Cake Day
It's been one year since this blog began. Time to celebrate with some cake jello! I've got some cool new ideas in the oven and will be dropping some new treats soon!
Cheers! Enjoy the cake jello!
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Book Recommender
Reflections on Semantic Book Recommender Tutorial I recently worked through a video tutorial on building a book recommendation engine, and it ended up covering a lot more ground than I expected. Rather than relying on a single model, it pulls together several different techniques to turn a raw dataset of
A RAG in the Trees
https://github.com/randclem/sitt-rag/ This is a companion project to Something in the trees. The development of a Retrieval-Augmented Generation system for LLMs to provide information related to cryptids and cryptid lore. Building a RAG isn't just about stuffing documents into a vector store and
September 2026
Its been a little while since I've posted an article as I've been working on a several new projects at once and I'm learning a lot of new things. There is only so much time for writing. But I do have some new things
My First Week with Claude
After being introduced to what Claude code can do at a workshop meeting last week, I became suddenly interested in this Agentic AI. Not to say that I haven't used AI before, its been part of some of daily workflows now for a couple of years, as well