Doug Turnbull
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Doug Turnbull's personal blog and essays
http://softwaredoug.com/
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Don't classify. Hallucinate!
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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
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29 Jul 2026
A week of wector wevents - vector retrieval, hybrid search, combining the dense and lexical.
Just brute force your embeddings
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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
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24 Jul 2026
Let's walk through basics of using PCA to reduce dimensionality of embeddings