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by joshuabaker2 1y ago
You can convert a PyTorch model to an ONNX model that can use CoreML (or in some cases just convert it to a CoreML model directly)
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by joshuabaker2 1y ago
I was surprised it pinged gpt-4o. I was expecting it to use something like https://github.com/apple/ml-fastvlm (obviously cost may have been a factor there), but I can see how the direction he chose would make it more
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by joshuabaker2 2y ago
Hi Boris, love working with Claude! I do have a question—is there a plan to have Claude 3.5 Sonnet (or even 3.7!) made available on ca-central-1 for Amazon Bedrock anytime soon? My company is based in Canada and we deal with customer inform
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by joshuabaker2 3y ago
Mortgages in Canada are different than mortgages in the US in that they are full recourse. If the sale price during foreclosure doesn’t cover the costs, the banks can go after you personally for the balance. So you’d have to either a) leave
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by joshuabaker2 3y ago
Yes this is accurate. I work at a lender that operated in both Canada and the US and the credit bureau integrations were with totally different companies and had different APIs (even for Equifax on both sides of the border)
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by joshuabaker2 3y ago
Yes, but it’s partly the government’s fault. There’s literally no way for mortgage lenders to pull your tax records in order to verify income. There used to be some third party services to connect to the CRA but they got shut down and repla
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by joshuabaker2 3y ago
Predictability, speed, cheap fuel, a lack of understanding of climate change, etc. We also used to have windmills to grind grain and then switched over to mills that use electricity or fossil fuels. But of course, windmills to generate elec
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by joshuabaker2 3y ago
I did! He's awesome. I was on the software side of things and he was the mechanical but our paths crossed quite frequently.
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by joshuabaker2 3y ago
This looks amazing! Wind power is totally underutilized in the shipping industry, I've been waiting for something like this for ages. I used to be part of a team back in university making autonomous sailboats [1] and one of the things
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by joshuabaker2 4y ago
The first thing I always do when I go into any new editor is set up the "Select All Instances of highlighted word". So like how there is cmd-d for the next occurrence, I also like having a shortcut to select _all_ occurrences. Wou
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by joshuabaker2 4y ago
This looks very cool, would love to see something like this take off - boilerplate code is such a hassle to stand up for each new project. Does this work with existing hand-made repos or is it mostly intended to work with projects that it g
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by joshuabaker2 4y ago
Solid article. Is it fair to say that the "data services" layer is essentially a cache sitting in front of the database, or am I misunderstanding it's function?
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Why don't we take risks anymore?(primordialstartup.substack.com)
1 points by joshuabaker2 4y ago|0 comments
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An unusually detailed guide to building a mortgage startup in Canada(primordialstartup.substack.com)
2 points by joshuabaker2 4y ago|0 comments
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by joshuabaker2 5y ago
I met one of my co-founders (we are now a Series A startup) originally via LinkedIn, and together we met our third co-founder also via LinkedIn. The first co-founder and I are in the same city, but the third one was in a different country -
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by joshuabaker2 5y ago
Fraction | Frontend, Backend Engineers and Full Stack Developers | Full-Time | Vancouver, BC or Berkeley, CA | Onsite, Hybrid, or 100% Remote (your preference) Looking for a new engineering position but dreading leetcode-style questions? Ha
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by joshuabaker2 5y ago
Fraction | Senior Software Engineer | Remote/Onsite | US/Canada | Full-time | https://fraction.is At Fraction, we are building a system to completely modernize home equity lending in the fintech space. In addition to b
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by joshuabaker2 6y ago
Fraction ( https://fractionrealestate.co ) | Full Stack Engineer | Vancouver, Canada (but WFH during COVID) | Full Time Fraction is building a world-class platform for enabling homeowners to manage & access their home equity i
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Understanding the Canadian Government’s “Shared Equity Mortgages”(medium.com)
2 points by joshuabaker2 8y ago|0 comments
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It's Time to Disrupt Housing(medium.com)
5 points by joshuabaker2 8y ago|1 comments
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by joshuabaker2 8y ago
I noticed that too. Maybe it's related to the maintenance NPM is currently doing? https://status.npmjs.org/
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UBC Autonomous Sailboat Rescued at Sea After a Year Without Contact(cbc.ca)
1 points by joshuabaker2 9y ago|0 comments