The_Amp_Walrus

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Show HN: A personal feed that turns videos/podcasts/blogs into Twitter-y threads(feed.mattsegal.com.au)
1 points by The_Amp_Walrus 8mo ago|0 comments
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Industrial Policy for Tech Workers(inflectionpoints.work)
2 points by The_Amp_Walrus 11mo ago|0 comments
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by The_Amp_Walrus 1y ago
Location: Melbourne, Australia Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: AI/LLMs, Django, FastAPI, Pandas, React/TypeScript, AWS, Terraform, Postgres Résumé/CV: https://mattsegal.github.io/resume/
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by The_Amp_Walrus 1y ago
a school is an institution that teaches people your definition of "actually a school" seems to arbitrarily include a lot of reporting and paperwork and commerce that have nothing to do with the bit where you teach people stuff
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by The_Amp_Walrus 1y ago
you're conflating "not having an overwhelming negative reaction to it" with "never feel anything about it" you can know something is bad and act accordingly without having a disordered and painful relationship with
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by The_Amp_Walrus 2y ago
On this topic I really enjoyed reading "Autism as a disorder of dimensionality" https://opentheory.net/2023/05/autism-as-a-disorder-of-dimen... I'm just a casual reader I can't vouch for the ve
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by The_Amp_Walrus 2y ago
Location: Melbourne, Australia Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Django, FastAPI, Pandas, React, AWS, Terraform, Postgres, LLMs Résumé/CV: https://mattsegal.github.io/resume/ Email: mattdsegal@gmai
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by The_Amp_Walrus 2y ago
I might be wrong about this but doesn't ollama do some work to ensure the model runs efficiently given your hardware? Like choosing between how much gpu memory to consume so you don't oom. Does llama.cpp do that for you with zero
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by The_Amp_Walrus 2y ago
Location: Melbourne, Australia Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Django, FastAPI, Pandas, React, AWS, Terraform, Postgres, LLMs Résumé/CV: https://mattsegal.github.io/resume/ Email: mattdsegal@gmai
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by The_Amp_Walrus 2y ago
I did a more detailed yt video on django query optimisation (mostly for ppl new to the framework) for those interested https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uoI6pvuvYs
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Teeny Tiny GPT-4 CLI Wrapper(github.com)
1 points by The_Amp_Walrus 3y ago|1 comments
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by The_Amp_Walrus 3y ago
I've been using this for the last few weeks and it's been a lot of fun, both for work and just screwing around. Curious if there are any other tiny jobs or workflows people have been using LLMs for (how do I do this bash command,
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by The_Amp_Walrus 3y ago
Zen Buddhism reference: A monk asked Zhaozhou, 'Does even a dog have Buddha Nature?'
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by The_Amp_Walrus 3y ago
I enjoyed this course https://youtu.be/2pWv7GOvuf0?si=DKkhPXQmVjA3ySIn
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by The_Amp_Walrus 3y ago
Anika Legal | Melbourne, Australia | ONSITE (~2 days in office) | https://www.anikalegal.com/ We provide free, online legal assistance to people who can’t access it otherwise (in Victoria). Anika provides this help to the c
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by The_Amp_Walrus 3y ago
why does employer not say "dear whoever, this employee is clearly an idiot, and whatever they say on their private twitter does not represent our views" seems easier than firing someone
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by The_Amp_Walrus 4y ago
is there an implicit assumption that we're operating on the same domain here for the frontend and backend I'm not sure that it's so easily handled if you're working from www.foo.com and api.foo.com
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by The_Amp_Walrus 4y ago
Also 'easy' to model as a lookup table containing all possible solutions.
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by The_Amp_Walrus 4y ago
You haven't made it clear why the author should take an economics class - what are they doing wrong or what money are they leaving on the table?
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Bitcoin is a risk asset, not a reserve currency(brettongoods.substack.com)
5 points by The_Amp_Walrus 4y ago|0 comments
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by The_Amp_Walrus 4y ago
> as soon as we get more efficient things, we just consume more That doesn't seem to be true in terms of C02 output https://www.google.com/search?q=us+carbon+emissions+per+capi...
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by The_Amp_Walrus 4y ago
Nand 2 Tetris: https://www.nand2tetris.org/ In which you, more or less, build a computer from scratch. The course takes you through 12 projects, about 1 week each, where you incrementally build: a CPU a RAM chip a full von
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by The_Amp_Walrus 4y ago
I cannot get it to search - Chrome on Windows type in query to search bar, press enter, nothing happens no network request gets sent no console logs
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by The_Amp_Walrus 4y ago
Descript maybe
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by The_Amp_Walrus 4y ago
Can you explain why it's a mistake in this particular case?
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by The_Amp_Walrus 4y ago
> it's extremely hard to build software teams and manage their performance in permanent government roles this problem should be solved by making it not-hard to build the teams etc, not by throwing 10s of millions of dollars at vampi
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by The_Amp_Walrus 4y ago
I did a code test for my 2nd job where they had a simple Django project setup with, iirc, a bug and a performance issue and you would sit with a dev and work through it to fix them both. They'd answer framework specific questions (I di
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by The_Amp_Walrus 4y ago
Would you add any categories to this list, or did you think the tools recommended within the categories were lacking? - Uptime monitoring - Error reporting - Log aggregation - Performance monitoring
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by The_Amp_Walrus 4y ago
good advice. it was like a bit of a YOLO fix, but as you noticed pretty low volume/small scale stuff
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by The_Amp_Walrus 4y ago
nice one liner is that any file modified in the last 20 minutes on any machine in hosts.txt containing the word error?

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