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by RobinL 1y ago
https://x.com/sama/status/1899535387435086115?lang=en-GB It's personal taste, but this is significantly better than the last couple of fiction books I've read (which were both well reviewed). I think it&
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by RobinL 1y ago
For context thats's about equivalent to 100 transatlantic flights
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by RobinL 1y ago
Yes, you can. It's a relatively recent addition. The original commenter probably doesn't see much difference between copilot and Cursor because copilot has caught up quite a lot in the last couple months
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by RobinL 1y ago
Can you go the other way? (E.g. edit the above and turn it back into SQL string) I've used sqlglot to do this in the past, but doing it natively would be nice
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by RobinL 1y ago
Agree, definitely amazing feature. In the Python API you can get somewhere close with this kind of thing: input_data = duckdb.sql("SELECT * FROM read_parquet('...')") step_1 = duckdb.sql("SELECT ... FROM input_data
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by RobinL 1y ago
My experience is also that (in the uk at least) it can't be done accurately with openstreetmap data. For context, I've tried it! I've been working on a free library for geocoding UK addresses quickly and accurately. It come
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by RobinL 1y ago
There is a game called dragonbox algebra which I'm currently working through with my son and is an absolutely fantastic approach to this problem. Sadly its now part of a horrendous subscription service and is hard to access. I find i
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by RobinL 1y ago
Preface: I'm a yimby who wants to see far more building, especially building upwards in London, but also more general building elsewhere. That said, a 100 year wait for social housing in Westminster is not surprising, and not as bad as
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by RobinL 1y ago
Does anyone know how this pricing works? Supposing I have a classification prompt where I need the response to be a binary yes/no. I need one token of output, but reasoning will obviously add far more than 6 additional tokens. Is it
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by RobinL 1y ago
The referral is just because a non expert can't be sure. The cost of the referral is relatively small, but the cost of getting it wrong is large. Someone I know recently had a referral - it's pretty light touch, you just get a pr
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by RobinL 1y ago
As a big user of vega lite I think that's fair. I think it really shines when used by data vis experts, where charts need to be precise, such as in research and analysis contexts. For something like a simple a metrics dashboard I thi
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by RobinL 2y ago
I've had problems with pylance and auto complete on Cursor for months for (what I think is) the same reason - so I'm not sure the crackdown has only started in the last couple days
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by RobinL 2y ago
Interested in experiences switching back to VS Code from Cursor. I've recently (past couple weeks) been trying out copilot again on Vs code insiders, which has had agent mode for a while. My perception is that it's caught up a lo
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by RobinL 2y ago
To make matters worse, there's also litte evidence that the increases in spending on SEND provision have led to better outcomes. I can't help feeling like this is a vicious cycle - the lack of community facilities is causing great
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by RobinL 2y ago
- A FOSS Python package for record linkage and deduplication at scale called Splink: https://moj-analytical-services.github.io/splink/ - A library for fast, accurate matching (geocoding) of UK addresses that uses Splin
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by RobinL 2y ago
Agree, they write it off as: > Gemini 2.5 barely made a ripple in the broader tech conversation. But my sense (vibes from using it) is it's the very best model right now (though I have not tried the $200 a month exclusive openai off
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by RobinL 2y ago
It's very impressive. It feels like the text is a bit of a hack where they're somehow rendering the text separately and interpolating it into the image. Not always, I got it to render calligraphy with flourishes, but only for a
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by RobinL 2y ago
The problem is that people write addresses down in different ways (I'm in the UK) You will typically have a master/canonical list of addresses from an official source. In the UK that's Ordnance Survey's AddressBase. You
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by RobinL 2y ago
I appreciate this comment. I'm currently working hard on something seemly straightforward (address matching) and sometimes I feel demotivated because it feels like whatever progress I make, the bitter lesson will get me in the end. Rea
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by RobinL 2y ago
I agree. Bluey is a great show. As a dad it can either make you feel inadequate or motivate you to to better. You just have to accept no dad can be Bandit all the time, but try to be Bandit as much as possible.
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by RobinL 2y ago
I'm surprised at how poor this is at following a detailed prompt. It seems capable of generating a consistent style, and so in that sense quite useful. But if you want (say) a regional UK accent it's not even close. I also find i
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by RobinL 2y ago
Yeah I think that's fair, especially from the 'end consumer of the data' point of view, and doing things like row-level permissions. For the ETL side, where often whole-table access is good enough, I find Spark in particular
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by RobinL 2y ago
Ah nice - reading that made me feel good! Appreciate the feedback!
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by RobinL 2y ago
Yes - agree! I actually wrote a blog about this just two days ago: May be of interest to people who: - What to know what DuckDB is and why it's interesting - What's good about it - Why for orgs without huge data, we will hopefull
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Why DuckDB is my first choice for data processing(robinlinacre.com)
3 points by RobinL 2y ago|0 comments
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by RobinL 2y ago
But the same is true of gas, and in the UK at least they cost about the same per kWh of output heat (electricity is more expensive, but this is balanced out by the higher efficiency of the heat pump)
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by RobinL 2y ago
I've heard this several but don't really understand the rationale. Can't you just put in a bigger heat pump? Or top up an air to water with an air to air?
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UK homes install subsidised heat pumps at record level(bbc.co.uk)
23 points by RobinL 2y ago|23 comments
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by RobinL 2y ago
Thank you!
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by RobinL 2y ago
This sounds great - would love to hear a little more about the prompts. Are you literally just asking 'write me a context.md that explains how feature x works' or something like that?

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