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elyaseon Pi – A minimal terminal coding harness

there is also pz a drop-in replacement for pi rewritten in Zig. 1.7MB static binary, 3ms startup, 1.4MB RAM idle. Find more at:

https://github.com/elyase/awesome-personal-ai-assistants?tab...

elyaseon Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 – an update

https://github.com/sst/opencode

elyaseon Tools: Code Is All You Need

This is similar to the tool call (fixed code & dynamic params) vs code generation (dynamic code & dynamic params) discussion: tools offer contrains and save tokens, code gives you flexibility. Some papers suggest that generating code is often superior and this will likely become even more true as language models improve

[1] https://huggingface.co/papers/2402.01030

[2] https://huggingface.co/papers/2401.00812

[3] https://huggingface.co/papers/2411.01747

I am working on a model that goes a step beyond and even makes the distinction between thinking and code execution unnecessary (it is all computation in the end), unfortunately no link to share yet

elyaseon Is gravity just entropy rising? Long-shot idea gets another look

Between two models the one with the shorter Minimum Description Length (MDL) will more likely generalize better

elyaseon A Research Preview of Codex

What you're missing is how to use the tools properly. With solid documentation, good project management practices, a well-organized code structure and tests, any junior engineer should be able to read up on your codebase, write linted code following your codebase style, verify it via tests and write you a report of what was done, challenges faced etc. State of the art coding agents will do that at superhuman speeds.

If you haven't set things up properly (important info lives only in people’s heads / meetings, tasks dont have clear acceptance criteria, ...) then you aren't ready for Junior Developers yet. You need to wait until your Coding Agents are at Senior level.

elyaseon Launch HN: Browser Use (YC W25) – open-source web agents

I want to use browser-use in Cursor but I am using another option because it doesn't support MCP integration which is the common language they support for external tools

elyaseon GPT-4o with scheduled tasks (jawbone) is available in beta

There is more information in these twitter threads:

https://x.com/karinanguyen_/status/1879270529066262733 https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1879267276291203329

elyaseon Show HN: Tonic Validate Metrics – an open-source RAG evaluation metrics package

How does it compare to https://github.com/explodinggradients/ragas

elyaseon Flair: A simple framework for natural language processing

The closest alternatives in this space would be allennlp [1], the recently released pytext [2] and spacy [3]. pytext's authors wrote some comparison on the accompanying paper [4] and this GitHub issue [5].

[1] https://github.com/allenai/allennlp

[2] https://github.com/facebookresearch/pytext

[3] https://spacy.io

[4] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.08729.pdf

[5] https://github.com/facebookresearch/pytext/issues/110

elyaseon What Kagglers Are Using for Text Classification

We have done extensive testing in the context of chatbot intent classification and in our particular problem nothing (including CNN, LSTM, fasttext plus LUIS, Watson and other proprietary classifiers) has been able to beat a simple linear model trained on char n-gram features.

elyaseon Show HN: TabNine, an autocompleter for all languages

Take a look here for some solutions:

https://www.openmined.org

elyaseon NLP's ImageNet Moment: From Shallow to Deep Pre-Training

fast.ai is great and I also want to love it but I find the coding style extremely unconventional and uninviting to the point that I only use the library when there is really no better alternative (ex for the lr finding features). Variable naming and wildcard imports would be my main complains. But thanks a lot Jeremy for the course and for posting the style guide.

elyaseon Show HN: Hooks Data API – Realtime Data about Thousands of Topics Over Webhooks

Cool project. Are you also going to allow access to the historical data?

elyaseon Parallel Python

Dask would be an option.

elyaseon Facebook releases 300-dimensional pretrained Fasttext vectors for 90 languages

We evaluated using ConceptNet Numberbatch but in the end went with fasttext because of the treatment of OOV words using sub word information. This is important for us because we work with Social Media where misspellings are very frequent and we have found this helps a lot. Are you also looking into these sort of enhancements? How do you usually deal with OOV words?

elyaseon How to use Deep Learning when you have Limited Data

It can be argued that some algorithms like Random Forests don't impose a generalization penalty as you increase the number of parameters (forests).

elyaseon Andreessen Says He’s ‘Free as a Bird’ Since Quitting Twitter

If you follow the right people in your fields of interest you will have an endless stream of interesting updated content. You can't personalize HN to have the exact sort of news you want but you can tune the people you follow in Twitter and get the best source of curated news there is for you. I frequently find stuff like new library releases/interesting blog posts from someone I follow well before they appear (if they ever do) in places like HN/Reddit subs I frequent.

