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Re:Who invented deep residual learning? on Sunday October 19, 2025 @03:14AM (#45632524)
Perhaps then inventors of promising ideas should make multiple attempts at popularizing their ideas if they care about association, multiple attempts at explaining why the idea is important and demonstrations of killer applications.
I have found 'Buienalarm' to be more accurate in the Netherlands, not scientifically, just anecdotally
Re:I've spent $25k on X ads as an indie dev on Friday November 29, 2024 @06:15AM (#42273021)
I want more blog posts like this: filled to the brim with useful advice. Ty pul!
FWIW I think LangChain has evolved a lot and is a nice time saver once you figure out the patterns it uses. The LangSmith observability is frankly fantastic to quickly get a sense of how your expected LLM flow engineering ends up working out in practice. So much FUD here, unwarranted IMO. Don’t forget, reading code is harder than writing it, doesn’t warrant throwing out the baby with the bath water. Don’t fall for NIH :) Haven’t had issues running in prod recently either since they’ve matured their packaging with core/community/partner etc. For agentic use cases look at LangGraph for a cleaner set of primitives that give you the amount of control needed there.
Re:Questioning "The Value of Open Source Software" on Monday February 12, 2024 @01:10AM (#39341986)
It makes no sense to estimate the total cost of the proprietary equivalent of _all_ that is currently OSS at $177M. It would be spread over at minimum thousands of companies and each company would try to get their margin, needs to be rewarded for the risk they’re taking, etc.

The HBS method to get to 3.5X isn’t sensible (as the author points out, not everyone would build) but the truth is somewhere in-between.

The COGS of software would be significantly higher if there was no OSS. But everyone knows that already. I don’t think any new information has been created here.

Re:Show HN: BuildAnything – stream LLM HTML to an iframe on Saturday January 13, 2024 @07:16AM (#38979290)
I really enjoy tinkering with LLM outputs that generate code that can be executed directly. Especially the faster models like GPT-3.5 Turbo are a joy to play with.
Re:Fastest Autograd in the West on Friday January 05, 2024 @05:41AM (#38877680)
Am I the only one surprised that the author of einops is looking for work? In an era of an AI arms race between many big labs? If you’re rolling your own networks, I’d definitely reach out to this guy!
Re:Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes on Friday December 15, 2023 @09:30AM (#38654525)
TIL. Cross-posting breaks silos
Re:Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes on Friday December 15, 2023 @09:18AM (#38654392)
https://github.com/PipedreamHQ/pipedream/issues/954

No I don’t think so. You probably want n8n if you’re keen on self-hosting.

Re:Ask HN: AI/ML papers to catch up with current state of AI? on Friday December 15, 2023 @07:19AM (#38653407)
If you want good up to date resources on the applied side I’d recommend checking out https://hamel.dev/notes/
Re:Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes on Friday December 15, 2023 @05:21AM (#38652748)
I have to plug one of my favorite workflow automation tools that is a namesake and was fairly recently developed: https://pipedream.com/

Would definitely give it a try if you’re looking to automate Yahoo Pipes style.

I have no affiliation to them, just a happy user

Thanks! Appreciate it
I wrote a similar thing for myself: https://github.com/ricklamers/shell-ai

It currently has 882 stars and I think a few people at least are enjoying using it.

https://codingwithintelligence.com/feed.xml

It has an RSS feed with full articles available. I understand your desire to limit JS.

Great analysis on the value of collecting and curating knowledge, even without synthesizing it into "best practices." As an AI engineer I collect a lot of resources here, hoping it helps someone https://codingwithintelligence.com/
Re:Mojo: The usability of Python with the performance of C on Saturday September 23, 2023 @05:01AM (#37621693)
It doesn’t even support keyword arguments yet, hard to take the Python interop seriously
Re:Hush – Noiseless Browsing for Safari on Monday September 18, 2023 @04:27AM (#37553663)
I found https://github.com/oblador/hush#does-hush-accept-or-deny-per...

So neither it seems. Whatever the website does when a user doesn’t make a choice.

Re:Show HN: Code Indexer Loop on Monday September 11, 2023 @11:09AM (#37468425)
Please let me know if anything isn’t as expected and I’ll try to look into it
Re:Show HN: Code Indexer Loop on Monday September 11, 2023 @04:43AM (#37464534)
Sweep is mentioned as attribution in multiple places a) https://github.com/definitive-io/code-indexer-loop#attributi... b) https://github.com/definitive-io/code-indexer-loop/blob/fd9d...

The difference is packaging it as a consumable PyPI package that can easily be used in a project (they even call out for separating this out into a stand alone project but that they lack the time to do so: https://docs.sweep.dev/blogs/chunking-2m-files#future- )

In addition, we expand and fix the implementation, for example it now supports limiting on token count instead of character count, and we fix some white space inconsistencies in parsing/chunk reconstruction.

Re:Show HN: Kubectl Notebook on Thursday August 24, 2023 @08:19PM (#37256262)
If you can make sure all the resources are namespaced well I’d actually start moving some local workloads to our GKE cluster. Very nice work!

Show HN: Shell-AI, run shell commands with natural language

https://github.com/ricklamers/shell-ai

Hello HN! I know this project is a super simple wrapper around LangChain/OpenAI but I just found myself wanting this badly myself: a super simple `pip install` package that I can use to get command suggestions within the terminal as I'm being productive doing other things.`shai git diff but without the big json blobs`The implementation is literally one short glue of LangChain and InquirerPy for...

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Re:Web Scraping via JavaScript Runtime Heap Snapshots (2022) on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @07:25PM (#37056811)
Using introspection tools like queryObjects in Chrome Dev Tools should get you quite far:

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/console/utilities...

The UI toolkit it uses is Yue which I hadn’t heard of: https://libyue.com/docs/latest/js/

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