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The recent changes have gotten absurd

Grab some baked goods at Hewn (in Evanston), visit the Bahai temple, and then walk across the street to Gillson Park to wander the Lake Michigan shore and eat your goods from Hewn.…

https://gregreda.com/ I've mostly written technical, code-centric posts on Python, ML, and data science. Some of my early posts (2013) were wildly popular at the time and hit the t…

I initially built this same "chat with PDFs" prototype with LangChain and qdrant. I then rebuilt it from scratch for the sake of learning and comparison. Some context: I've been a …

Not specific to this model, but beyond the large players (OpenAI, Cohere, etc) are there any free hosted versions of the open(ish) LLMs? Even the smaller 7B parameter ones? I'm pro…

I recently prototyped out a "chat over PDF documents" project.[1] I opted to use LanceDB for vector (embeddings) storage and retrieval and found it really nice to use. I'm working …

> 5/1000 colonoscopy patients have complications (some fatal) which is way higher than the base rate for colon cancer. Can you provide a source for this?

At least for Twitter, I think this still happens if you move everyone into a list and only view the list.

Expectations are overwhelmingly for 75bps. Prior to yesterday, 50bps was expected. - https://www.cmegroup.com/trading/interest-rates/countdown-to...

Imatinib (Gleevac) revolutionized treatment for patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). Prior to the drug’s discovery, CML patients generally had seven years to live (possibl…

Recently wrote some code to scrape a friend's reviews and ratings from Goodreads. Maybe it'll be useful to folks here: https://gregreda.com/2020/11/17/scraping-pages-behind-login-.…

Here's an excerpt from their October 2019 letter to shareholders. TL;DR - they're a public company and the markets told them they needed to keep growing in order to survive. > For …

This was GrubHub's original model. Restaurant's don't want to pay a flat fee when they don't see enough orders they feel is necessary to justify said fee. [1] https://youtu.be/a2oT…

Having recently road tripped across the country for a move to SF, I found myself admiring the design of national park signage. It feels very timeless and iconic. https://i.pinimg.c…

Does this change when the two options are perfect substitutes? As a rider, there's no "cost" to having both apps, so I'll just check both. Similarly, as a driver, I'll just sit wit…

> I guess I don't really have a reason to post any of this, other than it helps to get it out there I know that feeling well. Best of luck to you.

I agree. Hadley Wickham (a very prolific author of important R libraries) wrote a great paper about this method using one of his libraries. I'm a Python + pandas user, but his pape…

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Clickbait post title leaves off that this is an estimate from a research firm. Title makes it seem like a sure thing.

In case you're looking for more, this tutorial series hit the front page of HN a few years ago: http://www.gregreda.com/2013/10/26/intro-to-pandas-data-stru... Modern pandas is a b…

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