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by peterldowns 3y ago
If you're interested in L-systems you may also enjoy reading about Shape Grammars. Sort of an evolutionary dead-end in terms of system design, but intriguing. As far as I can tell they were basically superceded by other types of progra
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by peterldowns 3y ago
Spacy [0] is a state-of-art / easy-to-use NLP library from the pre-LLM era. This post is the Spacy founder's thoughts on how to integrate LLMs with the kind of problems that "traditional" NLP is used for right now. It&#x
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Show HN: Pgmigrate, modern Postgres migrations CLI(github.com)
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by peterldowns 3y ago
And for anyone who hasn’t heard of him, look up “mr zip”! The smithsonian has some great material. I’m hoping to create an online archive (hah) of mr zip materials at https://mr.zip sometime soon
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Show HN: Pgtestdb, fast Postgres dbs for Golang tests(github.com)
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by peterldowns 3y ago
The author appears motivated by some... interesting... beliefs. Hard to tell if this entire thing is a joke or not. https://github.com/kyegomez/EXA#for-humanity https://blog.apac.ai/liberation-awaits E
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by peterldowns 3y ago
I think the best part about Nix is that it makes it super easy to get software into your development environment. This layered store is a pretty cool setup to make that efficient for Replit. Not sure how if Nix/Replit has the program y
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by peterldowns 3y ago
Thanks Zain :) I tried hard to make it easy to install via homebrew, nix, go, or just downloading an executable. If anyone reading this runs into a problem getting it set up, please let me know here or by filing a Github issue and I'll
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Show HN: Localias, securely manage local devserver aliases(github.com)
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by peterldowns 4y ago
Strongly recommend reading A Deepness In The Sky before reading A Fire Upon the Deep . They're both good books but ADITS is phenomenal and much more similar to Accelerando , whereas AFUTD is less "hard sci-fi" and more &q
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by peterldowns 5y ago
My friend who joined Zoom via the acquisition said it’s abandoned, all future work is on Zoom, no plans to do anything other than bare minimum maintenance on the keybase systems. No surprise here. Bit of a shame though. Edit: following up o