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by mmargenot 1y ago
I like the idea of self-hostability, but not having to think about the deployment of the frontend piece has been a huge accelerant for me, someone who typically thinks only of ML and backend components.
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by mmargenot 1y ago
You can also run for a charity by raising sufficient money for a cause that sponsors you.
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by mmargenot 1y ago
`outlines` ( https://github.com/dottxt-ai/outlines ) is very good and supported by vLLM as a backend structured output provider ( https://docs.vllm.ai/en/v0.8.2/features/structured_outputs.h
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by mmargenot 1y ago
Executing on meaningful knowledge work also might require many different paths, depending on the context and the environment. To me it's more about the method of inquiry and how you begin than it is the specific content. Sure, more ind
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by mmargenot 1y ago
It's weird to read this from zettelkasten.de, given that the method is precisely about cultivating such a graph of knowledge. "Knowing enough to begin" seems to me to be the express purpose of writing and maintaining a zettel
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by mmargenot 1y ago
> You have to remember EVERYTHING. Only then you can perform the cognitive tasks necessary to perform meaningful knowledge work. You don't have to remember everything. You have to remember enough entry points and the shape of what f
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by mmargenot 1y ago
The pools can be different based on the US state and the type of insurance based on the location where the insurer is doing business. For a region where a major dangerous weather event is a certainty on a yearly basis, I (a layman in insura
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by mmargenot 1y ago
Fundamentally the goal of an insurance company is to pool risk and distribute it so that catastrophic events can be covered. These areas have too much risk (and certainty in the occurrence of catastrophic events) for the pooling to be viabl
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by mmargenot 1y ago
Do foundation model companies need to license these books or simply purchase them going forward?
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by mmargenot 1y ago
For better or for worse, AI enables more, faster software development. A lot of that is garbage, but quantity has a quality all its own. If you look at, e.g. this clearly vibe-coded app about vibe coding [ https://www.viberank.app
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by mmargenot 1y ago
There's enough solid FOSS tooling out there between vLLM and Qwen3 Apache 2.0 models that you can get a pretty good assistant system running locally. That's still in the software creation domain rather than worldwide impact, but t
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by mmargenot 1y ago
I do agree that there's a lot of garbage and navel-gazing that is directly downstream from the creation of LLMs. Because it's easier to task and evaluate an LLM [or network of LLMs] with generation of code, most of these products
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by mmargenot 1y ago
At least within tech, there seem to have been explosive changes and development of new products. While many of these fail, things like agents and other approaches for handling foundation models are only expanding in use cases. Agents themse
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by mmargenot 1y ago
I remember writing essays on an AlphaSmart for various assorted classes, that was probably my first experience with a computer.
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by mmargenot 1y ago
I think this is a neat approach. When I interact with AI tooling, such as Claude Code, my general philosophy has been to maintain a strong opinion about what it is that I actually want to build. I usually have some system design done or som
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by mmargenot 1y ago
What has your experience been in recovering information from Notion? Is the search getting you what you need?
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by mmargenot 1y ago
I use Notion extensively as an individual, but I spend a lot of time thinking about knowledge management and have accordingly tuned it pretty closely to my typical workflows. Without that initial time investment it can be overwhelming.
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by mmargenot 1y ago
I like Obsidian a lot (especially for the ease of plugin development), but my impression is that most people don't use such comparatively heavy applications for managing their personal lives. It's more likely that they use a Googl
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by mmargenot 1y ago
There is a tradeoff between quantity of tools and the ability of the model to make effective use of them. If tools in an MCP are defined at a very granular level (i.e. single API calls) it's a bad MCP. I imagine you run into something
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by mmargenot 1y ago
Yeah, it's one of those things where it's very reasonable to draw a line between company and individual blogs and keep it to one or the other. In any case, I know there are some other solid individual blog collections in the comme
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by mmargenot 1y ago
I love this and think that your write-up is fantastic, thank you for sharing your work in such detail. What are you thinking in terms of improving [and using] the knowledge graph beyond the knowledge panel on the side? If I'm reading t
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by mmargenot 1y ago
Are you trying to stick with company blogs primarily, or to expand into general non-affiliated eng blogs? People like Maggie Appleton ( https://maggieappleton.com/ ) and Patrick McKenzie ( https://www.kalzumeus.com&
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by mmargenot 1y ago
Oh neat, I haven't seen this before, though I imagine that the source of inspiration is similar. I implemented mine on Obsidian as it's a little easier than starting with a new tool wholesale. Have you used Nomad before?
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by mmargenot 1y ago
You can insert a link to the surfaced content using the button on the search results - unfortunately it won't directly link to the block the content comes from. If the search result is a full "Note", clicking the result objec
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Show HN: Tezcat – local-first AI recall in Obsidian via a remembrance agent(github.com)
6 points by mmargenot 1y ago|5 comments
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by mmargenot 5y ago
They probably mean the voluntary survey that most quick online applications have nowadays.
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by mmargenot 7y ago
That looks way better. It's more that it was just a strong turn-off.
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by mmargenot 7y ago
The joke FAQ makes this seem illegitimate. I don't see why you couldn't come up with some real concerns you expect to hear and front-run them.
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by mmargenot 9y ago
You're right, backtest overfitting is a problem. At Quantopian, we spend a lot of time on education helping people avoid overfitting like this ( https://www.quantopian.com/lectures#The-Dangers-of-Overfitti... ). It is ea