Experiments in Supervised Learning Part 3

In the previous post we built a simple model to extract recipe data from a web page. But when we ran it on an actual recipe, the results were pretty rough: it achieved just 65% accuracy, mislabeled so...

Experiments in Supervised Learning Part 2

First Results: Building and Running the Initial Model In the last post, we looked at how an old side project —Recipe Folder— left me with a rich but messy dataset of recipes labeled by real users. We ...

Experiments in Supervised Learning: Lessons from an old Recipe App

How to Do Supervised Learning: Lessons from an Old Recipe App *Heads Up : This is a technical post and requires enough understanding of programming to be relatively comfortable in Visual Studio Code T...

LLMs and Coding 6 months later

Good lord, has really been 6 months since I last wrote a post about LLMs and coding - how the world has changed since that time. I guess with 6 years between posts before November, and 6 months betwee...

The Trough of Disillusionment

As we get more and more experience with LLM's I am starting to get worried that I am spending more time relying them and letting my brain atrophy rather than exercising one of my key skills - debuggin...