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jahala

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About jahala

I aspire to build things that benefit others.

Trying to become a venture altruist like Manfred Macx (from the book "Accelerando" by Charles Stross

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49020424

    I went from having an experience of life, of reality - that was very self-centered, lonely and nihilistic - to basically a "life worth living". I wish I had met with meditation - t…

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    Comment #48804186

    In most cases, the quality of your attention determines your quality of life. Your ability to focus on education, work, personal relationships etc will often determine the outcomes…

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    Comment #48792698

    Meditation - «getting used to» A most elementary form of meditation, is getting used to placing your attention on a sensation and keeping it anchored there - even when other sensat…

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    Comment #48701419

    Opus 4.8 is my daily driver, and it's miles away from what I got out of Fable 5

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    Comment #48675129

    Really cool! Where would you get the data for something like this? Is it open, or its scraped?

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    Show HN: Vibesolve.ai – Turn plain English into Timefold code

    VibeSolve is an open-source tool that turns a plain-English description of an optimisation problem into Timefold code. Mathematical optimisation is a branch of mathematics and comp…

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    Comment #48622425

    Its on the way! https://github.com/jahala/tilth/pull/151

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    Comment #48598943

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    Comment #48591978

    There is an answer- these tools should benchmark by cost per correct answer - not just tokens saved.

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    Comment #48591960

    Would sincerely love to hear your thoughts on https://www.github.com/jahala/tilth - it’s a different approach than RTK, benchmarked to reduce cost per correct answer by ~40%

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    Comment #48434417

    Thanks for that!

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    Comment #48434303

    Loving the customer testimonials :D .. If someone feels like an eli5 - What are the use-cases for something like this?

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    Comment #48422652

    Yup, this is hitting it on the nose. But, despite the cost - the benchmark is the vital ingredient that cant be skipped. Otherwise, you don't know if what you're building is actual…

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    Comment #48422626

    No I don't have the funds to benchmark the competition, but would be happy to put the numbers up if any token whales feel like having a go. https://github.com/jahala/tilth/tree/mai…

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    Comment #48418310

    This is the reason, when I built a tool in the same space, I chose to benchmark with cost per correct answer. Reducing tokens and also turns is quite worthless if the LLM doesn’t s…

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    Comment #48173726

    This looks great! I built a tool in the same space- and I found that the biggest challenge was often to get the agent to prefer to use the tool over bash tools. What’s your experie…

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    Comment #48160445

    I absolutely LOVE Accelerando. I've recommended it to everyone I meet for years. If you're looking for other great sci-fi reads: John Ringo - Live free or die John Varley - Titan (…

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    Comment #47647396

    I did a proof of concept for self-updating html files (polyglot bash/html) some weeks ago. It actually works quite well, with simple prompting it seems to not just go in circles ( …

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    Comment #47643210

    I built tilth ( https://github.com/jahala/tilth ) much for this reason. Couldn't bother with RAG, but the agents kept using too many tokens - and too many turns - for finding what …

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    Comment #47613423

    I got tired of copy-pasting between agents for simple coordination. Everything I found was a framework or a hosted service. I just needed them to talk. Walkie-Clawkie is a single J…

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    Comment #47325777

    Hey @joknoll - in the benchmarks, I'm seeing very positive results with Haiku, getting quicker and more correct answers. So I think you're absolutely right that harness improvement…