Can you figure out where people's talking points come from with LLMs?

An examination of 203 testimonies around a contentious NYC zoning proposal

How citymeetings.nyc uses AI to make it easy to navigate city council meetings

My talk at NYC School of Data 2024.

Why you should regularly and systematically evaluate your LLM results

An example of how I did this to get better results and build intuition, fast.

A primer on Roaring bitmaps: what they are and how they work

An accessible overview of a highly space-efficient bitmap data structure.

Using Metaphone to handle bad transcriptions in voice search for sommeliers

A fun hack using phonetic algorithms.