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Thurs Mar 31, 2011 6:07pm PST
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about
Former naval architect, turned marketing consultant in 2013, then VP Marketing at Pinecone from 2020 to 2024, then back to consulting.

Obsessed with growing deeply technical startups, chess, and ultralight travel.

https://www.gkogan.co - My personal-but-work-related site

https://www.gregkogan.com - My actual personal site with some cartoons and writing.

Best email: greg[at]gkogan.co

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Fri Jan 17, 2025 10:36pm PST
So You Want to Build Your Own Data Center
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Tues Jan 14, 2025 5:46pm PST
Should security analysts find new careers because of AI?
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Mon Jan 13, 2025 9:33pm PST
The App Renaissance Arrives
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Mon Jan 13, 2025 2:41pm PST
No data prep, no feature engineering: Predictive modeling in 2025 [video]
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Mon Jan 13, 2025 12:30pm PST
Cognee: Reliable LLM Memory for AI Applications and AI Agents
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Sat Jan 11, 2025 4:51pm PST
What Is DevRel
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Wed Jan 8, 2025 3:07pm PST
The App Renaissance Arrives
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Tues Jan 7, 2025 1:43am PST
Gentle Introduction to Using a Vector Database
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Mon Jan 6, 2025 10:59am PST
Do It in Jeans First
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Mon Jan 6, 2025 12:29am PST
Pinecone Rerank V0
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Sun Jan 5, 2025 3:46pm PST
Female Developers Navigate Discrimination in a Male-Dominated Field
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Sun Jan 5, 2025 3:09pm PST
CAG: Cache-Augmented Generation [pdf]
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Fri Dec 27, 2024 10:18pm PST
LLMs Fight with Both Hands Tied Behind Their Back
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Tues Dec 24, 2024 4:52pm PST
The Black Spatula Project: Day Five
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Tues Dec 24, 2024 3:20pm PST
Name My Agent
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Mon Dec 23, 2024 5:53pm PST
Is Everyone High?
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Sun Dec 22, 2024 2:09pm PST
I sensed anxiety and frustration at NeurIPS'24
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Fri Dec 13, 2024 2:57pm PST
No data prep, no feature engineering: Predictive modeling in 2025 [video]
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Thurs Dec 12, 2024 4:10pm PST
Evolution of Security Automation from Macros to Agents
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Fri Dec 6, 2024 4:28pm PST
Pinecone Local: a self-hosted, in-memory emulator of the vector database
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Fri Nov 22, 2024 12:00pm PST
The EU AI Act is a wake-up call
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Thurs Nov 21, 2024 5:16pm PST
Redpoint VC
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Thurs Nov 21, 2024 2:14pm PST
Behind the Mask: Jailbreak this LLM to win
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Fri Nov 15, 2024 6:20pm PST
The Scaling Hypothesis (2020)
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Thurs Nov 14, 2024 9:15pm PST
Git push and& get paid
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Thurs Nov 14, 2024 4:25am PST
Do Large Language Models make accurate personalized recommendations?
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Wed Nov 13, 2024 8:15pm PST
LLM Secrets: Chrome extension that stops sensitive data from reaching OpenAI
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Wed Nov 6, 2024 9:15pm PST
Embed
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Wed Nov 6, 2024 9:14pm PST
Embed: Agentic AI for triaging security alerts
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Wed Oct 23, 2024 6:14pm PST
Awesome-graph-transformer: Papers about graph transformers
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Mon Oct 21, 2024 12:35pm PST
Selling Software to Snake Charmers, and Other Mistakes I've Seen (2018)
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Fri Oct 18, 2024 1:10pm PST
When you find yourself competing with AWS, Azure, or GCP (2019)
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Thurs Oct 17, 2024 2:54pm PST
Sam Altman's Energy 'New Deal' Is Good for OpenAI and AI. What About Americans?
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Thurs Oct 17, 2024 1:20pm PST
Understanding the EU AI Act's Impact and Ripple Effects in the US
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Wed Oct 16, 2024 4:26pm PST
A Bot Didn't Just Make $150M in Crypto
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Wed Oct 16, 2024 1:08pm PST
What I learned from tracking 443 SaaS pricing pages
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Wed Oct 16, 2024 12:53pm PST
Think Out Loud (2018)
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Fri Oct 11, 2024 12:48pm PST
How to Find Consulting Clients (2017)
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Thurs Oct 10, 2024 3:42pm PST
You better have rerankers in RAG
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Fri Oct 4, 2024 2:30am PST
How good are LLMs at making recommendations, really?
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Thurs Oct 3, 2024 4:26pm PST
WP Engine Sues Matt Mullenweg [pdf]
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Wed Oct 2, 2024 6:58pm PST
AI Creativity Is a Question of Quality, Not Novelty
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Wed Oct 2, 2024 3:19pm PST
Poolside Raises $500M for Coding AI
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Tues Oct 1, 2024 7:08pm PST
After four years at Pinecone, I'm back to consulting
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Fri Sep 27, 2024 6:51pm PST
10-Minute Challenge: Hiroshige's 'Sudden Rain'
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Thurs Sep 26, 2024 2:48pm PST
The Security Analyst Pyramid
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Wed Sep 25, 2024 3:24pm PST
What Can We Remove
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Tues Sep 24, 2024 7:20pm PST
Fine-Tuning Best Practices: Models
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Tues Sep 24, 2024 1:45am PST
The Missing Guide to the H100 GPU Market
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Fri Sep 20, 2024 12:55pm PST
Microsoft's AI Power Needs Prompt Revival of Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant
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Wed Sep 18, 2024 3:54pm PST
The First Pancake
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Tues Sep 17, 2024 4:07pm PST
No Ghost Policy
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Tues Sep 17, 2024 3:40pm PST
Glitch-grid: A toy database for demoing distributed systems testing
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Tues Sep 17, 2024 2:42am PST
We gave $186,000 to the open source community
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Mon Sep 16, 2024 1:49pm PST
The Testing Pyramid is upside-down
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Tues Sep 10, 2024 3:12pm PST
In the Labyrinth of Unknown Unknowns
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Tues Sep 10, 2024 2:04pm PST
Commit to a System (2018)
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Mon Sep 9, 2024 1:21pm PST
AI Started as a Dream to Save Humanity. Then, Big Tech Took Over
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Sun Sep 8, 2024 2:41pm PST
Our "alternative" page got us 10% more users (2015)
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Sat Sep 7, 2024 11:44am PST
PCOnHand: The first smartwatch introduced in 1998
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Fri Sep 6, 2024 5:48am PST
Work with people who tell you when you're stupid
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Clarity Is Underrated
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Wed Sep 4, 2024 5:02pm PST
The Joy of Troubleshooting
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Wed Sep 4, 2024 4:50pm PST
Being Swamped Is Normal and Not Impressive (2022)
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Tues Sep 3, 2024 1:48pm PST
Performance-driven development: methodology for building systems powered by LLMs
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Tues Sep 3, 2024 1:29pm PST
An Infantilizing Double Standard for American College Students
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Thurs Aug 29, 2024 1:55am PST
Show HN: Let me plex that for you – Teach friends and others to use Perplexity
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Mon Aug 26, 2024 11:46pm PST
Journey on the Trans-Siberian: The Seal Show of Irkutsk
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