Casual updates on life as a ML engineer - currently working in the public utilities sector 🚰🚋🔌🗑 🎓 | Degrees in Math & CS Links: https://sarahglasmacher.com/links/https://bsky.app/profile/galaxyinferno.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/galaxyinferno.bsky.social/post/3lvwoxnshcs2pAugust ML coding challenge is alive and kicking - join for free and learn something with me 👀 https://www.sarahglasmacher.com/ml-repo-structure-challenge/09 Aug 2025 02:13 +0000at://did:plc:tuwlbzoevj6466rsh3e6dtvx/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvwoxnshcs2phttps://bsky.app/profile/galaxyinferno.bsky.social/post/3lvefhbw7cc22happy friday, coders ⌨️🎊 technically the work week is over - however I have an important project presentation next tuesday, so I think i’ll tweak my gridsearch some more 🫣01 Aug 2025 19:34 +0000at://did:plc:tuwlbzoevj6466rsh3e6dtvx/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvefhbw7cc22https://bsky.app/profile/galaxyinferno.bsky.social/post/3lmpyvrfub42zBeing an adult truly involves a lot of cleaning - not only your apartment but for some reason also your computer? And your phone camera roll (don't tell me I'm the only one with 2k screenshots 🫣) - and then there is work documentation to do as well. Anyways, I did some cleaning this weekend13 Apr 2025 21:35 +0000at://did:plc:tuwlbzoevj6466rsh3e6dtvx/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmpyvrfub42zhttps://bsky.app/profile/galaxyinferno.bsky.social/post/3lmdle5hreu2npublished my 4th article of the year on my blog 🥳 and my first ever post about mlflow, where i’m trying to overcome my imposter syndrome: i’m learning a lot, but am far from an expert and am sooo afraid of giving bad advice 🫠 buff.ly/pwLyjbL08 Apr 2025 23:01 +0000at://did:plc:tuwlbzoevj6466rsh3e6dtvx/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmdle5hreu2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/galaxyinferno.bsky.social/post/3lm6hmns3mm2hmy linkedin post finally published *with* its image attached 🥳 (also someone pls tell me why writing 400 word social posts feels easy but writing an 800 word blog post feels impossible?)06 Apr 2025 22:11 +0000at://did:plc:tuwlbzoevj6466rsh3e6dtvx/app.bsky.feed.post/3lm6hmns3mm2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/galaxyinferno.bsky.social/post/3lm2fndx2hd22“Rust” always trips me up because I can never tell on first glance if we’re talking about the game or the coding language - somehow my brain always defaults to the game and ends up confused 🤷🏻‍♀️05 Apr 2025 07:25 +0000at://did:plc:tuwlbzoevj6466rsh3e6dtvx/app.bsky.feed.post/3lm2fndx2hd22https://bsky.app/profile/galaxyinferno.bsky.social/post/3lljwpaya6b2cNo thank you, chatgpt, i would *not* like a printable tracker, I haven’t used my printer in 5 years 😅🫠 Is this a new thing or did I somehow tell it I love printing things?29 Mar 2025 18:15 +0000at://did:plc:tuwlbzoevj6466rsh3e6dtvx/app.bsky.feed.post/3lljwpaya6b2chttps://bsky.app/profile/galaxyinferno.bsky.social/post/3ll5xe466qp2lAnother day of triple checking all data and… finding out two temperature columns are not the same?! 🫠😤 I will never take sorted and orderly data for granted again.24 Mar 2025 23:54 +0000at://did:plc:tuwlbzoevj6466rsh3e6dtvx/app.bsky.feed.post/3ll5xe466qp2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/galaxyinferno.bsky.social/post/3lkm7lmem5l2lNew newsletter: my team and I were deep into a data audit - the forecasting model has already been trained - so the data should be very clean and complete, right? After all, someone has already worked with it... Spoiler alert: our data wasn’t nearly as complete as we thought. 😅 https://buff.ly/QzErNSV17 Mar 2025 22:34 +0000at://did:plc:tuwlbzoevj6466rsh3e6dtvx/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkm7lmem5l2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/galaxyinferno.bsky.social/post/3lkg557a6rw2cIs there any good source on comparing which LLMs/providers people actually use day to day in terms of percentages? I feel like we always hear from vocal minorities when new models launch, but how much has, for example, Gemini actually grown on the market in total? 