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chrispogeek··on Show HN: Ollama – Run LLMs on your Mac
Is this accessible via a local endpoint? I'd want to try calling it from other apps, for example.
chrispogeek··on Painful Lesson: Always 'Show and Tell' Your Product Before You Develop It
I write the simplest incarnation of an idea onto an app, and just share it out with colleagues. I have no expectations. I'd say my hit rate is about 1/5. I consider it very high. It's also that high because my audience is my coworkers and I have a good idea of what they want. It's also that low because I just cobble together stuff that barely works, with the ultimate intent to see if i'd get more questions/requests out of it.
chrispogeek··on Honda to double number of programmers to 10k by 2030
> Software development is a labor-intensive process, meaning that the number of software engineers can determine a carmaker's competitiveness.

The ebb and flow of the layoff cycle...

chrispogeek··on NormCap: OCR powered screen-capture tool
I was just using tesseract.js and the repo looks active. Tesseract is still crap, but it's the free crap, so I'll just put up with it. Grayscale seems to improve the OCR. I'm sure there are tons of other techniques to improve the result
chrispogeek··on Ask HN: People who were laid off or quit recently, how are you doing?
Anthropic?! Regardless of what it is, congrats!
chrispogeek··on Autonomous Agents and Agent Simulations
Any reading material about this?
chrispogeek··on Auto-GPT Unmasked: The Hype and Hard Truths of Its Production Pitfalls
Sounds like GPT-speak to me...
chrispogeek··on When do you need chain-of-thought prompting for ChatGPT?
I think COT would still be useful for guiding the LLM to customized context. Most of these examples refer to vanilla arithmetic/logic reasoning COT.
chrispogeek··on Microsoft / JARVIS: a system to connect LLMs with ML community
I think with Langchain the LLM picks the tools/APIs you provide to it.

With Jarvis the LLM picks the HF models available.

chrispogeek··on ChatGPT Plugins
Owning up to the "wrong" is good in my book
chrispogeek··on Bard uses a Hacker News comment as source to say that Bard has shut down
Well it's honest
chrispogeek··on Show HN: Generate styled web pages with just Python
So cool! Is there support for layouts?

Edit: Aw broken link - https://www.pycob.com/components

Edit: Nevermind, found it - https://www.pyvibe.com/component_reference.html