Kydlaw

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by Kydlaw 13d ago
I haven't tried chDB yet, but I heard about it. Thank you for reminding me of that option. I use SQL in data pipelines and processing that is going to require interoperability. But for data exploration, I usually prefer Polars (imo it
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by Kydlaw 14d ago
Happy to see activity around Polars. This has been my go-to library for data processing due to the enhanced ergonomics compared to Pandas and SQL. But they were a bit quiet lately, and I started looking more and more into DuckDB recently… u
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Agent Plugins Specification(github.com)
3 points by Kydlaw 1mo ago|1 comments
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by Kydlaw 1mo ago
https://agent-plugins.org/
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by Kydlaw 1mo ago
That's what we are using as well in our small team. `mise` for our non-sensitive values/ environment variables and then `fnox` (from the same author) to encrypt and manage the secrets. `mise` has a plugin for `fnox` that allows to
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by Kydlaw 9mo ago
I have a love-hate relationship with GitHub Actions. Love because they are right there in my GitHub repository. Hate because they are very brittle once you move out of the happy path. It seems GitLab has a much better experience in this dep
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by Kydlaw 11mo ago
You might have accidentally described what accounting is.
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Today Is Earth Overshoot Day(overshoot.footprintnetwork.org)
2 points by Kydlaw 1y ago|0 comments
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Mistral reports on the environmental impact of LLMs(mistral.ai)
69 points by Kydlaw 1y ago|57 comments
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by Kydlaw 1y ago
You should give a try to https://pixi.sh/latest/ (I am not involve in the project). They are a little more focus on scientific computing than uv, which is more general. They might be a better option in your case.
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by Kydlaw 1y ago
We explored LangGraph last November and were pleasantly surprised by the difference with LangChain. The framework had much more care put in it. It was much easier to iterate and the final solutions felt less brittle. BUt the pricing model a
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by Kydlaw 1y ago
I discovered Marimo a couple weeks/months ago here iirc. This really lands on a sweet spot for me for data exploration. For me the features that really nails it are the easy imports from other modules, the integrated UI components, and
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by Kydlaw 1y ago
In the list that you filtered and hand picked yourself there is literally "War crimes committed in Serbia". The article linked is mentioning a researcher that spoke badly about the US president. Help me understand how these two th
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Learning Theory from First Principles [pdf](di.ens.fr)
2 points by Kydlaw 2y ago|0 comments
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by Kydlaw 2y ago
In fact they are mentioning LangGraph (the agent framework from the LangChain company). Imo LangGraph is a much more thoughtful and better built piece of software than the LangChain framework. As I said, they already mention LangGraph in th
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by Kydlaw 2y ago
I am adding a blog post, shared on HN a couple months ago, that show an architectural cross section of the city. https://cohost.org/belarius/post/6677850-architectural-cross (I am not the author of the blog, nor t
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by Kydlaw 2y ago
I am so puzzled by this attitude. People are free to make any distinction they want, the way they want, but the representation you have of a scientific literature is erroneous. Scientific articles are informational tools that report results
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by Kydlaw 2y ago
Concerning the currency symbol positioning, yes, it is indeed country-dependent. Countries of the Commonwealth usually place the currency sign in front of the figure, but most european do not, and instead place the symbol after the figure.
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by Kydlaw 2y ago
Everybody is talking about the existential risk posed by AI but this guys release this tool in the wild without any rail guards... concerning, really. A bit more seriously, it can be really useful to have a graph of ArXiv tabs instead of a
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by Kydlaw 2y ago
Hi! Informative piece to the ones that need it. Also, your last paragraphs 4 are duplicated, I guess?
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by Kydlaw 2y ago
>> often to the point where it's one of the strings attached to the money, that you can't publicly disclose who made the donation. TIL. Philanthropy is not big where I live so I don't know the ins and outs of it.
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by Kydlaw 2y ago
Same here... except maybe in the opposite direction? Does it implies that their other philanthropy would not benefit from more public support? So what are they in this case? Anyway, they do whatever they want with their philanthropy in the
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by Kydlaw 2y ago
I recently moved to data engineering role where everything uses GCP services (think BigQuery, DataProc, Cloud Storage, ...) and wondered is all that was really necessary? What would be the simple yet robust infra for data eng? Not thought a
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by Kydlaw 2y ago
The next paragraph explains that: "When looking at the test coverage numbers alone, Sail’s capability may seem limited. But we have found that there is a long tail of failed tests due to formatting discrepancies, edge cases, and less-u
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by Kydlaw 2y ago
I wasn't expecting Elon Musk as a proofreader for PG's essays. To me that's interesting just by itself. That might be personal bias, but I think the idea that PG is developing here already stem a lot in the Agile movement (no
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by Kydlaw 2y ago
I personally find this information frightening... we are now in a world where management no longer even listens to its engineers or technical experts when they warn of serious dangers. Obviously everyone thinks of Boeing, and today it'
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by Kydlaw 2y ago
If I understand correctly what you are looking for, Ollama might be a solution ( https://ollama.com/ )?. I have no affiliation, but I lazily use this solution when I want to run a quick model locally.
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by Kydlaw 2y ago
This type of comment is one of the two reasons I'm still opening comments on HN. Thank you for the laugh.
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by Kydlaw 2y ago
IMO LangChain provides very high level abstractions that are very useful for prototyping. It allows you to abstract away components while you dig deeper on some parts that will deliver actual value. But aside from that, I don't think I
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by Kydlaw 2y ago
I am genuinely curious of how they are going to design the matching system. Which features are going to be used to describe individuals? I feel like the government has access to many more data than a private company, and the temptation to t

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