RobinL

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by RobinL 3mo ago
I get them occasionally - maybe every couple of months or so - and I have nothing like that sort of following. But I do have a 'say thanks' page on my blog rather than the more usual 'buy me a coffee'. Perhaps people fee
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by RobinL 4mo ago
Nice, I recently found something like this was possible too. Gpt-5.5 one shotted the basic game, but then I added some ai generated graphics/sounds/music and asked it to write then up. It's a vocab building game, playable her
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by RobinL 4mo ago
Yes, but it's important to note that just because a lot of aid is ineffective doesn't mean it all is. If you want to give to very poor people and be confident most (85%+) actually gets to them I encourage you to take a look at h
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by RobinL 4mo ago
$20 chatgpt pro plan gives pretty generous usage both of codex, general chat
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by RobinL 4mo ago
Interesting. I don't have to use PowerPoint much, but I hate it when I do. I don't want the llm to write the words but I do want it to make things look nice. So does this work well now?
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Optimising DuckDB performance on large EC2 instances(robinlinacre.com)
2 points by RobinL 4mo ago|0 comments
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AI, open code and vulnerability risk in the public sector (UK)(gov.uk)
5 points by RobinL 5mo ago|0 comments
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by RobinL 5mo ago
I'm been impressed when testing this model today, but it still can't consistently adhere to the following prompt: make me an image of a pizza split into 10 equal slices with space in between the them, to help teach fractions to a
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Letterpaths – free software for teaching cursive writing(robinlinacre.com)
2 points by RobinL 5mo ago|0 comments
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by RobinL 5mo ago
Please retain vega lite speech as an option! It's incredible useful because you can tweak the chart or change it completely at a later date using e.g. the vega lite editor.
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by RobinL 5mo ago
Thanks, interesting. Does this make it more surprising that the other benchmarks have improved? I'm not sure I understand the benchmarks well enough - but I'm wondering whether with agentic workflows it's possible to get awa
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by RobinL 5mo ago
Could this be because they've found the 1m context uneconomical (ie costs too much to serve, or burns through users quota too quickly causing complaints), and so they're no longer targeting it as a goal
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by RobinL 5mo ago
There's a section in the docs of our FOSS record linkage software that covers this: https://moj-analytical-services.github.io/splink/topic_guide...
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by RobinL 6mo ago
The letters are based on how they're formed in the UK primary school curriculum. Each letter is a json that defines the bezier curves according to a schema. They were created by starting by drawing the letters freehand, yielding essent
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by RobinL 6mo ago
Thank you! Noticed you're interested in similar areas. I've also previously done some work on maths problem generation. Similar to letterpaths, the core lib can then be used to power games/other educational apps. As I&#x2
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by RobinL 6mo ago
letterpaths ( https://github.com/RobinL/letterpaths ), a FOSS typescript library that can power cursive handwriting/educational apps for kids. The idea is that it provides all the geometry to enables games like thes
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by RobinL 6mo ago
I work on an open source record linkage library called Splink. The list of features I want to add has always been far larger than the time I have. I enjoy working with LLMs because they have enabled me to work through my backlog much fast
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by RobinL 6mo ago
5.4 is great. I use it for python professionally and for typescript/front-end games and educational apps recreationally. In my experience it's roughly as good as opus, just a lot cheaper. It's amazing how much usage you get
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by RobinL 6mo ago
I love this! Thanks for the detailed response, super interesting
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by RobinL 6mo ago
Wow, that's big! I'm curious, how much does the 600kWh battery cost nowadays? Amazing that the tech has got to a point this is even possible
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by RobinL 6mo ago
It's also widely misunderstood. Just because the spot price of electricity is set by the price of gas doesn’t mean the consumer pays that price for all of their electricity. A lot of wind and solar are on Contracts for Difference. Tha
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by RobinL 6mo ago
Why would additional storage make a significant difference to the price of gas?
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Country Quiz(rupertlinacre.com)
1 points by RobinL 6mo ago|0 comments
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by RobinL 6mo ago
For me, it's beyond doubt these tools are an essential skill in any SWE's toolkit. By which I mean, knowing their capabilities, how they're valuable and when to use them (and when not to). As with any other skill, if you can
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by RobinL 6mo ago
This is great! Would be nice if it could hyperlink from the nodes directly to the khan academy modules/learning materials
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by RobinL 7mo ago
One thing missing but important to understand is the energy embodied in buying 'stuff'. At a very rough approximation, the cost of stuff, especially consumer goods manufactured cheaply, is quite a high percentage energy. When you
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by RobinL 7mo ago
Certainly the initial versions were post processing rather than native. I'd be interested to know if that has changed on subsequent releases.
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Earth's heat to power 10k homes in renewable energy first for UK(bbc.co.uk)
10 points by RobinL 7mo ago|1 comments
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by RobinL 7mo ago
Or possibly 'men find the algorithmic/consumption based platforms relatively more appealing' and so were quicker to leave
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by RobinL 8mo ago
Love this! Would be super interested in any details the author could share on the data engineering needed to make this work. The vis is super impressive but I suspect the data is the harder thing to get working.

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