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alfozan

493 karma · joined August 28, 2014

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alfozan··on When does MCP make sense vs CLI?
CLI vs MCP debate misses the protocol's actual value prop: steering the agent: https://cra.mr/context-management-and-mcp
alfozan··on Air Quality Monitors Compared: AirGradient vs. Purple Air
I've been using the Awair air quality monitor (https://getawair.com) for over 5 years and I'm really happy with it. I've built a simple dashboard to visualize the readings: https://github.com/alfozan/Air-Quality-Dashboard
alfozan··on Ask HN: Are you using a GPT to prompt-engineer another GPT?
Checkout Magic Prompts https://magicprompts.lyzr.ai/
alfozan··on Safe: Set maximum capacity for any room, floor, or building
This is a cool concept, though it appears to only care about the total number of people being below a set threshold regardless how people interact (i.e. maintain social distancing)

Shameless plug: two friends and I put together a small app that uses security cameras feed to calculate real-time density + estimate "safe" space capacity:

Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTgxhptePxM Demo site: https://flou.fyi/ (takes a bit to load)

alfozan··on The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015)
Who still uses Hadoop anyway?

https://spark.apache.org/ https://www.iguazio.com/data-science-post-hadoop/

alfozan··on Reddit was down for over two hours
Alexa rankings are meaningless for services that are mostly accessed via mobile: https://www.quora.com/Does-Alexa-include-app-usage-in-its-st... https://www.quora.com/Does-Alexa-track-traffic-from-iPhones-...
alfozan··on Show HN: Enviro+ for Raspberry Pi – Environmental sensors
I have been using https://getawair.com/ (2nd edition) for over 6 months and I can't recommend it enough.
alfozan··on The Weight of Numbers: Air Pollution and PM2.5
Air Quality Monitors Comparison: https://explorables.cmucreatelab.org/explorables/air-quality...
alfozan··on 12 Atomic Experiments in Deep Learning
Very interesting experiments. I have been thinking for a long time that it's a good idea to do these atomic tests. About test 8, it is actually well known that if you want accuracy vs # of epochs, decrease the batch size -- however it causes time inefficiency. And I found number 7 quite surprising!
alfozan··on Amazon Merchants Continue to Find Ways to Cheat
I use https://www.fakespot.com to filter out fake product reviews and I found to match my gut feelings most of the time.