erikwiffin

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by erikwiffin 10d ago
Even more un-fathomable, Mozilla's CTO has been writing a substack with the underlying theme of "if the AI isn't running on your hardware, you don't own it" https://newsletter.ownersnotrenters.com/
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by erikwiffin 2mo ago
SlimeBallBench was not me, but it is cool! and at least partially what inspired me to build my own. Mine is less fun, but hopefully more useful https://erikwiffin.github.io/memory-reasoning-eval/ Selling to labs is mor
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by erikwiffin 2mo ago
I've developed a benchmark that I think should be resistant to saturation, is easily verifiable, and anecdotally correlates with desirable behavior (ability to not get confused while generating text with state). I think it's inter
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by erikwiffin 2mo ago
I actually started with it as a PWA, but ended up rewriting it in react-native. I wanted a couple features (heart rate monitor, lock screen integration) that afaik don't work with PWAs.
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by erikwiffin 2mo ago
Ugh, that happened to me too. But instead of researching other apps and waiting for them to decide to go premium too, I built my own workout app. Been using it for a couple months now and it's working great, but the hassle of publishin
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SlimeBallBench · AI models play slime soccer(slimeballbench.com)
2 points by erikwiffin 3mo ago|0 comments
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by erikwiffin 3mo ago
As a diver, I'd love to use this and show my friends, but it's a bit hard to get to actual results for a location. Particularly for sharing, if the URL changed to something like `/diving/location/{lat},{lng}`, it wo
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by erikwiffin 8mo ago
Location: USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, Typescript Résumé/CV: https://erik.wiffin.com/ Email: erik.wiffin@gmail.com Fractional Tech Lead with 17 years of tech industry ex
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by erikwiffin 4y ago
When I first moved into management, I wrote an article about how my direct reports could get more value out of our 1:1s. I'd probably write something different now, but the broad strokes remain true. https://erik.wiffin.com&
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Only 16% of people understand what the metaverse is(deptagency.com)
1 points by erikwiffin 4y ago|0 comments
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by erikwiffin 5y ago
This is asking a lot from you, but in your situation, I think your goal should be to build up enough of a relationship with your manager that you feel comfortable telling them that, or realize that that's never going to happen at your
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How to get the most out of your 1:1s(erik.wiffin.com)
288 points by erikwiffin 5y ago|208 comments
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by erikwiffin 5y ago
Ironically, the feature that keeps me from using Goodreads is that I want it to be less social. Do you have the option for private bookshelves?
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by erikwiffin 5y ago
If Bob had a plan for doing the work that didn't involve Alice's library, there's a good chance he would have just jumped straight in to implementation without talking to anyone, and maybe the library wouldn't have come
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by erikwiffin 5y ago
I've always done planning poker with the Fibonacci sequence - 1, 2, 3, 5, 8. The idea being that the more complicated the task, the harder it is to estimate accurately.
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by erikwiffin 5y ago
I think there's value in that debate (within reason) even as a developer. If Alice thinks a task is worth 5, and Bob thinks it's worth 8, then there's a good chance one of them knows something the other does not. Is Bob aware
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by erikwiffin 5y ago
I made this transition recently, and felt compelled to write about it. https://erik.wiffin.com/posts/missing-manual-professionalism... One of the things I noticed is that all of the "how to be a good developer&quo
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by erikwiffin 7y ago
It may be the worst domain name ever, but the site only exists because I thought that using "0" as a subdomain was a neat trick, and worked back from there to figure out what to do with it. FWIW - the only way I can ever find my
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by erikwiffin 7y ago
Thanks for the suggestion. I've updated the text.
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The status of the biggest API in healthcare(rockhealth.com)
6 points by erikwiffin 10y ago|3 comments
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by erikwiffin 11y ago
That's interesting, I had no idea. There's probably a way more detailed Rosetta Code style project that could cover all these nuances, but for a single page demo, there's only so much detail I can get into before it would be
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by erikwiffin 11y ago
Oh Excel... I'd love to see that up on the site, mind sending me a pull request? https://github.com/erikwiffin/0.30000000000000004
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by erikwiffin 11y ago
That's 90% of the reason this site exists.
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by erikwiffin 11y ago
That's valid, but I was going for an ELI5 style explanation of a concept that surprised and confused me at the time. If you want to provide a better one, I'm happy to merge any pull requests.
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Interoperable APIs Can Enable Health IT Innovation(annemergmed.com)
8 points by erikwiffin 11y ago|0 comments
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by erikwiffin 11y ago
The expression comes from a measurement of visual acuity, the correct notation would be 20/20.
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by erikwiffin 12y ago
I think you're misunderstanding what "10x developer" is supposed to mean. The impression I've gotten is that they are considered to be 10 times as productive because of the work they don't do. They write code that
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by erikwiffin 12y ago
Research Square - Durham, North Carolina and remote - www.researchsquare.com # About Us Research Square (est. 2004) helps researchers succeed through our world-class technology enabled services. We are home to the American Journal Experts,
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by erikwiffin 12y ago
Not just alcohol. An interesting observation in An Economist Gets Lunch (one of my favorite books on food) is that Prohibition is responsible for putting many great restaurants of the era out of business (restaurants make money on alcohol).
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by erikwiffin 12y ago
A for loop seems like a weird choice for "idiomatic underscore.js". _.each(_.range(1, 100), function (i) { console.log( _.chain(["Fizz", "Buzz"]) .zip(_.map([3, 5], function(n) { return i%n;

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