danofsteel32

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by danofsteel32 1mo ago
It’s fascinating to think about what role AI will play in corporations. I think it’ll take decades to fully play out. I’m working through an exploration of how AI will change the Coasean idea of “The Firm” on my site https://chai
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by danofsteel32 1mo ago
I like how Tyler Cowen puts it: "This is the worst they will ever be". And some people are still stuck on what AI was capable of when GPT-3.5 was SOTA. They don't realize how much they've improved in ~4 years. Even if th
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by danofsteel32 2mo ago
I tried brainstorming what an agent harness for writers would look like. https://chainofbranches.com/conversations/2/branches/20/ I’m not convinced it’s possible. A good nights sleep and a notepad in a q
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by danofsteel32 2mo ago
I use the shell script pattern. In bash the case statement at the bottom of your example can be replaced with this though: “${@:-default}” || usage
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by danofsteel32 2mo ago
Yes exe.dev is the first cloud provider I actually enjoy using. It's easy to manage with just ssh and they give me real disks. The lack of real (EBS is still networked) persistent disks on ec2 instances causes me a lot of pain at $WORK
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by danofsteel32 2mo ago
This is a really ambitious and difficult idea. It would be awesome if they can pull it off! Since most people live near a coast this could power more than just data centers.
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by danofsteel32 2mo ago
I recently “fixed” my bash history since the default experience when using multiple terminals sucks. https://dandavis.dev/the-bash-history-i-always-wanted.html I also use fzf to search my history I believe you just need so
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by danofsteel32 3mo ago
I’m currently using sunshine and moonlight for remote access to ros2 development VMs with passed through GPUs. We needed an old version of Ubuntu hence the VM. And gpu pass through is needed for gazebo simulations. I started with RDP but th
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by danofsteel32 3mo ago
This is a little pedantic but the pictures seem to show failing support columns not beams. Beams are horizontal and columns are vertical.
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by danofsteel32 1y ago
GStreamer: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/ is written in GObject which enabled some great tooling like gst-inspect-1.0: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/tools/gst-in...
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by danofsteel32 1y ago
This. You can get very far with just dataclasses, enums, and functions. I use dataclasses like I would use structs in C or go.
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by danofsteel32 1y ago
Incus is great when developing ansible playbooks. The main benefit for me over docker/podman is systemd works out of the box in incus containers.
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by danofsteel32 2y ago
I recently wrote a post for a coworker who asked the exact same question. https://dandavis.dev/llm-knowledge-dump.html
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by danofsteel32 2y ago
I’ve had a similar experience extracting transactions from my PDF bank statements [1]. GPT-4o and GPT-4o-mini perform as well the janky regex parser I wrote a few years ago. The fact that they can zero shot the problem makes me think there’
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by danofsteel32 2y ago
The combat system in Civ4 was deeper than you think. Stack composition, terrain, and positioning are crucial in MP games. This write-up [1] from a famous MP game where a 3v1 invasion was repelled by superior play shows how good the system w
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by danofsteel32 3y ago
I've been using OpenHermes-2.5 [0] and NeuralHermes [1] which are both finetunes of the Mistral7B base model. The only objective test prompting I do is asking the models to generate a django timeclock/timesheets app. In this test
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by danofsteel32 3y ago
I have an odd usecase that I've yet to find a good solution to: Reading construction documents (Blueprints are always PDF). I've had much better luck parsing DXF (AutoCAD) files but it's not always easy to get an architect to
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by danofsteel32 3y ago
I am a custom home builder and we do this. It’s very handy when the drywallers cover up an outlet or switch.
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by danofsteel32 4y ago
Egg laying chickens (layers) are very different from meat chickens (broilers). Layers have been bred to be lean and put their calorie surplus into producing eggs. Broilers have been bred to pack on weight as quickly and efficiently as possi
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by danofsteel32 4y ago
The Open Library project https://openlibrary.org/developers has a free ISBN API. I used it along with tesseract OCR and a webcam to build a database of my physical books (218 total). I never had any rate limiting issues.