Week 51

What I pre-planned

• work on Xanthium
  • proper working vector search
  • implement tag management
  • folder management
  • auto tagging
  • update on X
• Output demo video editing
• revive docucap?

What new did I learn

• understood how vector search actually works (hnsw indexes)
• input parameters and its effects on llms (temp, top p/k, penalties)
• reciprocal rank fusion and hybrid reranking using fts+bm25 on vector embeddings

Where/How did I implement it

• Xanthium progress going great
  • basic vector search in duckdb
  • implemented rrf with fts in duckdb
  • tag management complete + individual tweet tagging
  • folder management partial
  • auto tagging complete and started processing (~17hrs)
• Output demo video
  • editing going good, satisfied
  • this time able to cook faster than last time
  • 60% video is edited

Any memorable moments of the week

• getting good at football (defending)
• grok 4 and tokenbender follow
• started a community as a first step
• actually working vector search on tweets felt great