Notes, opinions and a learning diary on data engineering, cloud and LLMs.https://santhosh.world/https://santhosh.world/blog/website-deployed/https://santhosh.world/blog/website-deployed/Deploying a site on cloudflare the "normal" way took more time than I thought. I would not have been able to figure out all the nameserver changes, the MX, TXT, AAA, etc. by…Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTwebsitehttps://santhosh.world/blog/sparse-and-dense-similarity-search/https://santhosh.world/blog/sparse-and-dense-similarity-search/All this time I thought FAISS was an elementary part that later Sparse and Dense similarity search build upon. But I was wrong.Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTlearningProject:BioASQhttps://santhosh.world/blog/core-idea-and-initial-design/https://santhosh.world/blog/core-idea-and-initial-design/I wanted to design the website today. I imagined a pixel-art visual style but doing that all by myself would take so much time, which I don't have right now juggling with a dayjob…Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTwebsitehttps://santhosh.world/blog/getting-back-to-work/https://santhosh.world/blog/getting-back-to-work/The website that Claude generated looks just like a resume as a website. Not something I really like, but nothing to complain cuz I did not design the website's visuals yet. I will…Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTwebsitehttps://santhosh.world/blog/after-a-break-now/https://santhosh.world/blog/after-a-break-now/Been a good while since I got back to these things. So I am going to put the essay on hold. Also for my website I have been recording things I've been doing in a document and it is…Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTthoughtshttps://santhosh.world/blog/opposite-of-what-i-had-in-mind/https://santhosh.world/blog/opposite-of-what-i-had-in-mind/Did a re-read of chapter 1, and a couple places where I could dive deeper. Wrote some more content and Bam! 500 more words! Still just half of the idea I initially had. I am…Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTCreative:Parallelhttps://santhosh.world/blog/not-what-i-had-in-mind/https://santhosh.world/blog/not-what-i-had-in-mind/I started writing my essay. It flowed like a river. My thoughts to words. Felt good after so long. But just as I predicted, what I have now is hardly anything that I first had in…Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTCreative:Parallelhttps://santhosh.world/blog/core-system-for-bioasq/https://santhosh.world/blog/core-system-for-bioasq/Now I think most knowledge is gained. All that is left is to learn sparse and dense searches and FAISS but I will do that later. For now I am building the core skeleton to interact…Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTProject:BioASQhttps://santhosh.world/blog/writing-an-essay-now/https://santhosh.world/blog/writing-an-essay-now/It's happening. I am writing an essay now. It's my free time. I want to do something in my free time other than just applying for jobs. I am writing an essay, and I am not going to…Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTdiaryCreative:Parallelhttps://santhosh.world/blog/taking-a-chill-pill/https://santhosh.world/blog/taking-a-chill-pill/As much as we would like to "stay consistent" with some work that we are doing, I think we never admit the fact that we often get burnouts. We get lost into the apps that we build…Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTthoughtshttps://santhosh.world/blog/rag-retrieval-metrics/https://santhosh.world/blog/rag-retrieval-metrics/Resuming the RAG project today. Foundation on a bunch of things. Learnt a bunch of other things.Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTlearningProject:BioASQhttps://santhosh.world/blog/should-i-start-some-creative-content/https://santhosh.world/blog/should-i-start-some-creative-content/I remember a time I used to be an enthusiast for creative stuff. Used to enjoy doing edits on Photoshop and Illustrator cuz I was bored. Always made things, but never preserved…Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTthoughtshttps://santhosh.world/blog/building-a-website-for-myself/https://santhosh.world/blog/building-a-website-for-myself/Got bored of the RAG stuff *blep*. Designing a website for myself. So many nice profiles out there. I almost fell into a rabbit hole looking at these dev portfolios while seeking…Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTdiarywebsitehttps://santhosh.world/blog/decided-to-go-to-the-basics-of-rag/https://santhosh.world/blog/decided-to-go-to-the-basics-of-rag/Building a proper project with RAG this time - the BioASQ challenge. Using the API from PubMed to retrieve titles and abstracts from published articles to create a corpus.Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTProject:BioASQlearninghttps://santhosh.world/blog/problems-with-my-resume/https://santhosh.world/blog/problems-with-my-resume/I had a friend have their partner look at my resume and tell me what they think. What I heard actually hit me hard. First glaring issue he found was the lack of numbers in what…Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTthoughtshttps://santhosh.world/blog/hello-world/https://santhosh.world/blog/hello-world/Should I blog in here?Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTthoughts