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I think my notetaking undergoes a transformation each year. Last summer I made a remembrance agent plugin in obsidian which has been useful for collecting my notes on technical inf…

Sounds like good support for a few different paradigms. Python has pretty good autogenerated reference docs, but if you want more than markdownified docstrings it makes them as dif…

I love whenever this comes up. It’s a great framework for thinking about and writing docs. It’s hard to keep documentation up to date, however, and I find that items like tutorials…

I just retried a few queries that were failing ~3 days ago and they are returning correct [enough] results on mobile as of today, when I don't need them. I'm not sure of the cause …

Gmail's search on mobile, where things come up in the quick results only to disappear when I complete the search, is a millstone about my neck.

I find this routing problem to be opaque and I’m generally skeptical that the label people are trying to predict is meaningful. If you really need more discrimination of the comple…

How do you handle the more densely written pages in script ? I did a very similar exercise OCRing works from this exact collection, but I stuck with the English books for the first…

I love this approach, very Diamond Age. I uploaded a picture of my cat and learned a lot about coat genetics. I think it fixated on his coloration.

AI applications that would help normal people in a significant way are pretty lacking, so I'm not surprised. So much conversation about AI products is cycles of "this tech will cha…

Here’s an explicit example of the above from today using the above dataset: https://x.com/kaiostephens/status/2040396678176362540?s=46

This is a great idea! I saw a similar (inverse) idea the other day for pooling compute ( https://github.com/michaelneale/mesh-llm ). What are you doing for compute in the backend? …

It is more common now to improve models in agentic systems "in the loop" with reinforcement learning. Anthropic is [very likely] doing this in the backend to systematically improve…

Very cool! This was a good impetus to actually add RSS to my blog.

Especially when people pushing it are trying to capture your attention, it’s good to be deliberate about the tech that you introduce.

Do you have a source for this? Most information I’ve seen around this (e.g. Acquired podcast, from the Costco side) claims strong positive relationships.

Cursor uses a vector index, some details here: https://cursor.com/docs/context/semantic-search

I made an obsidian extension that does semantic and hybrid (RRF with FTS) search with local models. I have done some knowledge graph and ontology experimentation around this, but n…

I had the good fortune of seeing Lawrence of Arabia in 70mm in a theater and then going to watch Prometheus within the same two week span. It gave me a much greater appreciation fo…

The patterns associated with primes are inherent to the numbers themselves and not their representations. The numbers are the pattern.

I like the idea of self-hostability, but not having to think about the deployment of the frontend piece has been a huge accelerant for me, someone who typically thinks only of ML a…

You can also run for a charity by raising sufficient money for a cause that sponsors you.

`outlines` ( https://github.com/dottxt-ai/outlines ) is very good and supported by vLLM as a backend structured output provider ( https://docs.vllm.ai/en/v0.8.2/features/structured…

Executing on meaningful knowledge work also might require many different paths, depending on the context and the environment. To me it's more about the method of inquiry and how yo…

It's weird to read this from zettelkasten.de, given that the method is precisely about cultivating such a graph of knowledge. "Knowing enough to begin" seems to me to be the expres…

> You have to remember EVERYTHING. Only then you can perform the cognitive tasks necessary to perform meaningful knowledge work. You don't have to remember everything. You have to …