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The_Amp_Walrus

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About The_Amp_Walrus

https://mattsegal.dev

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    Show HN: A personal feed that turns videos/podcasts/blogs into Twitter-y threads

    I originally built this site as a content aggregator that would pull in blogs and podcasts and YouTube videos that I was interested in. I found I wasn't really reading very many of…

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    Location: Melbourne, Australia Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: AI/LLMs, Django, FastAPI, Pandas, React/TypeScript, AWS, Terraform, Postgres Résumé/CV: https://mat…

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    a school is an institution that teaches people your definition of "actually a school" seems to arbitrarily include a lot of reporting and paperwork and commerce that have nothing t…

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    you're conflating "not having an overwhelming negative reaction to it" with "never feel anything about it" you can know something is bad and act accordingly without having a disord…

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    On this topic I really enjoyed reading "Autism as a disorder of dimensionality" https://opentheory.net/2023/05/autism-as-a-disorder-of-dimen... I'm just a casual reader I can't vou…

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    Location: Melbourne, Australia Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Django, FastAPI, Pandas, React, AWS, Terraform, Postgres, LLMs Résumé/CV: https://mattsegal.github.…

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    I might be wrong about this but doesn't ollama do some work to ensure the model runs efficiently given your hardware? Like choosing between how much gpu memory to consume so you do…

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    Location: Melbourne, Australia Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Django, FastAPI, Pandas, React, AWS, Terraform, Postgres, LLMs Résumé/CV: https://mattsegal.github.…

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    I did a more detailed yt video on django query optimisation (mostly for ppl new to the framework) for those interested https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uoI6pvuvYs

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    I've been using this for the last few weeks and it's been a lot of fun, both for work and just screwing around. Curious if there are any other tiny jobs or workflows people have be…

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    Zen Buddhism reference: A monk asked Zhaozhou, 'Does even a dog have Buddha Nature?'

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    I enjoyed this course https://youtu.be/2pWv7GOvuf0?si=DKkhPXQmVjA3ySIn

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    Anika Legal | Melbourne, Australia | ONSITE (~2 days in office) | https://www.anikalegal.com/ We provide free, online legal assistance to people who can’t access it otherwise (in V…

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    why does employer not say "dear whoever, this employee is clearly an idiot, and whatever they say on their private twitter does not represent our views" seems easier than firing so…

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    is there an implicit assumption that we're operating on the same domain here for the frontend and backend I'm not sure that it's so easily handled if you're working from www.foo.co…

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    Also 'easy' to model as a lookup table containing all possible solutions.

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    Comment #33513998

    You haven't made it clear why the author should take an economics class - what are they doing wrong or what money are they leaving on the table?

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    > as soon as we get more efficient things, we just consume more That doesn't seem to be true in terms of C02 output https://www.google.com/search?q=us+carbon+emissions+per+capi...

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    Nand 2 Tetris: https://www.nand2tetris.org/ In which you, more or less, build a computer from scratch. The course takes you through 12 projects, about 1 week each, where you increm…

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    I cannot get it to search - Chrome on Windows type in query to search bar, press enter, nothing happens no network request gets sent no console logs

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    Descript maybe