TIL: Jev and the Rise of Decision Models

Last week, TypeSafe AI introduced Jev, a new category of model it calls a decision model. Unlike an LLM, Jev is not designed to generate prose. It takes unstructured text or JSON and returns a typed decision: a category, score, yes/no answer, extracted value, and an associated confidence score. TypeSafe describes it as “a frontier-intelligence function call: unstructured state in, typed probabilistic decisions out.” The important distinction is that a program can branch directly on the result instead of interpreting generated text. ...

September 24, 2026 · 4 min

Fastai’s Practical Deep Learning for Coders Course Release - 2020 Update!

On Aug 21st, 2020, fastai released a new version of their Practical Deep Learning for Coders -Part 1 course. This course is a must-take for new and intermediate deep learning practitioners. It is well done and teaches you intuition without drowning you in theory. The only prerequisites are some high-school math, and a year of coding experience (preferably in Python). This course is free and can be done without any installation, by taking advantage of the Colab and/or Gradient platforms, which provide free, GPU-powered Python notebooks. Go here to learn more about the course. ...

September 3, 2020 · 1 min