RobinL

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by RobinL 2y ago
Apologies for possibly stupid question but where can you use it right now? Just on 'direct chat' on https://lmarena.ai/ or is there a better alternative? Or do you have early access?
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by RobinL 2y ago
They were doing web search before open ai/anthropic, so they historically had a (pretty decent) unique selling point. Once chat gpt added web browsing, I largely stopped using perplexity
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by RobinL 2y ago
If I was a billionaire I'd have humans do all these types of things. I can imagine AI would be useful to give me an unbiased/non sycophantic view.
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by RobinL 2y ago
A big reason I blog is that I find writing something down is essential to clarifying my thoughts. Once it's written down, I might as well put it online, and it has the added advantages that I can simply link to the material rather than
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by RobinL 2y ago
Thanks - having tried Co-Pilot again today after a 6-month Cursor hiatus, I think this is a good summary
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by RobinL 2y ago
Update: I have used co-pilot agent mode for a couple of hours today. It's definitely catching up with Cursor but not there yet. In particular: - Edits take quite a bit longer to apply, breaking flow - Autocomplete predictions (equiv.
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by RobinL 2y ago
Can anyone speak to weather it's worth going back to co-pilot from cursor. On the face of it $10 a month for unlimited messages looks compelling. Is it really unlimited? From these videos it's starting to look pretty similar to
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by RobinL 2y ago
Interesting You might find it amusing to compare it to: https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/timabdulla (Ref: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42857604 )
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by RobinL 2y ago
Whilst I had tried R1 before, I hadn't paid attention to how fast it was. I just tried some similar prompts and was pretty impressed with speed and quality. I think o3-mini was still a bit quicker though.
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by RobinL 2y ago
Wow - this is seriously fast (o3-mini), and my initial impressions are very favourable. I was asking it to layout quite a complex html form from a schema and it did a very good job. Looking at the comments on here and the benchmark results
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by RobinL 2y ago
Has anyone tried to link and dedupe the various datasets using a probabilistic linkage tool like Splink? https://moj-analytical-services.github.io/splink/ (Disclaimer: I am the lead author, but the tool is FOSS)
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by RobinL 2y ago
I also wish this was more widespread. I do it for my FOSS data linkage software here: https://moj-analytical-services.github.io/splink/topic_guide...
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by RobinL 2y ago
I'd also love to see some high quality, well researched information on this. For instance I recently saw this exchange: https://x.com/i/bookmarks?post_id=1881090543956222293 I'm generally a proponent of renew
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by RobinL 2y ago
There's a theory an economics that says that the more different prices a provider can charge the more of the surplus they capture (ie they can tilt that percentage towards the seller and away from the buyer). Of course, if they're
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by RobinL 2y ago
Schedule a call is a huge red flag to me because: - it implies differential pricing, meaning they will charge you as much as possible both now and in the future (when you may be locked in) - it usually obscures what the product actually doe
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by RobinL 2y ago
There are two components to the price of driving: 1. The congestion charge, if it exists 2. The opportunity cost of the time taken It's plausible to me that whilst total cars will go down (supply and demand) you may get more high inco
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by RobinL 2y ago
> It's impossible to improve performance when you have to go out to the DB anyway; That's not right. There are many queries that run far faster in duckdb/datafusion than (say) postgres, even with the overhead of pulling wh
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by RobinL 2y ago
I've only recently started with uv, but this is one thing it seems to solve nicely. I've tried to get into the mindset of only using uv for python stuff - and hence I haven't installed python using homebrew, only uv. You bas
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by RobinL 2y ago
You can use duckdb on a single machine. It's also indexless (or more accurately, you don't have to explicitly create indexes)
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AI probably won't replace me in 2025(robinlinacre.com)
3 points by RobinL 2y ago|2 comments
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by RobinL 2y ago
Stepping back a bit, having these on the road rather than cars or petrol scooters must be a big win even if they don't last as long as we'd like
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by RobinL 2y ago
I got several people wanting to send a courier last time I listed something on Facebook. Checking their pages, they were all from eastern Europe with no obvious connection to my city. Good to know the mechanics of the scam, I wondered wha
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by RobinL 2y ago
We're still using parquet. So we use the native duckdb format for intermediate processing (during pipeline execution) but the end results are saved out as parquet. This is partly because customers often read the data from other tools
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by RobinL 2y ago
Interesting. So what does that look like on disk? Possibly slightly naively I'm imagining a single massive file?
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by RobinL 2y ago
I submitted this because I thought it was a good, high effort post, but I must admit I was surprised by the conclusion. In my experience, admittedly on different workloads, duckdb is both faster and easier to use than spark, and requires
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Should you ditch Spark for DuckDB or Polars?(milescole.dev)
169 points by RobinL 2y ago|114 comments
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by RobinL 2y ago
My son loves openttd. Fun fact: the original transport tycoon was primarily written in assembly by Chris Sawyer
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by RobinL 2y ago
It's actually a fourth power law, not a linear relationship. So trucks are polynomially more damaging. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power_law
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by RobinL 2y ago
With apologies for the X link, here is an example from Suno which felt very musical to me: https://x.com/sunomusic/status/1857501332560818342 Here's another example on the Suno website: https://sun
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by RobinL 2y ago
Yeah, absolutely agree with that. Definitely has the potential to be particularly harmful in educational settings of users blindly trusting. I guess it's just like many tools, they can be used well or badly, and people need to learn h

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