data-ottawa

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by data-ottawa 6d ago
> In fact, with Astra and Fable I feel like not only are the costs astronomical, but the models are also just not for me as a software engineer. This is how I’m feeling as well. The models are so happy to run and implement that they forg
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by data-ottawa 7d ago
It’s a contrived example, but also not very far from the mark. The spinner with random claudisms is what makes the game, mixed with Claude helpfully deciding to pick up some tasks along the way. I feel like most of my conversations with Cla
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by data-ottawa 19d ago
There are differences in labour and environmental laws that I do actually want a tariff to equalize. If we have standards and laws it’s unfair to allow outsourced competition to skirt them and collect the savings. That’s a recipe for disast
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by data-ottawa 20d ago
I would be lying to say this doesn’t piss me off. I’m very angry. My wife made a great point: this is a wake up call for me to channel my frustration into local activism. So I’ll be doing that. If any other angry Canucks are reading this, c
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by data-ottawa 21d ago
It’s definitely a heavy thinker, like most Qwens. I see strings like “write, now.” In the thinning traces then it goes on to think for a lot longer, so it’s kind of weird. I haven’t figured out hope to use this effectively yet on my strix h
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by data-ottawa 21d ago
Donald Trump has said exactly this, repeatedly, for two years straight. He posted a picture of him taking over Canada and arresting Carney today. That is not propaganda. And if you say it's "joking", if you threaten to shoot
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by data-ottawa 21d ago
We should still expect significant performance improvements. I believe Unsloth’s branch (and ggml’s) don’t support MTP or the ngram embedding yet.
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by data-ottawa 21d ago
Also did not expect this. I did expect MotherDuck to acquire them at some point (in fact, I kinda thought they already did!)
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by data-ottawa 25d ago
It is under-utilized and not getting the attention it deserves.
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by data-ottawa 25d ago
It probably means nothing, but it’s now impossible to rationally say Canada is acting unjustifiably or targeting the US to legitimately trigger these new tariffs. It’s like a PIP for our relationship with the US. However the US government i
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by data-ottawa 27d ago
The only solution I’ve found that works is asking Mistral medium to rewrite all of Claude’s documentation and comments, then I review and rewrite the final draft for anything mistral misunderstood. I find Claude has become very difficult to
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by data-ottawa 27d ago
There’s a good Star Trek TNG episode about this: When the Bough Breaks (S1E16)
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by data-ottawa 29d ago
I always wonder if minimum wage does more harm than good. This conversation usually derails, so to be clear no, I don’t think people should work for poverty wages, a viable business should include happy non-subsidized employees. My question
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by data-ottawa 1mo ago
I use this in a customer facing application and Gemini’s speed makes the experience feel much better. The application isn’t so complicated that you need opus level reasoning or code writing, we need “good enough” data retrieval and processi
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by data-ottawa 1mo ago
Currently in Keflavík, it is very wet, but I can see a pocket of blue sky in the clouds. My trip coincides, I’ve been camping across the country and the rain has followed me across the whole island It has been an incredible trip Edit: it wa
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by data-ottawa 1mo ago
It’s nice I can send LinkedIn instead of keeping my resume up to date and redoing it I have gotten jobs through contractions on it, which materially improved my life. And I have old acquaintances that I like to know what they’re up to/
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by data-ottawa 1mo ago
This is basically Thunderbolt and why most of cables I buy are either braided charge cables or Thunderbolt 3/4 for data. They’re usually labelled with their version too. You do have to worry about active bs passive after 1m or so lengt
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by data-ottawa 1mo ago
I always give people a ton of leeway in an interview because nobody is at their best in that situation. I once got asked how to use window functions in SQL, with like 10 years of SQL experience using window functions and froze. I much prefe
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by data-ottawa 2mo ago
It’s felt like this since 4.7 to me. I have mistral medium rewrite almost everything that’s text Claude outputs.
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by data-ottawa 2mo ago
I liked marquee too… I might have poor taste lol
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by data-ottawa 2mo ago
I have tried using Flint vs asking the AI to generate a Vega lite spec directly, and in my opinion Flint was not as nice of a solution. Flint is fine for doing predetermined chat types, with very low customization. But I found using an agen
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by data-ottawa 2mo ago
I actually like the shimmer effect, I think it’s preferable to almost all spinners. If the agent is set up to properly show intent then this is better than spinners or exponentially decreasing loading bars.
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by data-ottawa 2mo ago
FYI the scrolling on iPad with trackpad is broken. A full swipe on the trackpad is about 1 inch of screen movement.
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by data-ottawa 2mo ago
Right, but there’s zero correlation between urban population percentage and cars per capita either, which was surprising to me. I’d have expected a vague logistic curve.
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by data-ottawa 2mo ago
I immediately thought that’s not totally fair due to the size of the Netherlands vs other countries. I asked Mistral to do an analysis: nearly zero R^2 for car ownership vs log country area, and it’s the same with proportion of urban popula
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by data-ottawa 2mo ago
I think it’s a lot like R vs SAS or Python and not any departure from the norm. Mathematicians are not highly technical users that generally like programming. If you give them a path of importing someone else’s work they’ll do that instead
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by data-ottawa 2mo ago
Basically every company I’ve worked for has had some sort of rubric like this. I don’t think that’s inherently bad, it can be quite good for consistency. I have quit companies that made their performance review systems too onerous/freq
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by data-ottawa 2mo ago
Is the reload module very different than the base watch flag, and does the notebook editor use PyCharm/JetBrains' editor interfac, or is the notebook's editor completely embedded in PyCharm? --- As usual on marimo posts I hav
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by data-ottawa 2mo ago
The big thing I read is Codeberg is for community projects explicitly now, not just your random non-commercial code. Personal use cases are now “might go unnoticed” and therefore not encouraged. Jeff’s dotfiles repo will probably never have
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by data-ottawa 2mo ago
I'm able to use ROCm with MTP just fine (Qwen and Gemma). I use Lemonade and have only the ROCm installed through it (ETA: their llama.cpp version is a fork, not sure what is different vs the main trunk).

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