pbronez

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by pbronez 1y ago
Love Tom’s Diner, didn’t know it was used as an early mp3 benchmark.
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by pbronez 1y ago
Heh how meta. Makes sense though. I’ve been thinking of creating a very similar tool; delighted that it might already exist!
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by pbronez 1y ago
Glad to hear it, what’s your approach?
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by pbronez 1y ago
One formal measure of this is Inter-Rater Reliability https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-rater_reliability
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by pbronez 1y ago
So who’s gonna sue an AI company asserting that all code they produce is GPL due to being trained on GPL code?
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by pbronez 1y ago
That's a good find. I found a 13.3in eink display on Amazon, but it only has a ">1s" refresh rate. Others can take 10s of seconds. [0] https://www.amazon.com/Waveshare-13-3inch-HAT-Raspberry-1600...
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by pbronez 1y ago
Time War is NOT hard Sci-Fi. It’s a wartime romance that uses divergent technical evolution to create cultural distance and time travel to engineer social collisions. The combination is fantastically human.
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by pbronez 1y ago
“This is How You Lose the Time War” is brilliant. Highly recommend the audio book.
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by pbronez 1y ago
> the elephants in the room: Intellectual property theft. Yup. China has been systematically stealing the IP of anything made in their country since forever. Companies kept falling for it because the potential market looked so big. Now B
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by pbronez 1y ago
Cool platform. I got some errors while exploring your website. Searching for tools to use works on mobile but not on desktop for some reason.
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by pbronez 2y ago
Just ran into something similar with Great Expectations. Python 3.12 is the newest I can run.
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by pbronez 2y ago
Aptera is shooting for 2,200 lbs with enough performance to handle highway speeds with two people and some cargo. It has three wheels and extreme aerodynamics. https://aptera.us/article/how-does-the-weight-of-aptera-com
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by pbronez 2y ago
“isn’t that an argument for iterative policy, not inaction?” EVERYTHING is an argument for iterative policy. Problem is the political system is presently incapable of it. We have to upgrade democracy first. We can tackle any challenge once
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by pbronez 2y ago
Testing the query on Kagi # Quick Answer Yes, Paul Newman struggled with alcohol. His issues with alcohol were explored in the HBO Max documentary, The Last Movie Stars, and Shawn Levy's biography, Paul Newman: A Life. According to a p
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by pbronez 2y ago
Absolutely - incredible to see how many places that code shows up.
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by pbronez 2y ago
I like how the spec defines character classes by just passing the buck to Unicode ===== Forbidden Characters Forbidden characters are Unicode scalar values with general category Control, Surrogate, and Unassigned. Forbidden characters must
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by pbronez 2y ago
The algorithm is described at https://www.paulnasca.com/algorithms-created-by-me
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by pbronez 2y ago
Kagi is already for profit, they just haven’t raised a huge amount of money: > Kagi can afford this because they go further than being bootstrapped and profitable: As a Public Benefit Corporation, not beholden to maximizing shareholder v
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by pbronez 2y ago
Kagi Assistant is awesome. It uses their search for context. I got a free year of Perplexity and liked Kagi better.
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by pbronez 2y ago
Based on that, do you find SQLModel[0] to be an elegant integration of these ideas, or a horrid ball of spaghetti? [0] https://sqlmodel.tiangolo.com/
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by pbronez 2y ago
Those vibes are immaculate
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by pbronez 2y ago
Paper points out that K-means is a special case of gaussian mixture modeling that makes lots of assumptions about the data. As always, understanding the statistical assumptions behind your model is absolutely essential.
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by pbronez 2y ago
I got a free year of Perplexity thanks to owning an R1. I already had a Kagi subscription, but decided to give Perplexity a try. I found Perplexity was slower and delivered lower quality results relative to Kagi. After a week of experimenti
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by pbronez 2y ago
How well is that working for you? We use a pattern where we ETL things into tables that model the upstream source closely, then use SQL Views to tighten up the model and integrate across data sources where needed. Keeping this all inside on
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by pbronez 2y ago
Yes. This is the killer app for blockchain. I want Movies Anywhere, but for everything and without an industry gatekeeper. If I am subscribed to Netflix, I should be able to watch every video in their catalog through any service that has th
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by pbronez 2y ago
Yes. Once I was leaving a managerial role for a lateral transfer and helped choose my replacement. One candidate was a high performing individual contributor. They felt obligated to apply for the job, but didn't really want it. They li
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by pbronez 2y ago
Absolutely. Units are such a useful idea. I was recently struggling to model a financial process and solved it with Units. Once I started talking about colors of money as units, it became much easier to reason about which operations were va
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by pbronez 2y ago
Fantastic book, great recommendation.
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by pbronez 2y ago
TIL that steam distribution was invented in the USA around 1880, and is still used in NYC. Never occurred to me that “Steam Plants” literally produce steam for distribution. I thought that was a glib reference to the white smoke they produc
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by pbronez 2y ago
What AI tool did you use to convert the Midjourney raster images to SVGs? That’s a valuable operation and I’ve struggled to find good tools for it.

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