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by RobinL 3y ago
Saw this yesterday and thought it looked interesting, but must admit haven't tried it yet: https://github.com/JushBJJ/Mr.-Ranedeer-AI-Tutor
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by RobinL 3y ago
Here's a decent article summarising the state of th evidence evidence. (I'm not making any claims about what the evidence says, I just found it interesting) https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220322-how
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by RobinL 3y ago
As mentioned by Hilary Clinton in a recent interview on the rest of politics, it's very telling that when silicon valley entrepreneurs advertise for nannies, they often have strict requirements for minimising screen time. Seems like th
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by RobinL 3y ago
You can also do it with Google lens on any android, unless I'm misunderstanding the functionality
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or the danger it imposes on more vulnerable road users, or the negative externality of huge vehicles littering neighborhoods What I struggle with is how it's socially acceptable for people to ignore all of these negative externalities.
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by RobinL 4y ago
I don't know how things will turn out but on the positive side two things come to mind: - Priya may find work using gpt4 in her current job or in another company. Some types of work that are currently economically infeasible may become
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Live map of UK wind energy output, showing wind speed and wind farm locations(renewables-map.robinhawkes.com)
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by RobinL 4y ago
I wonder whether this is because unlike openai they don't have access to all of the code on Github, or aren't sure they're (legally) allowed to use it. Does anyone know the details?
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by RobinL 4y ago
From using ChatGPT, one of my observations is how it really undermines any point click data dashboarding software, particularly self serve (i.e. where the user is not an expert in the particular dataset). It's easy to get ChatGPT to w
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by RobinL 4y ago
Agreed - I've managed to switch for breakfast cereal, but can't quite find something that works as well for coffee. Hazelnut was my favourite, but still not quite as good
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by RobinL 4y ago
Making milk using cows is incredibly inefficient from an energy inputs point of view. You have to grow crops which you feed to cows which then turn a tiny percentage of the input energy into usable food. As a result, it's possible th
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by RobinL 4y ago
If someone made fake milk that tasted like the real thing I would pay twice as much, no qualms, due to the environmental benefits (assuming it was provably a lot less energy intensive), and also animal welfare issues
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by RobinL 4y ago
I love this - thanks! Easiest interface into ChatGPT I've found. /setvoice didn't see to work for me. I was looking for a British voice and tried /setvoice Brian Am I doing something wrong?
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by RobinL 4y ago
I really enjoyed this episode of Darknet Diaries which tells the story of how some of these SIM swaps are done: https://darknetdiaries.com/transcript/112/
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by RobinL 4y ago
I'm currently on long term parental leave, and my perspective differs. Sabbaticals are for changing your perspective and developing in different ways from full time work. I feel like I properly have time for my kids because they&#x27
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by RobinL 4y ago
25 years ago my secondary school English teacher told us that he didn't read Dahl to his kids because of how it equated ugly and fat with bad. Every time I see this trope it reminds me: I think he was right. The books are wonderful i
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by RobinL 4y ago
If you're curious, I've written a FOSS record linkage library that executes everything as SQL. It supports multiple SQL backends including DuckDB and Spark for scale, and runs faster than most competitors because it's able t
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by RobinL 4y ago
Thanks - very interesting
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by RobinL 4y ago
I'd love to hear any real world experiences of anyone who's tried to run jobs that would usually require a spark cluster on a single machine with loads of cores and memory. How big can you go, and how does speed compare to Spark?
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by RobinL 4y ago
That's super useful, thanks. Could you expand on the 'Use dependency injection to avoid disk I/O in the test suite' point please - I'm not sure I understand what it means but it sounds interesting!
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by RobinL 4y ago
The tests are being run against small test datasets of 10s of rows rather than the real data that test whether the behaviour of transforms/joins etc. is as expected. You're right, this approach wouldn't be sensible if the te
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by RobinL 4y ago
You can know what the answer is against a small test dataset though. Obviously the challenge is ensuring it's representative, that you hit the edge cases of real data etc. But it's better than nothing
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by RobinL 4y ago
Try and write any complex SQL as a series of semantically meaningful CTEs. Test each part of the CTE pipeline with an in.parquet and an expected_out.parquet (or in.csv and out.csv if you have simple datatypes, so it works better with git)
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by RobinL 4y ago
See the last part of the blog post! There are numerous promising attempts to do this. The problem at the moment is that most are at quite an early stage and it's unclear which will become popular.
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2) seems very reasonable to me. as a Python user, I'd have done something similar using the Python duckdb library (i.e. steering clear of any heavyweight tools)
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I'd advocate starting as simple as possible. It's very context specific, but one very simple architecture to consider if seeing if duckdb can handle your data (maybe on quite a large machine). For larger data, i'm a fan of w
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by RobinL 4y ago
Absolutely agree. I guess this is part of the tension and tradeoffs here: lots more people understand SQL, but many of them don't come from a software engineering background. And historically it has been relatively hard to set up sim
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by RobinL 4y ago
Author here: All good points - I should have been more specific: I'm really talking here about the data transformation logic. I live in a world where raw data generally gets loaded into a data lake, and data engineering proceeds fro
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by RobinL 4y ago
Author here. Appreciate the feedback. I agree It's a tricky stylistic choice. I did think about it, and decided to go with it this time. The rationale was to avoid interrupting the flow with writing 'in my opinion', or &#
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by RobinL 4y ago
DuckDB is a no-dependency SQL engine that's available from multiple programming languages. A bit like SQLite but optimised for analytics. For instance, in Python, it can be installed using `pip install duckdb`. For things like unit te

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