Viewing profile — data-ottawa

It’s nice I can send LinkedIn instead of keeping my resume up to date and redoing it I have gotten jobs through contractions on it, which materially improved my life. And I have ol…

This is basically Thunderbolt and why most of cables I buy are either braided charge cables or Thunderbolt 3/4 for data. They’re usually labelled with their version too. You do hav…

I always give people a ton of leeway in an interview because nobody is at their best in that situation. I once got asked how to use window functions in SQL, with like 10 years of S…

It’s felt like this since 4.7 to me. I have mistral medium rewrite almost everything that’s text Claude outputs.

I liked marquee too… I might have poor taste lol

I have tried using Flint vs asking the AI to generate a Vega lite spec directly, and in my opinion Flint was not as nice of a solution. Flint is fine for doing predetermined chat t…

I actually like the shimmer effect, I think it’s preferable to almost all spinners. If the agent is set up to properly show intent then this is better than spinners or exponentiall…

FYI the scrolling on iPad with trackpad is broken. A full swipe on the trackpad is about 1 inch of screen movement.

Right, but there’s zero correlation between urban population percentage and cars per capita either, which was surprising to me. I’d have expected a vague logistic curve.

I immediately thought that’s not totally fair due to the size of the Netherlands vs other countries. I asked Mistral to do an analysis: nearly zero R^2 for car ownership vs log cou…

I think it’s a lot like R vs SAS or Python and not any departure from the norm. Mathematicians are not highly technical users that generally like programming. If you give them a pa…

Basically every company I’ve worked for has had some sort of rubric like this. I don’t think that’s inherently bad, it can be quite good for consistency. I have quit companies that…

Is the reload module very different than the base watch flag, and does the notebook editor use PyCharm/JetBrains' editor interfac, or is the notebook's editor completely embedded i…

The big thing I read is Codeberg is for community projects explicitly now, not just your random non-commercial code. Personal use cases are now “might go unnoticed” and therefore n…

I'm able to use ROCm with MTP just fine (Qwen and Gemma). I use Lemonade and have only the ROCm installed through it (ETA: their llama.cpp version is a fork, not sure what is diffe…

Most games play just fine at 1440 or 4K with upscaling. Cyberpunk ray tracing is a bad experience, but I just finished 007 First Light on ultra settings with an 5k monitor using FS…

SQL generation is quite good, 90% of the problem is data quality. The best thing you can do for your data agent is build a clean frontroom around your specific desired use cases --…

In addition to the other comment mentioning rpm-ostree, brew is installed on bazzite by default and works about as well as it does on macOS. You can also use fedora toolboxes to cr…

Yes, gessoed canvas. Canvas isn’t a particularly good surface for charcoal, but I like having a very large work area

I’ve taken to painting with charcoal lately. I draw with vine charcoal, smudge and adjust, then wash it on canvas with a brush dipped in water, it makes a nice watercolour style ef…

I built some BigQuery workflows on 2.0 and 2.5 flash lite that are something like 6x more expensive with 3.1 flash lite. I tried 3 flash for months and it didn’t work using Googles…

Lemonade proxies your request to llama.cpp that it installs and manages. Is out of the box all local LLMs, but you can connect it to an API endpoint (supports OpenAI compatible or …

I second this. I used llama swap for a while before leaning into lemonade. The UI has improved a lot, but be careful as the most of the models default to very small 4K context wind…

Tmux with vim as a 50% split, I’ll run an agent in a quarter split. I have neovim hooked up to a local llama.cpp (through lemonade) for completion, but I have not found a plugin th…

I built a small one of these as a calculator back in the day, it was fun and I always wanted to see someone really run with the idea more, so your project is super cool! Did you ev…