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by pantsforbirds 8mo ago
I don't care if we have that standard for people, but I think it's a VERY bad idea to bake into AI's any sort of demographic-based biases. Why would you not want to ensure we don't bake racism, sexism, or any other biase
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by pantsforbirds 8mo ago
When rust was still a fairly new language i remember using capn'n proto to communicate between some rust code and python as a way to experiment with handing off performance critical tasks to a compiled language. I wonder how well a sim
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by pantsforbirds 9mo ago
They clearly meant a statically typed language. Yes Python is Strongly Typed, but I think we all knew what they meant.
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by pantsforbirds 10mo ago
If your problem fits into arrays/matrices/vectors as the only required datastructures, Fortran is a VERY good language.
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by pantsforbirds 10mo ago
I think I'm the only one kind of stoked about this. My kiddos are going to LOVE making short films with their favorite Disney Princesses.
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by pantsforbirds 11mo ago
I used the Kernel Density Estimation (KDE) page/blog at my very first job. It was immensely useful and I've loved his work ever since.
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by pantsforbirds 11mo ago
Have you explored using Apple's javascript core engine at all? I know bun was built on it, but I don't know much else about it.
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by pantsforbirds 1y ago
That's a really interesting idea. My original thought was to use MCP as the way to define other agents, but I'll have to do some more research into extism!
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by pantsforbirds 1y ago
I'm still in the exploration/experimentation stage of the project, but I'm currently using a mixture of SQLite, PostgreSQL, S3, and DuckDB. My original thought was to spin up SQLite databases as needed because they are super
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by pantsforbirds 1y ago
I've been messing around with an Elixir + BEAM based agent framework. I think a mixture of BEAM + SQLite is about as good as you can get for agents right now. You can safely swap out agents without redeploying the application, the conc
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by pantsforbirds 1y ago
It seems MUCH better at tool usage. Just had an example where I asked Sonnet 4 to split a PR I had after we had to revert an upstream commit. I didn't want to lose the work I had done, and I knew it would be a pain to do it manually wi
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by pantsforbirds 1y ago
When Grok 3 was released, it was genuinely one of the very best for coding. Now that we have Gemini 2.5 pro, o4-mini, and Claude 3.7 thinking, it's no longer the best for most coding. I find it still does very well with more classic da
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by pantsforbirds 2y ago
See a example full in a few commands using uv think "wow I bet that Simon guy from twitter would love this" ... it's already him.
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by pantsforbirds 2y ago
My favorite language is Python, but I wouldn't write a blog post about it because no one would care.
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by pantsforbirds 2y ago
I had Grok summarize + evaluate the first chapter with thinking mode enabled. The output was actually pretty solid: https://pastebin.com/pLjHJF8E . I wouldn't be surprised if someone figured out a solid mixture of model
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by pantsforbirds 2y ago
Would the kotlin equivalent just be: val dateRegex = Regex("""(\d{4})-(\d{2})-(\d{2})""") val (year, _, _) = dateRegex.matchEntire("2004-01-20")!!.destructured println("$year was a go
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by pantsforbirds 2y ago
We eventually migrated the vast majority of our Scala code over to Kotlin (and a bit of PySpark). I found Kotlin to be great for writing very performant concurrent code. It was actually easier to write faster code in Kotlin, and even though
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by pantsforbirds 2y ago
I actually prefer it. It's very similar to ripgrep's default search. I do occasionally want to find something in a .gitignore, or other hidden directory, but I don't mind taking the time to `rg/fd --help` and add the fla
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by pantsforbirds 2y ago
I've had great luck using either Athena or DuckDB with parquet files in s3 using a few partitions. You can query across the partitions pretty efficiently and if date/time is one of your partitions, then it's very efficient to
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by pantsforbirds 2y ago
Does DeepEval allow you to set up custom metrics without an LLM-as-a-judge base? If I want my result to be a JSON output, and I want to weight the keys based on some specific importance weighting, can I write a Python function/class to
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by pantsforbirds 2y ago
Code golf actually made me a much better python programmer. I learned way more of the standard library than I would have otherwise, and I found a ton of edge cases that I can now avoid in production code.
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by pantsforbirds 2y ago
Awesome news and something I really want to checkout for work. Has anyone seen any RAG evals for ModernBERT yet?
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by pantsforbirds 2y ago
I probably wouldn't swap unless you have a specific complaint with SNS/SQS. I do like how easy it is to spin up Rabbit locally via docker-compose for testing, but I don't think that convenience is worth refactoring a signific
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by pantsforbirds 2y ago
What sort of extensions do you find yourself writing? I think that is fascinating and thinking back, probably something I should have at least considered a few times.
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by pantsforbirds 2y ago
You can always use sqlite as your primary data store, and then directly query the sqlite database from duckdb whenever you need analytics.
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by pantsforbirds 2y ago
Ruff (the linter/formatter from Astral) has its own LSP right now: https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff-lsp . Although Ruff itself now ships with a language server already integrated, so I have no idea what the plan i
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by pantsforbirds 2y ago
I was also not very impressed, but I still think they are positioned to have a great product if they can get past the accuracy issues.
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by pantsforbirds 2y ago
It's designed for analytics work. Some examples: * You could run a bunch of analytics queries directly on a jsonlines, csv, or parquet file (or even glob of files). * You can output directly to a pandas or polars dataframe * You can u
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by pantsforbirds 2y ago
If the X.AI team is able to build out a good enough model with access to real-time tweets, they could have an incredible product. I'd love to be ask about current events and get really strong results back based on tweets + community no
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by pantsforbirds 2y ago
I've almost entirely replaced Pandas with DuckDB in my day-to-day work. I wonder if it would be an easier lift for someone who is familiar with SQL, and doesnt want to pick up Pandas/Polars.

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