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About vkb
vickiboykis.com @vickiboykis.com on bluesky Veekaybee on GitHub
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Author here. That's definitely my bad and not an intended user experience. The text was initially meant as a transcript accompanying presentation slides. I've compressed the images…
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Comment #37390330
The good news is that this already exists in the Redis search module [1], which allows you to do similarity search against indexed embeddings, among other features, and offers comp…
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Comment #31822533
Author here. The primary difference is that Confluence is more like a reference manual. A P2 is more like a conversation and a record of decisions made, along with all the context …
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Comment #14583723
Added, thanks.
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Comment #14583720
No, they were comments on a Facebook post.
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Comment #14544150
Editor here. Thank you for sharing your memories. And, for the note. Some details about the origin: the vignettes were originally English-language comments in a private Facebook gr…
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Comment #14544062
Editor here. These were originally written in English, so we have plans to translate to Russian, which might take a while since we only have one fully-qualified translator. Help is…
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Ask HN: What are we doing about Facebook, Google, and the closed internet?
There have been many, many posts about how toxic advertising and Facebook are (I've written many myself[1][2][3]) for our internet ecosystem today. What projects or companies are y…
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Comment #14004900
This is a rather interesting stance to take for a publication whose article quality has degraded and ad size has increased (thirty-eight trackers, including two from Facebook, dete…
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Comment #13994871
I don't know that that's necessarily true. The most recent StackOverflow survey[1] shows a difference of 8%, which is not an overwhelming majority. Granted, that's not an unbiased …
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Comment #13989228
Came across this yesterday. Can someone (maybe poster?) talk about when you would use this versus something like scikit-learn or any number of R libraries? Is the goal simply to ha…
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Comment #13895090
Perhaps it's just my selective biases, but I feel like I am reading about more notable people in the tech industry speaking out in favor of privacy over the past couple months than…
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Comment #13816915
Data scientist here. It is 100% possible to do things with kids, but you really have to be motivated to do it, AND it really helps if you have a support system of other people to h…
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