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melvinroest

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About melvinroest

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Product engineer and marketing (data) analyst.

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    Anyone want to organize one in Amsterdam with me? I live near the area, would be fun :)

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    Ask HN: Are there good security benchmarks for LLMs?

    I'm looking for this myself but figured it's good to have an actual discussion about this. I'm pretty new to the benchmarking side of LLMs. For example, I looked at eyeballvull [1]…

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    I am curious to check them out! I hadn’t heard of them. Marketing stuff takes time as I have noticed with aliceindataland.com [1]. Maybe I should do a show HN. I will think about i…

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    Comment #48457049

    I talk/walk for hours and want all audio files and transcripts in one place, full control.

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    Comment #48450959

    A voice memo app, quite like the actual voice memo app from Apple. The thing is: now I can put my voice memo's on iCloud put Claude Code on it and make my transcripts into structur…

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    Comment #48422197

    I thought Karpathy’s microgpt explain how LLMs work

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    Comment #48021017

    Yea, the amount of dev tools I'm creating per project is astounding. Usually tools that help me to debug certain things better.

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    Comment #48020991

    > What should we do when code is cheap? Make usable software. Cheap code means that you can create a lot more prototypes to then perform usability tests by finding a user and sitti…

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    Comment #48018025

    Ah, I feel what you're saying. Yea that makes total sense.

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    Comment #48017716

    How so? Could you give some specific examples?

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    Edit: yep, I really do type this much. I'm a bit of a "thinking out loud" person. > Cognitive Debt, Like Technical Debt, Must Be Repaid In quite a few circumstances, cognitive debt…

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    Comment #47759688

    library.aliceindataland.com I'm having fun writing a sequel on the books that Lewis Carroll wrote and mixing it with a SQL course. My hope is that SQL will be more fun to learn tha…

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    Comment #47584424

    TL;DR: you don't need to do any treasure hunt on your notes by just typing stuff into the search bar. Having your own graphRAG system + LLM on your notes is basically a "Google" bu…

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    Comment #47583014

    I have journaled digitally for the last 5 years with this expectation. Recently I built a graphRAG app with Qwen 3.5 4b for small tasks like classifying what type of question I am …

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    Comment #47419559

    If you want some context about spec-driven development and how it could be used with LLMs I recommend [1]. Having some background like helps me to understand tools like this a bit …

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    Comment #47397827

    It has been for a while I suspect.

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    Comment #47202405

    In my agent file I explain that I have a static analyzer which generates a callgraph. On starting the agent runs ~/.agent/tools/__callgraph__/generate_callgraph.py It then gets to …

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    Comment #47199458

    I've been doing something less formal. I stumbled upon Riaan Zoetmulder's free course on deep learning and medical image analysis [1] and found his article on spec-driven developme…

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    I haven’t tried n8n and similar tools but I always had the suspicion that they wouldn’t be that good. Would you say there are scenarios where tools like n8n would be better to use …

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    Comment #46941979

    A free interactive SQL tutorial that will get to the level of being a data analyst. It's Alice in Wonderland themed. I used to be a coding bootcamp instructor, TA and guest lecture…

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