Posts on Saeed Esmaili

I have added several long conversational youtube videos into a playlist, hoping I’ll come back to the them some day, but in reality I never do that.

I started using Claude Code in July last year.

Welcome to the Netherlands!

In part one of this blog series , I explored the motivation behind developing a personal recommendation system.

Every morning, my RSS reader greets me with hundreds of new posts.

I purchased a Sony a7ii in 2023, while having zero understanding of the basics of cameras and photography.

I’ve been using conversational alpaca or sharegpt formats for fine-tuning LLMs with Axolotl , but it always felt unnecessary to limit the model on a conversational format when the use-case doesn’t require so.

I was experimenting with some speech-to-text work using OpenAI’s Whisper models today, and transcribing a 15-minute audio file with Whisper tiny model on AWS Lambda (3 vcpu) took 120 seconds.

TLDR: Here is a simplified diagram of how I keep reading articles, books, and other materials without overwhelming myself or having a never-ending pile of to-read items.

I’ve been using GatsbyJS for publishing my blog posts here, but I wanted to move to another static site generator that is more automation friendly (more on this later).

I’m a big fan of unique charting styles and I avoid using the default matplotlib style whenever possible, as I find it boring and soleless.

Alfred has definitely boosted my productivity since I started using it almost a year ago.

For a personal project, I was looking for some guidance on how to develop a simple browser extension, but the information on this topic was so fragmanted and difficult to grasp.

I’ve been recently working on survey response data that in addition to aggregatable question types like Likert-scale and multiple-choice questions, includes optional free-text questions.

In my previous blog post I explored using the unstructured python library for loading and parsing documents.

In the world of data, textual data stands out as being particularly complex.

Recently, I’ve been working on a side project where I use OpenAI’s text-embedding-ada-002 model to generate vector embeddings for text snippets.

Background For quite a while now, I’ve been using Pocket as my go-to read-it-later app.

TL;DR: Whisper.cpp is the fastest when you’re trying to use the large Whisper model on a Mac.

Recently, I decided to switch my primary password manager to 1Password , using it across my Macbooks and Pixel phones on various browsers, including Firefox and Chrome.

I keep hearing from people that they find it difficult to keep track of what needs to be done.

I use Google Docs every day at work to communicate with various groups of people.