👀15 Mar 2025 12:34 +0000at://did:plc:tuwlbzoevj6466rsh3e6dtvx/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkg557a6rw2chttps://bsky.app/profile/galaxyinferno.bsky.social/post/3lk3wmkpluk22vibe coding? see you in 2 years, when you start discussing “vibe debugging”, “vibe tech debt”, “vibe monitoring”, “vibe deployment”, “vibe security” and “vibe cost analytics”11 Mar 2025 11:11 +0000at://did:plc:tuwlbzoevj6466rsh3e6dtvx/app.bsky.feed.post/3lk3wmkpluk22https://bsky.app/profile/galaxyinferno.bsky.social/post/3ljiwwq2guq26I just wanted to write a quick tutorial on how I've used cosine similarity in pgvector to search for RAG sources in my side project... and now I'm doing a whole deep dive into "why tf are we using cosine similarity at all?" 🤔 and that's why I'm a very inconsistent content creator03 Mar 2025 21:56 +0000at://did:plc:tuwlbzoevj6466rsh3e6dtvx/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljiwwq2guq26https://bsky.app/profile/galaxyinferno.bsky.social/post/3lje3h7g6cs2u👩🏻‍💻 RAG side project update: Somehow I thought that fine-tuning a similarity threshold for RAG would be super difficult, but it turns out for my use case the “default” of 0.5 works just fine 🤷🏻‍♀️😅01 Mar 2025 23:33 +0000at://did:plc:tuwlbzoevj6466rsh3e6dtvx/app.bsky.feed.post/3lje3h7g6cs2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/galaxyinferno.bsky.social/post/3liygss2er22mI promised I would figure out what to do with my side project - here we are: i quickly threw together a short post on my website about a veery quick February project 😬 I said I would do a coding project each month, and I don’t intend to break that promise even if it means doing it in 4 days 😂25 Feb 2025 08:25 +0000at://did:plc:tuwlbzoevj6466rsh3e6dtvx/app.bsky.feed.post/3liygss2er22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/galaxyinferno.bsky.social/post/3livwdte26f26the irony of starting a RAG project & then immediately being thrown into a time series forecasting project at work😭 so now i’m spending all my free time learning about time series. It’s not even just about the available time - i find it incredibly hard to go “sponge-mode” on two topics at once. 🧽24 Feb 2025 08:25 +0000at://did:plc:tuwlbzoevj6466rsh3e6dtvx/app.bsky.feed.post/3livwdte26f26https://bsky.app/profile/galaxyinferno.bsky.social/post/3litfuw4avp22no elevator in the new interim-building at work, so we’re now doing hallway selfies in the window-reflection when i stay long enough to be dark outside 😅🤷🏻‍♀️23 Feb 2025 08:25 +0000at://did:plc:tuwlbzoevj6466rsh3e6dtvx/app.bsky.feed.post/3litfuw4avp22https://bsky.app/profile/galaxyinferno.bsky.social/post/3lira2spoyb2ri’ve completely abandoned my side projects for 3 weeks while I was busy working way too much on the team’s yearly goal roadmap at work and onboarding to a new time series project - i’ve opened it yesterday and am now sitting in front of it with a solid case of “huh what now?” 🤔🫣22 Feb 2025 11:35 +0000at://did:plc:tuwlbzoevj6466rsh3e6dtvx/app.bsky.feed.post/3lira2spoyb2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/galaxyinferno.bsky.social/post/3lgv6awsovg2rYou can really tell how money-hungry the GenAI market is whenever you’re searching for a small tool or library while coding and you only find closed-source SaaS solutions 🫠 damn it, I just want a quick testing setup and not a whole business contract…29 Jan 2025 14:23 +0000at://did:plc:tuwlbzoevj6466rsh3e6dtvx/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgv6awsovg2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/galaxyinferno.bsky.social/post/3lgnzyiqgux2xWhy are models all around text embedding so all over the place? 🫠 I've looked into the BGE models because of open-source and multi-linguality, but apparently they use the FlagEmbedding library not sentence-transformers? But you can also use both? So what is the best way? 😵‍💫26 Jan 2025 18:18 +0000at://did:plc:tuwlbzoevj6466rsh3e6dtvx/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgnzyiqgux2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/galaxyinferno.bsky.social/post/3lgagikb23f2aSo I just did Day 1, 30 minutes... I finished Tasks 1-5 😅 Normally my to-do lists are way too ambitious, this time I planned too little? Potentially?21 Jan 2025 08:25 +0000at://did:plc:tuwlbzoevj6466rsh3e6dtvx/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgagikb23f2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/galaxyinferno.bsky.social/post/3lg7obfofd32lIs sharing your todo list also part of "building in public"? Did anyone ever write a guide on how to "build in public"? 