mrdoops

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by mrdoops 4mo ago
It's very nice updating Elixir, having no breaking changes across my many projects and it then the compiler just finds bugs for free. I'm so spoiled.
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by mrdoops 11mo ago
Solar is great but the bottleneck is on battery capacity to carry those noon hours into evening for peak usage. Last I checked we had plenty of lithium and are mostly held back on refinement.
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by mrdoops 1y ago
Thanks, I might hit you up when I'm in the weeds of that feature.
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by mrdoops 1y ago
Any takeaways on using Fly APIs for provisioning isolated environments? I'm looking into doing something similar to Phoenix.new but for a low-code server-less workflow system.
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by mrdoops 1y ago
Manufactured consensus is everywhere there is enough attention to incentivize such an effort. The worst by far is Reddit.
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by mrdoops 1y ago
The important thing is to know fundamentally "why" a rule exists and what goal / organizational objective it's existence and constraints provides. Then breaking it can be productive if it meets the same ends. This usuall
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by mrdoops 2y ago
Main limitation of these kinds of products is that the graph/workflow itself is not very expressive of dataflow options. Eventually you need map, reduce, and state machines and likewise concurrency and durable execution. It's not
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by mrdoops 2y ago
Most expensive part of the typical web app is the coordination cost between front and backend devs. Thus the rational to have 1 dev implement full stack. But the trade-off for coordination costs are heavy context switching and knowledge cos
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by mrdoops 2y ago
The canonical paper on handling software failures: https://erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf
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by mrdoops 2y ago
IMO the big win for Elixir/Nx/Bumblebee/etc is that you can do batched distributed inference out of the box without deploying anything separate to your app or hitting an API. Massive complexity reduction and you can more easi
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by mrdoops 2y ago
Yeah modern ML is not really at all comparable and they're more complementary than modern approaches replacing rules. All these agent frameworks and platforms cropping up will be using things like rules, workflow DAG models and so on a
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by mrdoops 2y ago
My research went in similar directions although I was looking at RETE for rule evaluation as part of a general purpose workflow engine with rules as just one part. Incremental view maintenance is different enough from rule composition and e
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by mrdoops 3y ago
Yeah 100% the root pain is from low agency/trust dynamics of a large org. Jira is just the tool management chooses because nobody-got-fired-for-buying-jira.
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by mrdoops 3y ago
It shipped with a slide out that we can't figure out how remove in the AWS console which is already a dumpster fire of a UX. Every single developer in our org already hates it for just that reason. I'm sure it will be very success
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by mrdoops 3y ago
This is a great resource to map "what library/thing should I use for x situation" which can sometimes be daunting to someone new to an ecosystem. The "niche" label cast at Elixir and its ecosystem hasn't been r
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by mrdoops 3y ago
Sounds like a big issue, better make a Jira ticket for it to get prioritized later.
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by mrdoops 3y ago
Elixir is good at doing a lot of things at once on - scaling to lots of machines - and not exploding catastrophically while doing so. Turns out this is really helpful for machine learning where you want to coordinate big data pipelines and
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by mrdoops 3y ago
* Elixir-lang Intro: https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/introduction.html * Exercism track: https://exercism.org/tracks/elixir * Sasa Juric's book: https://www.manning.com&#x2
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by mrdoops 3y ago
Mojo is pretty cool but its a difficult road to take - especially to implement the breadth of accrued functionality of a 20 year old language like Python. Elixir & Python are not an apples to apples comparison - there are fundamental di
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by mrdoops 3y ago
It's a weird mental block too - learning a language like Elixir, being so well designed and documented, is as comfortable as it gets. Devs we hire without direct Elixir experience pick it up really quick (within a couple weeks). The en
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by mrdoops 3y ago
Liveview v1.0 is the next step with this release out; 1.0 will be the main target for tutorials, documentation, examples and libraries to build on. Easiest way to get component usage examples ATM is to generate a phx project, and run a mix
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by mrdoops 3y ago
I'd say its good for both. Small sites because it is low-bandwidth to figure out how to use. Time is money and if I'm just tinkering on the weekend I don't really want to learn Kubernetes or the labyrinth that is AWS; I just
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by mrdoops 3y ago
Elixir does distribution and concurrency really well, so Fly making multi-region deployments easy makes it a good fit.
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by mrdoops 3y ago
It is bonkers how little code and need-to-now is necessary to deploy cutting edge models in an Elixir app these days. I didn't realize until a recent side project just how much progress had been made in Nx until I started implementing
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by mrdoops 4y ago
It's good, but these models are general purpose starting points - they expect and recommend fine tuning to get excellent results.
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by mrdoops 4y ago
There almost surely will and Elixir/OTP is going to do it best.
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by mrdoops 4y ago
Agreed Elixir/Phoenix + Tailwind is at the sweet spot of scalability, performance, and bonkers productivity. Real time? Need to go distributed? Maximize # of features / developer bandwidth? Cutting edge machine learning trainin
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by mrdoops 4y ago
The biggest $ cost I'd have on my radar WRT AWS vs Fly is complexity and need-to-know of employee time to do any given thing. Fly is way easier to navigate and use than AWS and its labyrinth of Cloud Scale™ horrors. The trade-off being
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by mrdoops 4y ago
Running into concurrency woes of that whole generation of languages (Ruby/Python/PHP/Java/JS) is how most Elixir developers happen I think ;)
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by mrdoops 4y ago
Just make sure you're not genetically bad at Folic Acid in which case you want Methyl-Folate instead.

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