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AI as Search Engine and Printing Press Aid: Local Education Data Munging(middlesexgazette.org)
1 points by mrkiouak 2mo ago|1 comments
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by mrkiouak 2mo ago
I spent the past week or so trying to figure out how my local school district and the rest of Vermont had trended over time on academic achievement. Vermont has a lot of unique circumstances I won't go into here, but there also have be
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by mrkiouak 3mo ago
Excellent writeup from someone who clearly cares about hitting the intersection of "good for customers, good for himself and investors, and good for employees". We'd be much better off with people thinking and acting in line
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by mrkiouak 3mo ago
It's weird to see someone present as novel what is like talking about the weather, at least for the average person in the U.S. (not in the Bay Area, in the U.S.). It's fascinating to me that the large companies never did anything
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by mrkiouak 3mo ago
I love revisiting RDF/OWL Semantic Web formats every 10 years. One of these years will be the one! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web
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by mrkiouak 3mo ago
As someone who worked at Google, it is absolutely ridiculous to claim Google only lost its moral compass in this decade, let alone suggest it HAD its moral compass in 2017 when the guy was wired. Complete joke, do some introspection.
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LLMs can't read PDFs in 2026?(musings-mr.net)
2 points by mrkiouak 4mo ago|1 comments
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by mrkiouak 4mo ago
I was surprised standard prompting techniques couldn't coax accurate financial budget line items from frontier models. There are ~250 of these pdfs published every year, each town does it differently, but many towns are surprisingly co
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Town Budget Explainer Site(middlesexbudget.org)
2 points by mrkiouak 8mo ago|1 comments
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by mrkiouak 8mo ago
A site I put together while volunteering for my Vermont town, made heavy, heavy use of Claude Code (and occasional Gemini (both UI & Vertex for initial Annual Town Report summaries & highlights). Really pleased with how much time LL
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by mrkiouak 10mo ago
Yeah, not only are people doing this, but this is possibly one of the most common problems int he real world with real people. The blog post may have some helpful suggestions, but these descriptions seem to signal a really large "human
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by mrkiouak 10mo ago
Bonus comment: I was present for conversations about how Google should just write an internal version because of all the stability issues, but that that work would never get prioritized or be considered valuable because it wouldn't get
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by mrkiouak 10mo ago
As someone who worked as a software engineer at Google on a service that heavily depended on FFmpeg, its absurd that Google posts security bugs (which have the obvious potential outcome of driving more free work) vs just paying an engineer
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by mrkiouak 10mo ago
The key thing I'm confident in is that 2-3 years from now there's going to be a model(s) and workflow that has comparable accuracy, perhaps noticeable (but tolerable) higher latency that can be run locally. There's just no re
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My go to tech stack for hosting Web Apps (including vibe coded variety)(musings-mr.net)
3 points by mrkiouak 1y ago|2 comments
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by mrkiouak 1y ago
I have been around a little while, so I reach for what I think of as boring tech for hosting my own stuff. I'd love to hear about 1) the bulletproof stuff people use for their own stack, 2) the "cool new thing" that you'
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Show HN: Provide a short description, get animated character with deep backstory(ki-storygen.com)
4 points by mrkiouak 1y ago|1 comments
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Show HN: Structured Character and Illustrated Fiction(musings-mr.net)
1 points by mrkiouak 1y ago|0 comments
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Gemini Flash 2.5, Imagen 4 and Veo 2 Chaining for Multi-modal Characters(musings-mr.net)
1 points by mrkiouak 1y ago|1 comments
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by mrkiouak 1y ago
I would love to see comments for other fun/entertainment oriented sites using GenAI people have seen. I think I've read a lot from what the big Foundation Model Co's are developing, but really interested to hear what more &qu
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Chaining text, image and video generation for character continuity(musings-mr.net)
2 points by mrkiouak 1y ago|0 comments
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Thoughts on one thing GenAI is good for today(musings-mr.net)
1 points by mrkiouak 1y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Little Golden Books' Interactive GenAI Experience(musings-mr.net)
1 points by mrkiouak 1y ago|0 comments
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Children's Story and Illustration Generator (requires signup for rate limiting)(musings-mr.net)
3 points by mrkiouak 1y ago|1 comments
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by mrkiouak 1y ago
Uses the gemini flash 2.5 preview version from today, but still uses Imagen 3 for image generation (I was getting a "publisher endpoint does not exist" when trying to use the Imagen 4 preview model name). Requires you go through a
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Problems in GenerativeAI: Continuity(musings-mr.net)
1 points by mrkiouak 1y ago|0 comments
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by mrkiouak 1y ago
I screwed up an edit, which generated a new post id and updated the url in my hastily thrown together blog code (note to self: make the url path a stable string based on the article content :)). Updated url: https://musings-mr.ne
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Problems in toy GenAI: Consistency across generations (corrected url in comment)(musings-mr.net)
2 points by mrkiouak 1y ago|2 comments
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by mrkiouak 1y ago
Talks about a problem I hadn't foreseen when I started working on the experiment. Curious if theres other blogs or research that address the "stay consistent across different mediums where it isn't feasible to keep everythin