Notes from actually building the things
Applied AI: what works, what doesn't, and what matters in the real world.
using a benchmark on a specific task
Second of three posts. Part 1 covered building an honest benchmark honest enough to trust. This post is the reference companion: each retrieval method in turn - how it works, where it came from, what it typically scores in the literature, how I implemented...
building a benchmark you can actually trust
This is the first in a series of posts about improving search results using a real-world scenario. Inevitably, as it’s written in 2026, it’s also a bit about the process of using LLMs. This part covers the work that underpins the rest - getting a solid...