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Ken Collins - Innovative & Award-Winning Leader | AWS Hero | Business Impact thru Strategic Tech, Product, Marketing, & Sales.
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metaskills··on Graph-Driven Open Source Memory Layer for Llama 3
Using Zep memory with the Vercel AI SDK. Framework and model agnostic knowledge graph.
metaskills··on Can OpenAI's Realtime API Recognize Spacial Audio?
Sharing because I was wondering if OpenAI would built a bot in the future and it seems to me having spacial audio on the model could provide a hint at that.
metaskills··on Can OpenAI's Realtime API Recognize Spacial Audio?
Even though it supports pcm16 with two channels - I kind of doubt this beta version can do it. It frankly gets it wrong most times. But sometimes...
metaskills··on Gemma 2 on AWS Lambda with Llamafile
A small experiment to see if we are there yet with highly virtualized CPU compute and Small Language Models (SLM). The answer is a resounding maybe, but most likely not. Huge thanks to Justine for her work on Llamafile supported by Mozilla. Hope folks find this R&D useful.
metaskills··on Multi AI agent systems using OpenAI's assistants API
Yup, this seems right. You pay for tokens no matter what. Even in other APIs. Did you know you can set an expire for files, vector stores, etc? No need to pay for long term storage on those. Also, threads are free.
metaskills··on Multi AI agent systems using OpenAI's assistants API
Y'all just made my day!
metaskills··on Multi AI agent systems using OpenAI's assistants API
I have some assumptions/guesses on how billing works. Gonna do a post on this on my unremarkable.ai blog, please do signup for posts there, no spam. I could be right or wrong but need to do some experiments and publish later.
metaskills··on Multi AI agent systems using OpenAI's assistants API
Interesting, would Amazon Bedrock be an alternative? That's how I use Claude.
metaskills··on Multi AI agent systems using OpenAI's assistants API
LMAO. Yes, I love ESM modules. So maybe more like 2012 or 2015. Would you like to see TypeScript?
metaskills··on Multi AI agent systems using OpenAI's assistants API
Great points. Dont even get me started about how function calling in other LLMs costs me tokens. Something OpenAI provides OOTB. I'm also not a big fan of OpenAI's lock in. Right now I'm on a huge Claude 3 Haiku kick. That said, OpenAI does seem to get the APIs right and my hunch is the new Assistants API is going to potentially disrupt things again. Time will tell.
metaskills··on Multi AI agent systems using OpenAI's assistants API
Thanks @beoberha, I am too. I like one take I heard on Twitter. The sentiment was something like these types of systems are useful under the AI-Powered Productivity industry which has incremental gains, no big bangs. Said another way, if your job was to help a TON of your employees be more productive individually, it is worth it because companies measure those efforts broadly and the payoff is there. But again, not big. My advice for folks to stay lower level and hook AI automation up with simple, closed loop, LLM patterns that feel more like basic API calls in a choreographed manner. OMG, hope all that made sense
metaskills··on Designing a Ruby Serverless Runtime
Glad Google is catching up with Ruby. But if you really want to learn how I am doing this with AWS and how easy it is to handle Rails on Lambda, check out the Lamby work here. https://lamby.custominktech.com
metaskills··on HomeMarks v3 Launches
Many of my users were friends I met at various Ruby/Rails development circles. HomeMarks is a passion project that I have strived to re-write every few years. I threw away ~7K lines of custom MV* JS (before there were any) written in Prototype.js to create this new version in Rails/SpineJS. I hope others find it useful. History here.

HomeMarks, My First Ruby On Rails Pet Project http://metaskills.net/2006/12/21/homemarks-my-first-ruby-on-...

Hell'OO HomeMarks http://metaskills.net/2008/08/18/in-hell-oo-for-homemarks/

The "AJAX Head" Design Pattern http://metaskills.net/2008/05/24/the-ajax-head-design-patter...

metaskills··on Why we don't use a Rails template
I never liked Rails templates because I felt the quality of the final product was never on par with what you would setup from scratch. To that end, I created my own system that I call a Rails application prototype. If you are interested you can learn more about it here.

https://github.com/metaskills/holy_grail_harness

I can see both sides of the argument here. My application prototype is really slim and focuses on bootstrapping an application with a major emphasis on testing tools. Even tho it has a JavaScript MVC framework (Spine.JS) it will remove all traces depending on your setup questions. This approach to a lean prototype means it can easily be updated like a normal Rails application and changed/forked as needed. Best of both worlds hopefully.

metaskills··on Poll: Do you touch-type?
I learned touch typing in high school '90 not knowing what career I would be in. I can type very fast now and love the fact that I took the time to learn. Know your instrument!
metaskills··on We've invented waterfall
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGS2tKQhdhY
metaskills··on Rbenv, an unobtrusive rvm replacement
We are software nerds people. It is supposed to be cool to se how others solve problems. It is as simple as that.
metaskills··on Rbenv, an unobtrusive rvm replacement
To be fair, Wayne has always said that RVM was made for production first and development second. Not sure if it is fair to say it is not production ready since it has always been geared toward just that.