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Dan Turkel
@daturkel.bsky.social
Machine learning, recommenders and personalization, music, books.

danturkel.com / Brooklyn, NY
@simonwillison.net Is there a way in llm to have a template pass $input to a fragment loader? E.g. if I want a url summarizer, I want llm to load the input url as a fragment and pass that as context. Just setting $input as a fragment doesn't work.
November 18, 2025 at 10:59 PM
@simonwillison.net I'm working on rag tool for llms own embeddings db. It works, though I've had trouble getting good results out of it (it really doesn't work well with symbex --nl output; it works ok with docs). Curious what you think

github.com/daturkel/llm...

gist.github.com/daturkel/b27...
llm-tools-rag-demo.md
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May 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
@simonwillison.net I made an llm fragment plugin to use a library (Trafilatura) to locally convert a site to markdown rather than using the Jina API. The experience was super easy and fun.

Is it possible to pass a fragment into a chat though?

github.com/daturkel/llm...
GitHub - daturkel/llm-fragments-site-text: Run URLs through Trafilatura to get plaintext
Run URLs through Trafilatura to get plaintext. Contribute to daturkel/llm-fragments-site-text development by creating an account on GitHub.
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May 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Loved this post from Dillon Davis at Airbnb on how they evolved their location retrieval system from heuristics to a NN-powered bandit.

Somehow I'd never heard of Monte Carlo dropout, but it looks like a great way to get uncertainty estimates from NNs (eg for bandits).

medium.com/airbnb-engin...
Transforming Location Retrieval at Airbnb: A Journey from Heuristics to Reinforcement Learning
How Airbnb leverages machine learning and reinforcement learning techniques to solve a unique information retrieval task in order to…
medium.com
December 12, 2024 at 11:35 PM
I thought Succession was based on the Murdochs but it turns out that the Murdochs are based on Succession.
It took an episode of SUCCESSION for them to realize they had a bit of an “extremely old, also mortal, conservative media scion with several politically misaligned heirs” problem on their hands???

No. Notes.
December 9, 2024 at 11:23 PM
Every branch that involves debugging a Github Action has 10-50 commits at the end with messages that become increasingly unhinged.

- add github action for CI
- fix bug in github action
- testing
- still testing
- dear god why
November 15, 2024 at 9:32 PM
I'm curious about this site, but a bit confused why all my suggested follows appear to be Xbox employees...
November 14, 2024 at 11:41 PM