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A search engine in 80 lines of Python
In this post I explain how I built a search engine from scratch using python. The resulting search engine is used to search in the posts of the blogs I follow.
Alex Molas
Hello, world, I'm Alex, and this is my blog, where I talk about math, machine learning, and other things like cooking.
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Who needs Git when you have 1M context windows?
Lately I’ve heard a lot of stories of AI accidentally deleting entire codebases or wiping production databases . But in my case it was the other way around. I removed some working code and the LLM helped me to recover it.
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Good code is rarely read
The other day I was interviewing a developer for a position at Wallapop. The candidate was a little bit junior, but I enjoyed their technical assignment and the conversation was going great. One of the questions I had to ask was