elyaseon Show HN: Empirical – A framework for computational experiments

Great work! A question: how do we scale the computations? I know how long my experiments normally take on a 40 core PC. How long will it take and how much will it cost if I use Empirical?

elyaseon Nootropics

A study assessing 6 months (n=112) and 12 months (n=96) of melatonin treatment of 2mg in a controlled release capsule, taken 1-2 hours prior to sleep, people aged 20-80 with primary insomnia failed to show any tolerance to the treatment. The authors noted a slight sensitization to the effects of melatonin at the 3-4 month period, which was attributed to better entrainment of the circadian rhythm. These results have been replicated in another study, lasting 6 months, with a sample of 791 people. No melatonin tolerance due to usage was observed. Another study, lasting 6 months with a sample size of 421 people also replicated these results.

Source: http://examine.com/supplements/Melatonin/#summary15-1

elyaseon Text Summarization with TensorFlow

Any chance some trained model will be released?

elyaseon Show HN: Set of trained deep learning models for computer vision

You mean something like this:

https://github.com/spacy-io/sputnik

elyaseon Dato open sources SFrame – a disk-backed, compressed columnnar data frame

What I don't get is: can you use SFrame without installing the graphlab framework at all? What are the limitations? Is there an example notebook using only SFrame and not graphlab?

elyaseon Introducing Bootstrap Studio

Not Bootstrap specific but Macaw 1.6 [1] is now a free alternative since they were bought by InVision.

[1] http://macaw.co

elyaseon Deep Learning with Spark and TensorFlow

I think this could have been done with GNU parallel. One advantage I see with Spark is that is that it is easier to interact with Python, for example these two lines are all is needed to call the relevant Python function:

  urls = sc.parallelize(batched_data)
  labelled_images = urls.flatMap(apply_batch)

So if you already have a cluster with Spark installed (like Databrick does) then it takes less work to just call your Python code than setting up a GNU Parallel cluster and a writing a small wrapper script. Additionally a Python script would have to load/init the models on every call from Parallel. I agree that this is not a great demonstration of Spark main strengths.

elyaseon 'New' Python modules of 2015

unfortunately not yet, just tried it yesterday. There has been some progress but it looks like it might still take a while [1].

[1] https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/issues/263

elyaseon Natural Language Basics with TextBlob

Now 100% free under the MIT license. Things change by the hour in spacy world, :-).

elyaseon Natural Language Basics with TextBlob

Essentially spacy is better and faster at almost everything it supports but is not free for commercial use. I consider spacy a blessing for the Python and the NLP community in general. They have a great comparison with existing libraries at http://spacy.io/.

EDIT: From today on spacy is free for commercial use! (MIT license).

elyaseon A Neural Network in 11 Lines of Python

Just for comparison this is almost the same using a library [1]:

  import numpy as np
  X = np.array([ [0,0,1],[0,1,1],[1,0,1],[1,1,1]])
  y = np.array([[0,0,1,1]]).T

  from keras.models import Sequential
  from keras.layers.core import Dense

  model = Sequential([Dense(3, 1, init='uniform', activation='sigmoid')])
  model.compile(loss='mean_absolute_error', optimizer='sgd')
  model.fit(X, y, nb_epoch=10000)
  model.predict(X)

[1] http://keras.io

elyaseon Keras: Fast Deep Learning Prototyping for Python

Sorry if it sounded like that. What I meant is that the 2d matrix representation with shape (n_samples, n_features) actually goes beyond scikit-learn and python(ex: dataframes in R or Julia), it is the standard representation of data in Machine Learning so it is assumed that someone who wants to do Deep Learning should already be familiar with it. That is why I thought you should start with something simpler than Deep Learning to get used to these concepts. Scikit-learn is a good option because it has more tutorials/examples/videos and more beginner friendly documentation in general.

elyaseon Keras: Fast Deep Learning Prototyping for Python

Yep, as he mentioned you need some familiarity with scikit learn or similar APIs, take a look at [1] for example. In essence X_train and Y_train are 2d arrays with shape (n_samples, n_features), Y_train is usually of shape (n_samples, 1) the same as the output. Normally both list of lists or numpy arrays are accepted, even a generator of samples as long as it is a 2D like structure. I would say that if this is not obvious to you maybe you should start with something more basic like linear models in scikit-learn before jumping to deep learning.

[1] http://scikit-learn.org/stable/tutorial/basic/tutorial.html#...