Over the past weeks, I’ve tested various methods to get LLMs to produce consistent, well-structured responses—an essential step when integrating these models into programmatic solutions, where free...
My GitLab CI/CD pipeline showed “Job succeeded” for the release stage, but CHANGELOG.md never changed. The version bumped correctly, tags were created, yet the changelog remained empty. No errors a...
After merging a PR to the main branch of the crmPack R package repository, I noticed the GitHub Pages deployment workflow failed with a cryptic error: atomic push failed for ref refs/heads/gh-pages...
As a data scientist or ML practitioner, have you ever found yourself juggling multiple model experiments, losing track of which hyperparameters produced the best results, or struggling to reproduce...
Today I encountered a persistent 404 Not Found error on my Azure Static Web App. The confusing part? My GitHub Actions deployment pipeline was green and reporting “Success” every time. If you find...
In the dynamic world of clinical research, protocols evolve—and so must our approach to managing those changes. Over the years, I’ve witnessed firsthand how clear processes, thoughtful communicatio...
Order statistics play a crucial role in probability and statistics, particularly in quantile estimation, reliability analysis, and extreme value theory. In previous posts, we’ve explored the Beta d...
Today, after extracting a ZIP file on Ubuntu, I found directories and files had restrictive permissions (dr-xr-x---), preventing modification or deletion. Here’s a quick guide on why this occurs, h...
While working with Portkey’s embedding API to compute cosine similarity between text embeddings, I encountered two issues that led to aTypeError. Reflecting on these mistakes and how I fixed them h...
In previous posts, we explored how the Beta distribution enables exact frequentist inference for binomial proportions. Here, we extend this framework to address over-dispersion and group-level vari...