Week 9, year 2025
- GenAI Patterns: Fine Tuning - While RAG is the most common way to focus a foundation model on material outside its training set, Bharani Subramaniam and I now finish our current batch of patterns by examining our experience with Fine Tuning where we learned to prioritize curating high-quality data. [Martin Fowler]
- Commenting on removing "X" on US passports - The new US administration has decided to eliminate the “X” option for gender/sex on passports. I have several non-binary friends, and I don’t see why they should have to select an option that makes no sense for them. I also don’t see how an “X” option on identity documents causes a material problem for anyone else. There’s not much I can do to object to this change, but one little thing is to add a comment on the Federal Register for such rule changes. There are three such pages: DS-11 new passport application: (deadline 3/17/25) https://www. federalregister. [Martin Fowler]
- (Naive) Reuse Considered Harmful? - Reuse per boxes and lines is great if you have no operational needs... [The Architect Elevator]