mootothemax

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by mootothemax 13d ago
I recently created a planning applications scraper for every council/local planning authority in the UK, very much with Claude's help. As you can no doubt imagine, it's the type of task where the mechanics are far less import
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by mootothemax 2mo ago
Is this resident population or ambient? I've been building a UK-wide 24-hour population dataset lately, and it's really opened my eyes to how much population data is best-guess-estimate - including census figures - and quite how d
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by mootothemax 2mo ago
Interesting. How do they tell the difference between legitimate and forged ip owner records?
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by mootothemax 2mo ago
> The anubis author has stated they recognize it's an arms race, but PoW scales. The scraper wars are largely between script kiddies and people with both deep intimate networking and DOM knowledge. Yes greyhairs, I’m looking at you.
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by mootothemax 3mo ago
Can any LLM give you the rough pixel coordinates of an item it identifies in an image? I found that while Claude, GPT etc could describe an image, there was no way to link the description back to specific pixels in the image itself. Not eve
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by mootothemax 3mo ago
In your first comment, replace “until today” with “since then” and you’re good! “Until today” is one of those English phrases that is particularly unfair on non-native speakers. You know “until” and you know “today” and so it’s completely
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by mootothemax 3mo ago
If you haven’t investigated storing in parquet format - and it doesn’t break other consumers that need your jsonl formatted files - it could be worth trialling for your use case. You’ll see vastly smaller file sizes (even more so if you use
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by mootothemax 3mo ago
It’s great compression: Y sometimes a vowel, sometimes a consonant. And while not encoded on a keyboard, it still blows my mind that English has a crazy number of past tenses - and a such a bad hack of a future tense that it’s hard to class
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by mootothemax 4mo ago
Speaking from the scraper’s perspective, I like proof of work; a ten year old 96-core server will cost a couple of quid to run for a few hours and will grab an absurd number of pages thanks to the access granted by repeatedly solving proofs
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by mootothemax 4mo ago
Exactly. I’m constantly amazed at how little you actually need to bypass CF, Amazon, Azure WAFs and so on (Incapsula springs to mind too). When you look at the code you’ve come up with, it’s actually quite small and compact. More to the poi
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by mootothemax 4mo ago
I suspect that introducing the calibration concept might be a case of too much too soon for some people. As far as I understand it, the various probability matrices boil down to: what token has the highest likelihood of coming next, given t
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by mootothemax 4mo ago
The irony for me being that when I was first learning Polish and looking for any and all mnemonics - “ah, that word is the number nine, and that one is ten because it has an s in the middle and that’s next to t for ten in the alphabet”-leve
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by mootothemax 4mo ago
I think I may have fallen victim to a GP midflight edit - I agree with you fwiw, it’s a stone cold fact.
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by mootothemax 4mo ago
> Germans are Nemci in Russian as well I wanted to check; are you implying that Russian is not a Slavic language?
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by mootothemax 4mo ago
Recommend looking up the pronunciation of that there afon :)
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by mootothemax 5mo ago
Makes sense given Welsh’s evolution from Britannic. Much to my shame, I only started visiting Wales in later life, and there’s really something in the language that grabs me quite deeply. Once I’ve got my Polish down to pat, I tell myself.
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by mootothemax 5mo ago
It’s lovely isn’t it? There’re a good few of these things around: notably Torpenhow Hill (which killjoys dispute); and ones like Pendle Hill (which they don’t).
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by mootothemax 5mo ago
If you can find a way to combine this with local population to end up at pence per litre per thousand population, I bet you’d uncover some fun trends. Bet it’d also get interesting if combined with population within an X min drive too. Tho
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by mootothemax 5mo ago
> what is Avon? Welsh for river.
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by mootothemax 5mo ago
> With Maplibre or any modern map SDK this this is standard… In practise, this doesn’t work out as visually pleasing as you’d like; labels repeat, or render partially or not at all, or become interfered with by other labels, or only work
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by mootothemax 5mo ago
> Do you know game theory? Never heard of it. The food there good? > The other devs with less moral can then outperform you. I long for the days where it’s only my moral compass holding me back.
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by mootothemax 5mo ago
Thanks for your thanks! Let me know how you get on, I’d love to know if this is a secret knowledge thing that turns out to work for other people too.
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by mootothemax 5mo ago
For what it’s worth, I cancelled my ChatGPT subscription, and every time I try debugging a Linux system issue, I feel sad that Claude is sooooooo confidently bad at it. Claude is noticeably poor for my use case on this particular issue. Tha
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by mootothemax 5mo ago
Completely by accident, I have a setup that sends a pdf invoice to customers a couple of days after the sale. I’m pretty sure it’s a stripe option I must’ve misclicked. Anyway- turns out that on the rare occasion someone’s had an issue, thi
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by mootothemax 7mo ago
Huh, that’s interesting, I’ve been having very similar thoughts lately about what the near-ish term of this tech looks like. My biggest worry is that the private jet class of people end up with absurdly powerful AI at their fingertips, whil
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by mootothemax 7mo ago
For context, BERT is encoder-only, vs SLMs and LLMs which are decoder-only, and BERT is very much not about generating text, it’s a completely different tech and purpose behind it. I believe some multimodal variants nowadays may muddy the w
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by mootothemax 7mo ago
> > BERT isn’t a SLM Huh? BERT is literally a language model that's small and uses attention. Astute readers will note what’s been missed here. Fascinating, really. Your confidently-statement yet factually void comments I’d have
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by mootothemax 7mo ago
> We had good small language models for decades. (E.g. BERT) BERT isn’t a SLM, and the original was released in 2018. The whole new era kicked off with Attention Is All You Need; we haven’t reached even a single decade of work on it.
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by mootothemax 8mo ago
Oh that is beautiful :) For myself, it’s the feeling of: thank fuck; the grownups have arrived. shoulders lower, everyone takes a deep breath
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by mootothemax 8mo ago
It’s a delight even to have a regulated source of all fuel station locations in the uk! This might be a slight missing woods/trees moment but that aside - there is precious little open geospatial data in the uk that establishes see thi

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