Joe Cooper's Blog

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• What Does AI Really Do?

  August 30, 2025

  What you really need to know as a user, not developer, of modern AI systems.

• Resume Vibe Check

  August 22, 2025

  I've put an app online to check your resume with a GPT-wrapper simulator.

• RAG-Shot Learning

  August 15, 2025

  Retrieval-based in-context learning (RetICL) improves LLM performance by retrieving relevant labeled examples during inference.

• Prompting by Activation Maximization

  August 12, 2025

  Prompt synthesis with activation maximization achieves 95.9% on Yelp Review Polarity with Llama-3.2-1B and a 4-token prompt.

• Semantic Deduplication

  March 18, 2025

  Benchmarking various models to find the best way to deduplicate factoids for AI applications.