Now

Jan 2025

• Working on:

  • Spell checker - I’ll write a post about modern design of spell checker for product search.
  • Introduce personalization to rerank.
  • Try LoRA on language models.

• study@NUS: this semester I’ll take Cloud Computing and Text Mining courses.

• Reading

  • Cloud Computing
  • Introduction to Information Retrieval
  • Programming Pearls: Will go through all exercises in the book.

• Done:

  • DevOps, DataOps, MLOps: 2/5 - NOT Recommended.
  • GNU Make Book: Review.

Dec 2024

• Reading The Silmarillion.
• Working on threshold optimization.
  • Accuracy is maintained while performance improves between 50-80%, the first feature is released at the start of Y25.
• Improving multi-lingual search quality by finetuning BGE-M3.
  • It was a huge pain 😠 😠. I stopped working on it, the training is not stable with some random spikes of gradients that completely destroys the training.
• Studying: MLOps, AWS.
• Overhauled my homepage. I like the simplicity of the new theme.
  • Also added vale to my workflow.
  • Decoupled the deployment of lora from the homepage.
  • Upgraded to 11ty v3.
  • Added Github comments
• (VN) Reviewed Dune.