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bbischofon Show HN: Moxn – Git-like version control for collaborative docs

This is great; it's honestly so f'in annoying working with documents with multiple users AND LLMs

bbischofon Rip-grep: track what people think is dead

Data visualizations and live dashboards of people tweeting that '_ is dead'

Label studio is fine if it covers your need, but in many cases the core opportunity in an eval interface is fitting in with the SME’s workflow or current tech stack.

If label studio looks like what they can use, it’s fine. If not, a day of vibecoding is worth the effort to make your partners with special knowledge comfortable.

bbischofon Making AI charts go brrrr

10x speed up; what more do you want

bbischofon What we've learned from a year of building with LLMs

Hello, it’s Bryan, an author on this piece.

I’d you’re interested in using one of the LLM-applications I have in prod, check out https://hex.tech/product/magic-ai/ It has a free limit every month to give it a try and see how you like it. If you have feedback after using it, we’re always very interested to hear from users.

As far as fine-tuning in particular, our consensus is that there are easier options first. I personally have fine-tuned gpt models since 2022; here’s a silly post I wrote about it on gpt 2: https://wandb.ai/wandb/fc-bot/reports/Accelerating-ML-Conten...

bbischofon What we've learned from a year of building with LLMs

Hello, it’s Bryan, an author on this piece.

bbischofon What We Learned from a Year of Building with LLMs

We allude to 2 when talking about using explanations first, but I totally agree. One minor comment is explanations after can sometimes be useful for understanding how the model came to a particular generation during post-hoc evals.

Point 1 is also a good callout. I added something on this for llm judge but it’s relevant more broadly.

bbischofon What We Learned from a Year of Building with LLMs

Bryan here, one of the authors.

Sure. Ultimately, you want to use KG to increase your ability to do great retrieval.

Why do graphs help with retrieval? Well, don’t overlook the classic pageant example: graphs provide signal about the interconnectivity of the docs.

Also, sometimes the graph itself are a kind of object you want to retrieve over.

bbischofon Show HN: Rivet – open-source AI Agent dev env with real-world applications

Super interesting. I haven’t seen much chain support tech for ts folk which is a hard requirement for more production applications.

bbischofon System 2 is what we need (in AI)

System 1 & 2 as it applies to AGI

bbischofon A glitch in the SEO matrix

`AI generated content` probably

bbischofon A glitch in the SEO matrix

SEO is dead, or it's so back, I have no idea.

(not OC)

bbischofon Tell HN: 2^4 == 4^2, extended to rationals

Probably this is the article you saw https://link.medium.com/bf81IpGM8yb

bbischofon Advent of Code 2022 is nigh

Hehe, I had the same question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33812666

bbischofon Ask HN: What are you doing this weekend?

Interesting! I do contribute to OSM due to my exploration but I didn’t know about this. Thanks for the reference.

bbischofon Ask HN: What are you doing this weekend?

I’m really into this gps game: https://wandrer.earth (I’m not the creator, just a fan)

It encourages you to walk/run/bike all the roads in a town/city/county and it tracks the percentage.

It’s a fun and creative way to go see parts of your area you wouldn’t otherwise. I’ve used it to walk 97% of the miles in Berkeley and seen so many funky little areas. I also really enjoy how much it has increased my walking over the last few years.

bbischofon Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters

My favorite line in this wonderful paper is:

The database is just filled with garbage that is unusable for this project: Fonts that are completely illegible, fonts that are missing most of their characters, fonts with millions of control points, Comic Sans MS, fonts where every glyph is a drawing of a train, fonts where everything is fine except that just the lowercase r has a width of MAX INT, and so on.

bbischofon Themed days, Timeboxing and why you should use them

The themed time-intervals suggestion is not unreasonable, but this article is completely devoid of any evidence to suggest its success besides... checks notes Elon Musk running several companies.

bbischofon CA Law Was to Give Uber Drivers New Protections. Instead, Comedians Lost Work

I bet they’re not laughing now.

bbischofon A gentle introduction to HDBSCAN and density-based clustering

This is sorta true, but not quite. Leland McInnes and John Healy (the creators of UMAP), do in-fact have an amazing paper on HDBSCAN, but it's not inventing it. In their paper, https://arxiv.org/pdf/1705.07321.pdf, they introduce AHDBSCAN which is a great extension of HDBSCAN to dramatically improve it's performance.

Their work is great but just wanted to save people a google in case they were interested.

bbischofon PimEyes: Upload Your Photo and Find Where Your Face Image Appears Online

Like others this returned total nonsense. Not even one remotely close. (I’m a white dude with publicly visible photos online ICYAI).

It’s stupid and irresponsible that they have made this publicly available. Hopefully the fact that it’s terrible will tank it.

bbischofon Who's Freezing Hiring from Coronavirus

It seems this person is not doing due diligence and some of this is factually incorrect. I’ve been seeing corrections but I don’t recommend trusting this.

bbischofon COMEFROM

My future programming language implements this and GO for better debugging, but the downside is the debugger is named “cotton eyed joe”.

bbischofon Punk Mathematics (2010)

Anyone happen to be a backer and can share updates?

bbischofon Building a Coffee Pot Monitor Using Raspberry Pi

Link dead?

bbischofon New Schmidhuber Paper on Minimax Games

and https://twitter.com/hardmaru/status/1138678311884738560

bbischofon Ask HN: Do you keep a personal knowledge repository?

I love anki, and I love this use of it, but how do you quickly make cards? Especially on mobile?

bbischofon Ask HN: Is the “The Art of Computer Programming” Worth the Investment?

Almost anywhere on the internet people will respond to this with basically "no, it's extremely inefficient to learn how to program this way", and they're right.

But.

If you want to learn _other_ things, these books are incredible. Maybe you want to learn deeply the combinatorial ideas behind data structures, or general techniques for squeezing small optimizations out of low level code. Or even maybe you want to see simple data structures used every-which-way to efficiently solve a huge range of mathematical problems. None of this is normal programming per se. I treat these as math books, and love them for it.

Like much of mathematics, it will make you a better programmer, but only accidentally.

bbischofon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2018)

Blue Bottle | Senior Full Stack, Senior Rails, Mobile, Senior Data | Oakland, California | Remote OK | Full time

Blue Bottle Coffee is hiring for several Senior developer roles to support our E-commerce platform, Internal Tools, Data Infrastructure, and Mobile projects.

Blue Bottle is undertaking a variety of greenfield projects in the next year and excited to nearly double the size of our team—huge amount of opportunity for ownership and leadership. (this is why we're currently only hiring at the senior level)

Also, c'mon, the coffee is great...

We are currently using Ruby/Rails, Go, and Python as our primary languages for dev. Moving towards React. Everything is on AWS, mostly using Docker, we also have CI/CD, and use the ol' github.

Some job descriptions: https://jobs.lever.co/bluebottlecoffee?department=Digital&te...

Email me at bryanbischof@bluebottlecoffee.com if ya wanna.