Saeed Esmaili
https://saeedesmaili.comI’m a data scientist based in Amsterdam, currently working at Spotify. I work on projects aimed at enhancing the productivity and experience of developers, using research and data analysis to inform our platform strategies.
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I started using Claude Code in July last year. I was a Cursor user looking for something better, and I was skeptical ...
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Welcome to the Netherlands! If you’re a newcomer like me and love tennis, or even if you’re looking to pick up a rack...
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When you’re independent you feel less desire to impress strangers, which can be an enormous financial and psychologic...
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In a discussion about LLMs and their impact on learning, gchamonlive writes on Hackernews: We can finally just take a...
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Recently I started using Simon Willison ’s CLI tool which is conveniently called llm . He introduced a particularly u...
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I’m always interested in reading how people use language models for automating boring tasks or performing what they w...
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I liked this post’s rules of thumbs for when to avoid scheduling meetings at work: Before calling a meeting, ask your...
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In part one of this blog series , I explored the motivation behind developing a personal recommendation system. The m...
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I love taking photos , taking my Sony A7cii wherever I travel. Although it’s a relatively small camera, I recently go...
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LLMs are being experimented with to do so many things today, and one of the use cases that sound compelling is gettin...
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Every morning, my RSS reader greets me with hundreds of new posts. Tech blogs, indie developers’ journals, photograph...
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When working with LLMs sometimes you want to know if the response you’re getting from the model is the one that at le...
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I read this blog post from Jordan on how he created a simple feature request form on his iOS app using Supabase’s Swi...
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I purchased a Sony a7ii in 2023, while having zero understanding of the basics of cameras and photography. I recall b...
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A few months ago I used streamlit to build a simple UI, so I can collect manually labeled data for a LLM fine-tuning ...
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Today I came across this brilliant python library called leopards which allows you to do some basic but frequently us...
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I’ve been using sentry for automatically logging the errors and exceptions of my python projects. A few months ago I ...
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If you want to make a good RAG tool that uses your documentation, you should start by making a search engine over tho...
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Google Gemini now can be accessed via OpenAI python library: from openai import OpenAI client = OpenAI( api_key="GEMI...
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This excellent essay from Karolina was the best I’ve read this year. I can related with many of her point on why frie...