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Surely this logic doesn't apply if we're to believe that "code is cheap" now :p

Skills in CC have been a bit frustrating for me. They don't trigger reliably and the emphasis on "it's just markdown" makes it harder to have them reliably call certain tools with …

Notion AI is pretty great for both search and writing.

Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/55/

Giving them more credit than they probably deserve but: when you're solving "by hand" like they are in the show, keeping a known non-match couple together may actually be helpful f…

Thanks! Optimization was something I'd played with in previous rounds of coding up AYTO simulations, but not in the most recent version. (See the bottom section of this notebook [0…

As a math guy who loves reality tv, I was also drawn to the show and wrote a blog post [0] about how to programmatically calculate the probabilities as the show progresses. It was …

I've been building a little toy computer and assembly language that's interpreted in python. Pretty close to the first release (and introductory blog post) and a lot of fun to buil…

That insane behavior around acting on the highlighted image instead of the selected image has finally been fixed: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/issues/16850#issu...

I gave a very short talk (now a blog post) about embeddings and we use them to bridge the gap between human notions of understanding and digital representations. It might be of int…

> I doubt that any recommendation system is capable of providing meaningful results in absence of the "awareness" about the actual content (be it music, books, movies or anything e…

I recently had a letter published in The New Yorker in response to Andrew Marantz's (excellent) story "Among the A.I. Doomsayers." In particular, I wanted to highlight that extremi…

Hey Francois, congrats to you and the team on the launch! I've generally chosen Pytorch over Tensorflow for my day to day, but now that Keras is framework agnostic I'm excited to r…

Annoy came out of Spotify, and they just announced their successor library Voyager [1] last week [2]. [1]: https://github.com/spotify/voyager [2]: https://engineering.atspotify.com…

Any particular reason to highlight this release? 1.4 introduced Properties, which is cool, but this is just a minor release.

This looks really cool. One thing I've wondered about with, e.g., the OpenAI API is if json is really a good format for passing embeddings back and forth. I'd think that passing fl…

It was a bummer when the O'Reilly benefit last year [0], but I'm glad they're bringing it back at a steep discount from the street price. Access to thousands of O'Reilly books, Man…

Funny enough, I did this same project (minus the fancy web interface) for a numerical linear algebra course in college—except I had to do it in Matlab. It's worse than just about a…

I maintain a list of well-known or foundational papers in ML in a github repo that may be of interest to readers of this thread https://github.com/daturkel/learning-papers

I appreciate the post. The linked version is to the draft I shared while still writing. Here's the permalink to the final version: https://danturkel.com/2022/12/27/advent-of-code-2…

I created a Github repo that tracks "classic papers" of machine learning that folks on HN have enjoyed in the past. Feel free to make a PR if you think I'm missing something good. …

I've made a few measurable goals for 2022 that I wrote up on my personal site [0]: - read 25 books (3 of which are "technical") - write 12 blog posts - take one online course - get…

Python is not fully a functional programming language but it supports some functional patterns. There's a nice mini-ebook by David Mertz on functional programming in Python, and it…