brettkromkamp

What AI is going after, that is, the size of the pie, is the $50 trillion per year portion of global GDP that makes up wages. Putting aside the risks (which are enormous) when you see it that way you begin to understand OpenAI's valuation late last year, and that that's just the tip of the iceberg of what's coming.

The risk of disrupting a sizable chunk of the world's wages is fuel for a separate post and conversation. IMHO it's the real risk of AI, and the Skynet scenario around ASI/AGI that has been popularized is a distraction.

There is no end goal. It's just a bunch of independent actors who are all trying to get ahead of their competitors a step at a time. Two steps if they're lucky. The collective system steers into whichever direction was determined by the previous set of steps, with very little potential for any individual actor to turn it around.

Just another example of US decline, right?

This administration is a true gift to America's adversaries.

A very depressing read, indeed. One can only hope that Europe can, at least, somewhat compensate. I also find it hard to believe (although, obviously possible) that the majority of Americans wanted this regardless of Trump winning the elections. At this point you have to ask yourself what a Russian asset could have done more in relation to what Trump has done.

This!

This!

I'm just waiting for someone to post that they have developed an AI to read and summarize (AI-generated) LinkedIn posts making us go full circle: AI-in -> AI-out -> AI-in... ad infinitum.

If you haven’t already, you could check out this resource: https://datajournalism.com/read/handbook/two

Which leads me to ask the question how the prevention of the TikTok ban would benefit Trump personally.

I agree. While not wanting to trivialize this operation by the Ukrainians, I don't think it can truly be compared to Israel's elaborate plan to sabotage Hezbollah's communication devices in terms of their respective complexity.

Not so much an out-of-the-box tool, but I am using OpenAI's API to generate complete knowledge graphs for my own tool: Contextualise (a topic maps-based PKM tool). Although not perfect, this approach is working suprisingly well.

LangGraph is an interesting agentic AI framework, so I will definitely take a look at your book. How well does it read on a Kindle?

To this day, topic maps still provide me with my go-to (meta) model.

Topic maps truly provide a straightforward organizational metaphor. The foundational topic maps concept —comprising topics, occurrences, and associations— achieves a balance between simplicity and clarity while offering sufficient structure. This allows you to effectively translate your mental model of a domain into a corresponding topic map representation.

I remember that the same thing happened with US military personnel, years ago. That this is still a thing in 2024 with the Secret Service, if this report is true, seems beyond amateurish.

Excellent write up. Especially the part about SQLite PRAGMAs is very helpful (my web application is also SQLite-based). Thanks for sharing your experience.

Flask (Python), FastAPI and htmx. A very capable stack while still be manageable by a solo-developer.

Contextualise. Contextualise is an effective tool particularly suited for organising information-heavy projects and activities consisting of unstructured and widely diverse data and information resources.

GitHub: https://github.com/brettkromkamp/contextualise

Website: https://contextualise.dev/

Beyond clickbait.

https://brettkromkamp.com/ and https://contextualise.dev/

How benevolent of him.

Waste of time.

I do, here: https://brettkromkamp.com/. Unfortunately, I don't post regularly.

Implementing version 2.0 of https://contextualise.dev/ a knowledge management tool. At the moment, adding (vector) embeddings for semantic search and automatically surfacing related topics. Once that is done, adding a multi-modal embeddings model so that uploaded images can be (semi) automatically described and tagged.

The fact that he is (probably) referring to music as “content” is telling.

My sentiments exactly.

Couldn’t agree more.

Great to see this kind of innovation in the Flutter ecosystem. Bookmarked!

It doesn’t seem to me that Flutter was singled-out. Google is going through a phase of company-wide cuts (for example, a lot of people in their Python team have just been made redundant, as well). It also looks like there is a substantial amount of development (still) taking place in and around Flutter… think Impeller and WASM-support (to name but a few). On the whole, Flutter’s ecosystem seems to be, at least, reasonably healthy. All of this does not mean that Google won’t kill Flutter at some point. I just don’t think it will be now.

Take a look at these projects: https://aosabook.org/en/

Should give you a good overview of interesting projects to potentially work on.

Blender (https://www.blender.org/), by a wide margin, is my favourite piece of software. It's so apparent that the team behind it is passionate regarding what they are doing and highly skilled, as well. Each release brings both large and small improvements. What's more... it's open source.