does it really matter?

I was able to skim it and go from "lol they reinvented re-ranking" to "oh, that's something more interesting, I should try this one day", and the writing didn't get in the way.

I am being constantly mocked for using there term 'knob fiddling', but I am a British child of the 70's :-)