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Developer. Podcaster. Nerd.. I'm a software engineer specializing in complex UI for web apps. I love all things frontend, but I'm also excited by the potential of new technologies ( I'm looking at you, LLMs) to transform our relationship with data.
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Alternatives to cosine similarity
Last month we looked at how cosine similarity works and how we can use it to calculate the "similarity" of two vectors. But why choose cosine similarity over any other distance function? Why not use Euclidean distance, or Manhattan, or Chebyshev? In this
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How does cosine similarity work?
Look up "how to compare vectors" and cosine similarity will be the most common (if not the only ) approach you will see. I've been working with vectors a lot lately in the context of LLM embeddings, and being able to measure how similar any two embeddings
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How do you test the quality of search results?
The site-search for this blog needs improving, but I have no idea how to measure how "good" or "bad" it is. If I can't measure it, then how can I tell if any future changes improve it? With this in mind I've finally done some research and put together a h
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What even is a week? (dates are hard)
Anyone who's ever worked with dates in code will know that they can be, well, unpredictable . Timezones are the classic bête noire of many a programmer and there are many, many horror stories of bugs caused by daylight savings time transitions. My most re
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Subsetting my font files reduced their size by more than 60%
Despite often describing myself as a "typography nerd", there's not all that much evidence of my font-nerdery on these pages. And given that I'm a vocal proponent of making sites small and fast, it's doubly damning that I've never given much thought to th
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