Anthony Panozzo's Blog

I recently posted about a job posting search engine I prototyped that used OpenAI’s Embeddings API.
As I tested this out in a Google Colab notebook, I guessed that the same text would always result in the same embedding. I compared embeddings of the same text and found that they were indeed identical. I also added a space or words to the text and saw...

I recently worked on a job posting search engine and wanted to share how I approached it and some findings.
Motivation
I had a data set of job postings and wanted to provide a way to find jobs using natural language queries. So a user could say something like “job posting for remote Ruby on Rails engineer at a startup that values diversity” and the search engine would...

I’ve written a few Tampermonkey userscripts to improve websites that I regularly use, and I wanted to share some patterns that I have found useful.
Generally I iterate on the scripts in the Tampermonkey Chrome Extension editor, and then push to GitHub for versioning and backup....

I somewhat recently ran into an issue where our system was incorrectly creating duplicate records. Here’s a writeup of how we found and fixed it.
Creating duplicate records
After reading through the request logs, I saw that we were receiving intermittent duplicate requests from a third-party vendor (applicant tracking system) for certain webhook events. We already had a check to see if records exist in the database before...