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Training 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  ·  23 min  ·  llm recsys learning 🛠 🩷

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  ·  8 min  ·  llm learning 🛠

Building AI Reading Club: Features & Behind the Scenes

Exploring how an AI-powered reading experience could look like.

12 Jan 2025  ·  10 min  ·  llm learning 🛠 🩷

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.

27 Oct 2024  ·  14 min  ·  llm eval learning 🛠 🩷

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  ·  8 min  ·  learning engineering python 🛠

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  ·  4 min  ·  llm ai life 🛠

Obsidian-Copilot: An Assistant for Writing & Reflecting

Writing drafts via retrieval-augmented generation. Also reflecting on the week's journal entries.

11 Jun 2023  ·  6 min  ·  llm engineering 🛠

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  ·  3 min  ·  llm misc 🛠

Raspberry-LLM - Making My Raspberry Pico a Little Smarter

Generating Dr. Seuss headlines, fake WSJ quotes, HackerNews troll comments, and more.

16 Apr 2023  ·  2 min  ·  llm 🛠

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  ·  14 min  ·  llm deeplearning learning 🛠 🔥

Informal Mentors Grew into ApplyingML.com!

More than two dozen interviews with ML Practitioners sharing their stories and advice

25 Nov 2021  ·  1 min  ·  machinelearning career 🛠

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).

13 Jan 2020  ·  17 min  ·  recsys deeplearning python 🛠

Building 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).

06 Jan 2020  ·  14 min  ·  recsys deeplearning python 🛠

Product Categorization API Part 3: Creating an API

Or how to put machine learning models into production.

13 Feb 2017  ·  8 min  ·  machinelearning production python 🛠

Image search is now live!

A web app to find similar products based on image.

14 Jan 2017  ·  4 min  ·  deeplearning python production 🛠

Product Classification API Part 2: Data Preparation

Cleaning up text and messing with ascii (urgh!)

11 Dec 2016  ·  8 min  ·  machinelearning python 🛠

Image classification API is now live!

A simple web app to classify fashion images into Amazon categories.

27 Nov 2016  ·  2 min  ·  deeplearning python production 🛠

SortMySkills is now live!

A card sorting game to discover youl passion by identifying skills you like and dislike.

23 Oct 2016  ·  4 min  ·  misc 🛠

Product Classification API Part 1: Data Acquisition

Parsing json and formatting product titles and categories.

11 Oct 2016  ·  9 min  ·  machinelearning python 🛠

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