😅🫣21 Jan 2025 01:11 +0000at://did:plc:tuwlbzoevj6466rsh3e6dtvx/app.bsky.feed.post/3lg7obfofd32lhttps://bsky.app/profile/galaxyinferno.bsky.social/post/3lft3b6xiip2uYay new blog post 🥳 I’m a real docker noob 🐳 so this was quite out of my comfort zone but I’m expanding my skill set so I’m trying to be proud instead of scared 😅 (tips welcome but please don’t be mean) https://buff.ly/4jkZERm16 Jan 2025 00:59 +0000at://did:plc:tuwlbzoevj6466rsh3e6dtvx/app.bsky.feed.post/3lft3b6xiip2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/galaxyinferno.bsky.social/post/3lf6mwpn46j2aI am subscribed to probably 40 newsletters, I have never hated a single email coming to inbox. And yet, every time I sit down to write my own newsletter, I feel like a horrible selfish person who has nothing of value to share to my 190 subscribers 😩 Any advice? What do you want from newsletters?07 Jan 2025 21:49 +0000at://did:plc:tuwlbzoevj6466rsh3e6dtvx/app.bsky.feed.post/3lf6mwpn46j2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/galaxyinferno.bsky.social/post/3lf22ui3aud2bTomorrow it’s back to work for me 😨😥 (it will definitely look nothing like on the picture - which was taken at my old office - because I will probably be tired and grumpy and in home office😅 my sleep schedule is baaad rn) Please share your best return-to-work (after 2 weeks off) tips 👀06 Jan 2025 02:15 +0000at://did:plc:tuwlbzoevj6466rsh3e6dtvx/app.bsky.feed.post/3lf22ui3aud2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/galaxyinferno.bsky.social/post/3lexgwzgwa22rThat wonderful feeling when you finally figured out how to launch a local vector database 🤩🥳 (I’m a Docker noob 🐳 - surprisingly AI was very helpful today though) #MLSky #datasky05 Jan 2025 01:13 +0000at://did:plc:tuwlbzoevj6466rsh3e6dtvx/app.bsky.feed.post/3lexgwzgwa22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/galaxyinferno.bsky.social/post/3lev4bflf5d2xHaving AI in my code editor that can create a .gitignore page for me sounded really nice, until it somehow "exceeded the token limit" while doing it?! 😅 I'm a bit sad I won't find out what the heck it was trying to do there... 04 Jan 2025 02:57 +0000at://did:plc:tuwlbzoevj6466rsh3e6dtvx/app.bsky.feed.post/3lev4bflf5d2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/galaxyinferno.bsky.social/post/3leubmyemyc2fSwitching from Wordpress to Ghost was the best thing for my blog-happiness factor 🤩 i am sure this is just the honeymoon phase and Ghost will soon start showing issues but I was *never* proud of the way my Wordpress site looked or how I could adjust the look03 Jan 2025 19:00 +0000at://did:plc:tuwlbzoevj6466rsh3e6dtvx/app.bsky.feed.post/3leubmyemyc2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/galaxyinferno.bsky.social/post/3ldk6bv6rv22wAsked someone this week if they use AI tools and if so, which one. They were genuinely confused by the question and said “well, the one that everyone uses” (referring to ChatGPT) 🤷🏻‍♀️ It was a nice wake-up call of the online AI bubble 😅 Gemini 2, more like Gemini who18 Dec 2024 01:09 +0000at://did:plc:tuwlbzoevj6466rsh3e6dtvx/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldk6bv6rv22whttps://bsky.app/profile/galaxyinferno.bsky.social/post/3ldhhndl3cs25Caught up on a few advent of code blog posts 🫣 sadly, AI was little to no help and so another day goes by where sadly I am not replaced by AI 🤖☹️ Tomorrow I’m starting a new coding project at work so I promise more diverse news in my next update 😬16 Dec 2024 23:18 +0000at://did:plc:tuwlbzoevj6466rsh3e6dtvx/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldhhndl3cs25https://bsky.app/profile/galaxyinferno.bsky.social/post/3ldf4tkc6dc2nLast week before the holidays 🎄 … and I actually have 5 meetings tomorrow. My colleagues and I already joked that we could probably just leave our laptops at home, no coding will get done 🫤🤷🏻‍♀️ The last 4 are all in a row from 1pm to 4pm non stop - I will need to get some snacks to survive that 🫣16 Dec 2024 00:59 +0000at://did:plc:tuwlbzoevj6466rsh3e6dtvx/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldf4tkc6dc2n