cckolon

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Building (and Selling) AI for the Government(carlkolon.com)
1 points by cckolon 1mo ago|0 comments
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An American Mosaic (interactive map of ancestry census data)(nytimes.com)
29 points by cckolon 1mo ago|8 comments
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Comparing React and Htmx for Building Chatbots(carlkolon.com)
1 points by cckolon 1mo ago|0 comments
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by cckolon 1mo ago
Thank you :)
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by cckolon 1mo ago
I love these! “Not Quite the Same” sounds a lot like “The Wrong Abstraction” from my list. It’s a really important point and I’m glad to see there are more articles about it!
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by cckolon 1mo ago
Thanks for the callout! I have much more experience with geography but you’re totally right. I’ll add a note
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Carl's Required Reading(carlkolon.com)
237 points by cckolon 2mo ago|31 comments
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by cckolon 3mo ago
The US Navy still uses nomograms for chemistry control on nuclear reactors!
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by cckolon 3mo ago
This is so cool. I would have loved this in college.
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by cckolon 3mo ago
I’m implementing the Lox programming language (from Crafting Interpreters [0]) in Rust. https://github.com/cckolon/rlox [0] https://craftinginterpreters.com/
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by cckolon 3mo ago
Exploration-exploitation tradeoff strikes again
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by cckolon 7mo ago
How does this differ from something like MarineTraffic?
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747s and coding agents(carlkolon.com)
176 points by cckolon 7mo ago|90 comments
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by cckolon 7mo ago
Your computer is a sweet machine
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by cckolon 8mo ago
Nice, that’s really cool.
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by cckolon 8mo ago
I use full length vectors (512 dimensions) and have seen very fast lookups with pgvector (HNSW index) and sqlite-vec on 20k vectors. I think any decent vector database should be able to handle 44k entries… which one are you using now?
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by cckolon 8mo ago
This is really cool. How is reranking built in? Is there a model that runs inside the database? If so, how did you choose it?
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by cckolon 8mo ago
Thanks! Yeah embedding is simple enough and my needs were small enough that I didn’t want to pay. Both llama-server and ollama are great options, and if container size isn’t an issue you get a greater variety running what you want with sent
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by cckolon 8mo ago
This is a really cool idea. By “different models” do you mean models fine tuned on different sources? How would you decide how to classify chunks?
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Tuning Semantic Search on JFMM.net – Joint Fleet Maintenance Manual(carlkolon.com)
28 points by cckolon 8mo ago|12 comments
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by cckolon 8mo ago
Aren’t most inventions anti-labor by this rationale? We employ fewer farmers than we used to, but this is good for society because people who would be farmers are now working on other things.
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by cckolon 8mo ago
https://carlkolon.com My submarine combat game was on the front page a while ago! https://bearingsonly.net
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RL for Two-Month-Olds(carlkolon.com)
1 points by cckolon 11mo ago|0 comments
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Karpathy's comments on the Sutton/Dwarkesh podcast(twitter.com)
10 points by cckolon 1y ago|0 comments
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Rolling My Own Analytics(carlkolon.com)
1 points by cckolon 1y ago|0 comments
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Astronaut Photography Interactive Map(eol.jsc.nasa.gov)
2 points by cckolon 1y ago|1 comments
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by cckolon 1y ago
> 5 - 9 means strong effects, definitely not placebo. It’s impossible for anyone to say this convincingly about their own experience. If it were easy to tell whether an effect was due to placebo, we wouldn’t need blinded trials!
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by cckolon 1y ago
Reminds me of Randall Monroe’s obsession with Simple English https://xkcd.com/547/
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by cckolon 1y ago
Example 01 is basically the “green jellybeans cause acne” problem https://xkcd.com/882/
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by cckolon 1y ago
My wife is a doctor. When I showed her this paper she said “that’s true for humans as well”.

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