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by RobinL 1y ago
Misleading headline: > she would nominate Trump for the award if he was successful in getting Putin to end his war and give back all the territory his forces took from Ukraine in the conflict So the meaning of the comment is actually the
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by RobinL 1y ago
Hypothesis: to the average user this will feel like a much greater jump in capability then to the average HNer, because most users were not using the model selector. So it'll be more successful than the benchmarks suggest.
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by RobinL 1y ago
Totally agree. At the moment I find that frontier LLMs are able to solve most of the problems I throw at them given enough context. Most of my time is spent working out what context they're missing when they fail. So the thing that
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by RobinL 1y ago
Because you're artificially favouring one specific industry, at a cost to all other industries. And because the implication of your argument is we should never tax anything because that's a benefit to both the consumer and the bus
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by RobinL 1y ago
It's just supply and demand. It makes working in these industries relatively more attractive, increasing supply of labour and therefore reducing price of labour. So restaurant owners capture some of the benefits
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by RobinL 1y ago
This looks great. I love the idea behind notebooks and for a long time it was my favourite environment to program in. But slowly I stopped using them because it never quite felt like the code was entirely mine, and alternatives became easie
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by RobinL 1y ago
A fuzzy matching community extension for duckdb: https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink_udfs And I've been vibe coding some maths educational tools and games for (my) 6yo: https://rupertlinac
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by RobinL 1y ago
I have had similar experiences to OP. All of these apps (mostly maths learning, but also the bus one) were coded using a mix of copilot and Gemini CLI: https://rupertlinacre.com/ I'm probably capable of building all of
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by RobinL 1y ago
This feels a bit underwhelming to me - Perplexity Comet feels more immediately compelling as new paradigm of a natural way of using LLMs within a browser. But perhaps I'm being short-sighted
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Scientists reverse Parkinson's symptoms in mice – Could humans be next?(sciencedaily.com)
2 points by RobinL 1y ago|0 comments
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by RobinL 1y ago
The problem is that code often takes as long to review as to write, and AI potentially reduces the quality bar to pull requests. So maintainers have a problem of lots of low quality PRs that take time to reject
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by RobinL 1y ago
This is what it says in the supposed system prompt see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44517453
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Comet Browser by Perplexity(comet.perplexity.ai)
36 points by RobinL 1y ago|19 comments
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by RobinL 1y ago
There are many useful applications of libpostal, and it's an impressive library, but one I would caution against is for the purpose of address matching, at least as the 'primary' approach. The problem is the hardest to parse
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The Small Data Showdown '25: Is It Time to Ditch Spark Yet?(milescole.dev)
4 points by RobinL 1y ago|0 comments
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An Interactive Introduction to Probabilistic Data Linkage/Deduplication(robinlinacre.com)
1 points by RobinL 1y ago|0 comments
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by RobinL 1y ago
This is why unlimited plans are always revoked eventually - a small fraction of users can be responsible for huge costs (Amazon's unlimited file backup service is another good example). Also whilst in general I don't think there&
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by RobinL 1y ago
Writing a blog. Many of my posts are things I've learnt at work, or arguments I've failed to make it meetings. By writing it down, I can pin down the argument better and share my thoughts in advance.
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by RobinL 1y ago
Thanks - appreciate the kind words!
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by RobinL 1y ago
I'm working on a free high performance address matching (geocoding) library. As it turns out I blogged about it just today: https://www.robinlinacre.com/address_matching/
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Building Accurate Address Matching Systems(robinlinacre.com)
2 points by RobinL 1y ago|0 comments
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by RobinL 1y ago
> "the video game people model it differently because they're doing different analysis, and if you unify the base layer to support everybody's type of analysis, it's not going to change that there's still a bunch
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by RobinL 1y ago
Codex also had this feeling to me, it's like a control centre for a repo, but it's easy to imagine that being the whole computer. There's a kind of inversion in how you do things: e.g. rather than navigating to settings until
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by RobinL 1y ago
When hiring, I would very much like to hire people who have figured out how to learn things for themselves using whatever techniques work for them, and don't need nannying. So I'm perfectly happy with a system of higher education
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by RobinL 1y ago
I've been experimenting with whether I can use LLMs to produce interactive maths explainers for kids. There are a few examples here: https://rupertlinacre.com/ Unless I'm missing something, it's amazing how
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Putting Scaffolding Around Vibe Coding to Build More Complex Apps(robinlinacre.com)
3 points by RobinL 1y ago|0 comments
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AI Will Change What It Is to Be Human. Are We Ready?(thefp.com)
1 points by RobinL 1y ago|0 comments
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by RobinL 1y ago
I agree that on the face of it this is extremely useful. I tried using it for multiple libraries and it was a complete failure though, it failed to crawl fairly standard mkdocs and sphynx sites. I guess it's better for the 'built
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by RobinL 1y ago
Is the key here that with Cline, it's passing huge amounts of the code into context, unlike Cursor? So in some sense it's not surprising it does a better job, because it's executing much more expensive API calls to the LLM p
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by RobinL 1y ago
How long ago was that? 6 months ago I switched from VS Code to Cursor, which at the time was FAR superior to Copilot. Around a month ago I switched back to VS Code, and found there's not much difference any more. Autocomplete in VS

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