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by RobinL 2y ago
Beautiful, I love it!
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by RobinL 2y ago
The article provides zero insight beyond anecodes. The fact a a specialist ebike repair company sees lots of broken ebikes tells you practically nothing about the frequency of problems. The anecdote about 5 failures in a warranty period s
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by RobinL 2y ago
You may know this already but the postgres extension[1] may help: If I understand it correctly, when you use it it: - Pulls the minimal data required (inferred from the query) from postgres into duckdb - Executes your query using duckdb exe
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by RobinL 2y ago
Feels like there could be anti fake news applications. It's pretty common for photos to be recycled and purported to be of current events, when what they actually show is far away both in distance and time
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by RobinL 2y ago
In Britain, 'fired' usually implies a problem with individual performance whereas ,'made redundant' could be part of corporate restructuring. 'let go' is more ambiguous
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Ask HN: Will progress on LLMs carry over to self driving?
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by RobinL 2y ago
I don't understand why the government don't do more to support these kind of tariffs that incentive demand shifting.. it seems such a powerful way to make the grid greener without huge infrastructure projects
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by RobinL 3y ago
Oh - nice, thanks - so it looks like the interactive window (which is effectivey the same as the output in a jupyter notebook) is also possible, but not (yet) 'properly'/'officially' supported https://git
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by RobinL 3y ago
I'm specifically referring to: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/python/jupyter-support-py The support for R looks a bit different (to me at least?): https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/l
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by RobinL 3y ago
It looks like, as far as I can tell, VS Code doesn't support the interactive window for working in R, which was a bit of a surprise to me when i looked it up. The python interactive window has pretty much fully replaced my use of jupyt
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by RobinL 3y ago
Lead author here! Nice surprise to see Splink being posted here. Readers may be also interested in this recent blog post which delves into the performance of Splink in more depth: https://www.robinlinacre.com/fast_deduplic
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by RobinL 3y ago
In addition, I guess a public defender is likely to work harder in a case where they believe the client is innocent. This interpretation of 'eleven magic words' also suggests it matters: https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2
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by RobinL 3y ago
I value how useful I am to the world far more highly than how profitable I am to my employer. The primary reason I love open source is that it maximises how useful my work can be to others. An important secondary consideration is paying it
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by RobinL 3y ago
Amazing work as always. Is it just me who sees diagonal lines on the first interactive graphic? Are they a bug? They appear after a little while, fade out, then reappear https://gist.github.com/RobinL/aa4a5e14d35e61e4
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by RobinL 3y ago
I wrote an article a while back about why I think it's the best default choice for vis in Python: https://www.robinlinacre.com/backing_vega_lite/
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by RobinL 3y ago
To save to an image in Altair, it's just chart.save("myimage.png"). This works much better since version 5 (the syntax is the same but the dependencies are less fiddly)
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by RobinL 3y ago
Check out suni.ai, especially outputs from the new v3 model released a couple days back. The quality seems to have gone way beyond background music. E.g https://app.suno.ai/song/efc4e137-3464-49dc-9409-445b9943e3b...
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by RobinL 3y ago
I wonder if th result changes if you put a high quality medical reference in context. Feels like there might be an opportunity for someone to try and cram as much medical knowledge as possible in 1m tokens and use the new Gemini model.
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by RobinL 3y ago
For me, it's about having a job I enjoy and feel like I'm good at. Which would apply to most of the jobs I've done. So in those circumstances I'd just get a new job, there are lots of roles and industries that interest
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by RobinL 3y ago
I think this is subjective. I get a sense of purpose from my job. I don't feel like 'just' a labourer, I feel like by working I'm contributing to society and helping others. I don't want infinite leisure, I want t
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by RobinL 3y ago
Observable is such an incredible, powerful and enjoyable tool. I use it heavily, including to power my blog. I love it, but I've always had a slight concern about needing to rely on the Observable notebook website. So this has really
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by RobinL 3y ago
I generated the lyrics using ChatGPT 4 and the suno model attempts to follow them. It generally does a good job, but I have noticed it's fairly common in a second chorus for it to ignore the direction and instead use the same lyrics as
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by RobinL 3y ago
I don't have any special insight into how it works, but I suspect it is largely synthesizing audio from scratch. The more I've thought about it, the task of generating music feels very similar to the task of text-to-speech with
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by RobinL 3y ago
Here is a silly song I generated using suno.ai, which I have found to be incredibly impressive (at least, a small percentage of its outputs are very good, most are bad). I think it's good enough that most humans wouldn't realise
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by RobinL 3y ago
A bit unclear what the status of this is given https://www.forms.service.gov.uk/ , which I believe is a later development
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by RobinL 3y ago
Yes. This is actually (as far as I know) by far the most popular UK gov repo on GitHub in terms of number of stars - kudos to the devs!
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Super-fast deduplication of large datasets using Splink and DuckDB(robinlinacre.com)
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Why Probabilistic Linkage Is More Accurate Than Fuzzy Matching for Data Deduping(robinlinacre.com)
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by RobinL 3y ago
Fellow data engineer here. I started mine because I felt I was making the same arguments again and again at work, often ineffectively. I found that by taking time to collect my thoughts and write them down made them clearer and more persua
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To put it in context, the current price of electricity from Octopus on a new contract is about 30p/kWh. These high prices are a historical anomaly due to the high price of gas in Europe, but still, I think it's relevant context. I

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