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Doug Turnbull

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Doug Turnbull's personal blog and essays

Don't classify. Hallucinate!

10 Aug 2026

A useful pattern for LLM classification at scale is to let it hallucinate plausible, fake entities. Then resolve to real ones.

Vectors Week: become a savier vector db customer

29 Jul 2026

A week of wector wevents - vector retrieval, hybrid search, combining the dense and lexical.

Just brute force your embeddings

29 Jul 2026

Sure its not fancy, but you might save operational headaches by just brute-forcing vector search for a small enough corpus

Principal Component Analysis: an embedding shrink-ray

24 Jul 2026

Let's walk through basics of using PCA to reduce dimensionality of embeddings

Don't ask what you want. Ask who you want to be

13 Jul 2026

A revelation has occured to me. Don't obsess about what you want. Figure out who you want to be.

Why write code in 2026

9 Jul 2026

A bunch of reasons to write code in 2026

Write code, not specs

4 Jul 2026

In the before times, code was deterministic and self documenting. Why don't we show AI what we want by... just writing some of the code?