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echollama

305 karma · joined January 13, 2025

previous startup founder and current robotics engineer
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echollama··on [dead]
finn is the goal of a self-balancing two-wheeled humanoid I'm building from scratch, mostly to force myself to learn a wide range of robotics. firmware, cad, sim models, identification data and logs are all at https://github.com/Masony817/finn

-- things like cad files and such are in onshape so if you're interested just email me -- im intrigued to hear what others think outside of my own brains echo chamber so email me anything you want

echollama··on [dead]
finn is the goal of a self-balancing two-wheeled humanoid I'm building from scratch, mostly to force myself to learn a wide range of robotics.

firmware, cad, sim models, identification data and logs are all at https://github.com/Masony817/finn

-- things like cad files and such are in onshape so if you're interested just email me -- im intrigued to hear what others think outside of my own brains echo chamber so email me anything you want

echollama··on Addictions Are Being Engineered
agreed its like saying that jerking off makes you healthier
echollama··on Show HN: Ask-human-mcp – zero-config human-in-loop hatch to stop hallucinations
i fixed this
echollama··on Show HN: Ask-human-mcp – zero-config human-in-loop hatch to stop hallucinations
yes it is
echollama··on Show HN: Ask-human-mcp – zero-config human-in-loop hatch to stop hallucinations
would probably work better, this is just how i threw it together as an internal tool a long time ago. i just improved it and shipped it to opensource it.
echollama··on Show HN: Ask-human-mcp – zero-config human-in-loop hatch to stop hallucinations
reasoning models know when they are close to hallucinating because they are lacking context or understanding and know that they could solve this with a question.

this is a streamlined implementation of a interanlly scrapped together tool that i decided to open-source for people to either us or build off of.

echollama··on Show HN: Ask-human-mcp – zero-config human-in-loop hatch to stop hallucinations
this is mainly meant as a way to conversate with the model while you are programming with it. This is not meant to pull questions to a team but more to pair program. a markdown file is best for syntax in an llm prompt and also just easiest to have open and answer questions with. If i had more time and could i would build an extension into cursor.
echollama··on Show HN: Ask-human-mcp – zero-config human-in-loop hatch to stop hallucinations
the reasoning aspect of most llms these days knows when its unsure or stuck, you can get that from its thinking tokens. It will see this mcp and call it when its in that state. Though this could benefit from some rules file to use it, although cursor doesn't quite follow ask for help rules, hence making this.
echollama··on Ask HN: Has anybody built search on top of Anna's Archive?
garbled/half-hallucinated is probably what you would've gotten 8-12mo ago but now adays im sure with good prompting you can pull value from any book.
echollama··on The future of MCP in agentic environments?
model context protocol https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/agents-and-tools/mcp
echollama··on Software engineering has become prompt engineering and code reviews
i usually just have cursor chat open and i code some function, get cursor to do a code review of that, look for errors and do some chain of thought reasoning with o1-mini and its related functions. I then run the tests and put log output through cursor to identify bug fixes. Using LLMs as almost a pair programmer as well as something to check my work as im working.