How to Train an LLM-RecSys Hybrid for Steerable Recs with Semantic IDs
An LLM that can converse in English & item IDs, and make recommendations w/o retrieval or tools.
14 Sep 2025
Building News Agents for Daily News Recaps with MCP, Q, and tmux
Learning to automate simple agentic workflows with Amazon Q CLI, Anthropic MCP, and tmux.
04 May 2025
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Building AI Reading Club: Features & Behind the Scenes
Exploring how an AI-powered reading experience could look like.
12 Jan 2025
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Website
AlignEval: Building an App to Make Evals Easy, Fun, and Automated
Look at and label your data, build and evaluate your LLM-evaluator, and optimize it against your labels.
Building the Same App Using Various Web Frameworks
FastAPI, FastHTML, Next.js, SvelteKit, and thoughts on how coding assistants influence builders' choices.
08 Sep 2024
• Github
Building an AI Coach to Help Tame My Monkey Mind
Building an AI coach with speech-to-text, text-to-speech, an LLM, and a virtual number.
07 Apr 2024
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Obsidian-Copilot: An Assistant for Writing & Reflecting
Writing drafts via retrieval-augmented generation. Also reflecting on the week's journal entries.
Interacting with LLMs with Minimal Chat
Should chat be the main UX for LLMs? I don't think so and believe we can do better.
30 Apr 2023
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Demo
Raspberry-LLM - Making My Raspberry Pico a Little Smarter
Generating Dr. Seuss headlines, fake WSJ quotes, HackerNews troll comments, and more.
16 Apr 2023
• Github
Experimenting with LLMs to Research, Reflect, and Plan
Also, shortcomings in document retrieval and how to overcome them with search & recsys techniques.
09 Apr 2023
• Github
Informal Mentors Grew into ApplyingML.com!
More than two dozen interviews with ML Practitioners sharing their stories and advice
Beating the Baseline Recommender with Graph & NLP in Pytorch
Beating the baseline using Graph & NLP techniques on PyTorch, AUC improvement of ~21% (Part 2 of 2).
TalkBuilding a Strong Baseline Recommender in PyTorch, on a Laptop
Building a baseline recsys based on data scraped off Amazon. Warning - Lots of charts! (Part 1 of 2).
Product Categorization API Part 3: Creating an API
Or how to put machine learning models into production.
13 Feb 2017
• Github
Product Classification API Part 2: Data Preparation
Cleaning up text and messing with ascii (urgh!)
11 Dec 2016
• Github
Image classification API is now live!
A simple web app to classify fashion images into Amazon categories.
27 Nov 2016
• Github
SortMySkills is now live!
A card sorting game to discover youl passion by identifying skills you like and dislike.
23 Oct 2016
• Github
Product Classification API Part 1: Data Acquisition
Parsing json and formatting product titles and categories.
11 Oct 2016
• Github
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