tools for learning and building • zotero: papers, annotations, citations • obsidian: notes, writing, connecting the dots • claude: thinking partner, improve understanding • claude code: implementation, code review (images from work on semantic IDs and residual-quantized

not easy to find other folks that work on rqvaes, recsys, and semantic ids

wow, not sure what Anthropic did, but Claude Code is working superbly with notebooks now, even with sloppy instructions.

look at that codebook distribution 👨‍🍳💋 (thanks Jeff Coggshall for the tip!)

Jeff Coggshall it's alive! i'm astounded you can replace item IDs with sequences of tokens (3 from the codebooks above + 1 to avoid collisions) and train a transformer to output tokens IN THE RIGHT ORDER recommend items. there are at least 256^3 (16.7M) combinations and it got it right.

When my model trains well I sleep well lol (note how bad it was over the weekend and more)

evals are all you need