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by johnwatson11218 19d ago
Isn't this the perfect use case for LLM driven code refactoring? Hey AI - Here is an app with poorly implemented keyboard shortcuts etc.. Make it adhere to this well defined standard. I think these simple fixes are where LLMs are going
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by johnwatson11218 5mo ago
https://github.com/johnwatson11218/LatentTopicExplorer/ This tool allows you to read in a collection of pdf files and it will use AI to create clusters of documents based on semantic content. Pdfplumber -> pos
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by johnwatson11218 7mo ago
I'm using postgres as part of my current project - https://github.com/johnwatson11218/LatentTopicExplorer I had added Spacey to my codebase for one of its features and found that just doing the work in the db was
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by johnwatson11218 8mo ago
I posted my code https://github.com/johnwatson11218/LatentTopicExplorer
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by johnwatson11218 8mo ago
https://github.com/johnwatson11218/LatentTopicExplorer You have to use docker compose to get to localhost:8000 , there are still bugs but I'm working on it and there was interest expressed in this project on Hacke
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by johnwatson11218 8mo ago
Thanks for the supportive comments. I'm definitely thinking I should release sooner rather than later. I have been using LLM for specific tasks and here is some sample stored procedure I had an LLM write for me. -- -- Name: refresh_top
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by johnwatson11218 8mo ago
I did something similar whereby I used pdfplumber to extract text from my pdf book collection. I dumped it into postgresql, then chunked the text into 100 char chunks w/ a 10 char overlap. These chunks were directly embedded into a 384
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by johnwatson11218 9mo ago
I've read that by the end of ancient Egyptian history they had used tricks like a picture of an eye for the letter or sound 'I' or a picture of a bee for the sound of 'B' there was a complete alphabet embedded withi
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by johnwatson11218 9mo ago
They talk about the specific systems in terms of legacy code and how far removed government agencies are from automated testing and other modern, best practices. It has been a couple of years since I read it but I recall a part about a busi
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by johnwatson11218 9mo ago
If you want to know what you are up against I highly recommend - https://www.amazon.com/Recoding-America-Government-Failing-D... This book discusses the IT systems at the IRS and VA and shows the kind of push back you can e
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by johnwatson11218 10mo ago
I have a pdf of this book and was using LLM to translate the old code into modern, idiomatic python and it is very cool. I wonder if somebody will re-release it with modern code and tooling? In fact , google Gemini was able to do it on the
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by johnwatson11218 10mo ago
I have a pipeline in Docker compose that starts up postgresql on one container and a python container. The python scripts will recursively read all the pdf files in a directory, use pdf plumber to parse the text to store in a postgres table
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by johnwatson11218 11mo ago
I just got a project running whereby I used python + pdfplumber to read in 1100 pdf files, most of my humble bundle collection. I extracted the text and dumped it into a 'documents' table in postgresql. Then I used sentence transf
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by johnwatson11218 1y ago
Everyone is talking about having LLMs write software but what about having them delete code? That can be very hard in a legacy enterprise environment. I think dead code detection overlaps with security and that is a good way to sell that ki
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by johnwatson11218 1y ago
I think the Oracle Transaction Manager is one of the best pieces of software that I had to work with in a professional settings. Lots of other stuff in an enterprise setting is very flaky and follows trends but the Oracle internals seem ver
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by johnwatson11218 1y ago
My prompt that I couldn't get the LLM to understand was the following. I was having it generate images of depressing offices with no windows and with lots of depressing, grey cubicles with paper all over the floor. In addition, the emp
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by johnwatson11218 1y ago
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by johnwatson11218 1y ago
I was working with deepseek to distill my thoughts on this and the best quote was " This resembles a lossy compression of software, where the "loss" is non-essential complexity.". "literate programming meets LLMs&qu
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by johnwatson11218 1y ago
Why did mathematicians invent new symbols? Imagine if all of algebra, calculus, linear algebra looked like those word problems from antiquity? Natural language is not good for describing systems, symbolic forms are more compressed and be co
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by johnwatson11218 2y ago
A good game is supposed to be "easy to learn and hard to master". I think software abstractions should have this property as well. Too often the next "fix" in a long chain of failed ideas in overly engineered software fe
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by johnwatson11218 2y ago
I have wanted to do something like this for news websites for a while now. I tried the recipe site, my first url from lifehacker wasn't supported, the second attempt from the curated list gave an error loading site, so maybe make the l
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by johnwatson11218 2y ago
There was a documentary on Prime Video a couple of years ago that followed a card counter as he moved from casino to casino living out of his RV. I think he was up around $600K after one year. He was having to get kicked out of small casino
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by johnwatson11218 2y ago
The article you linked, "tetris-sql," appears to be using database extensions to overcome SQL's limitations. While the core SQL language itself is not Turing complete, these extensions, such as Common Table Expressions (CTEs)
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by johnwatson11218 2y ago
I think asking here is a good idea but you should also try this question on the LLMs like perplexity, chatGPT , etc. This question might be too high level and not contain enough context, but you can ask the model how to focus your questio
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by johnwatson11218 2y ago
Yes that is correct, I had read a different article that had a more rust first focus. I just tried to google for a reference to the news release I was referencing, but yea it doesn't really support my comment :(
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by johnwatson11218 2y ago
Recently the federal government issued a security advisory encouraging all new development to be done in Rust. I'm not sure the extent of which agencies this was meant to cover but it struck me as very unrealistic having just done year
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by johnwatson11218 2y ago
I think a lot of the mis-match comes from scale. Most companies want to be operating at 10X of whatever they currently are doing. So there is a clear bias towards solutions that can auto scale and are easy for growing companies to hire for.
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by johnwatson11218 2y ago
When the teams struggle to get a baseline suite working, adding k8s is not helpful.
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by johnwatson11218 2y ago
Last year I left a job that was about to give me the maintenance of a poorly implemented kafka system. I'm so glad I left before I really had to work with that system. Since then I've been reading about async and await in the newe
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by johnwatson11218 2y ago
My favorite was when a manager tried to get me to agree with the statement that "math was just for the numbers right?". Meaning not character strings nor dates. I was dumbstruck by the question.

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