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joshuabaker2

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About joshuabaker2

Engineer & Co-Founder @ fraction.com.

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    You can convert a PyTorch model to an ONNX model that can use CoreML (or in some cases just convert it to a CoreML model directly)

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    I was surprised it pinged gpt-4o. I was expecting it to use something like https://github.com/apple/ml-fastvlm (obviously cost may have been a factor there), but I can see how the …

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    Comment #43163677

    Hi Boris, love working with Claude! I do have a question—is there a plan to have Claude 3.5 Sonnet (or even 3.7!) made available on ca-central-1 for Amazon Bedrock anytime soon? My…

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    Mortgages in Canada are different than mortgages in the US in that they are full recourse. If the sale price during foreclosure doesn’t cover the costs, the banks can go after you …

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    Comment #39284724

    Yes this is accurate. I work at a lender that operated in both Canada and the US and the credit bureau integrations were with totally different companies and had different APIs (ev…

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    Comment #39284681

    Yes, but it’s partly the government’s fault. There’s literally no way for mortgage lenders to pull your tax records in order to verify income. There used to be some third party ser…

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    Predictability, speed, cheap fuel, a lack of understanding of climate change, etc. We also used to have windmills to grind grain and then switched over to mills that use electricit…

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    Comment #35443388

    I did! He's awesome. I was on the software side of things and he was the mechanical but our paths crossed quite frequently.

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    Comment #35431342

    This looks amazing! Wind power is totally underutilized in the shipping industry, I've been waiting for something like this for ages. I used to be part of a team back in university…

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    The first thing I always do when I go into any new editor is set up the "Select All Instances of highlighted word". So like how there is cmd-d for the next occurrence, I also like …

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    Comment #35086499

    This looks very cool, would love to see something like this take off - boilerplate code is such a hassle to stand up for each new project. Does this work with existing hand-made re…

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    Comment #35049441

    Solid article. Is it fair to say that the "data services" layer is essentially a cache sitting in front of the database, or am I misunderstanding it's function?

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    Comment #30106289

    I met one of my co-founders (we are now a Series A startup) originally via LinkedIn, and together we met our third co-founder also via LinkedIn. The first co-founder and I are in t…

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    Fraction | Frontend, Backend Engineers and Full Stack Developers | Full-Time | Vancouver, BC or Berkeley, CA | Onsite, Hybrid, or 100% Remote (your preference) Looking for a new en…

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    Comment #27702111

    Fraction | Senior Software Engineer | Remote/Onsite | US/Canada | Full-time | https://fraction.is At Fraction, we are building a system to completely modernize home equity lending …

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    Comment #25266751

    Fraction ( https://fractionrealestate.co ) | Full Stack Engineer | Vancouver, Canada (but WFH during COVID) | Full Time Fraction is building a world-class platform for enabling hom…

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    Comment #17158715

    I noticed that too. Maybe it's related to the maintenance NPM is currently doing? https://status.npmjs.org/

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