Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

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Post by paddy_m » Mon, Sep 30, 2024, 3:53 AM UTC

__mharrison__ wrote: post #248

Training folks from around the world to use pandas for data analysis and ML. Training folks on who to apply ML to their data. A course on using modern Python constructs and tooling. (uv, coding with AI, pytest, type annotations, etc). A book on interviewing for Python coding jobs. Planning next book on either catboost or duckdb. Ideas that I'm thinking about: how AI helps established programmers and new programmers.

You're being a bit shy, I'll help :)

Matt Harrison wrote Effective Pandas, the guide to writing elegant pandas code and avoiding many common pitfalls. Keep up the good work

https://www.amazon.com/Effective-Pandas-Patterns-Manipulatio...

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

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Post by herunan » Mon, Sep 30, 2024, 3:58 AM UTC

piazz wrote: post #444

I’m working on an Anki Addon that streamlines the hell out of the card generation process using LLMs. You can define a schema of prompts for your note type & fields, where each prompt can reference other fields, and use it to generate things like translations, example sentences, mnemonics, for tens of thousands of cards in batches or in the fly as they’re reviewed. These generated fields can reference other generated…

I was wondering why this wasn’t a thing yet. And here it is!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

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Post by BadGeekChris » Mon, Sep 30, 2024, 3:59 AM UTC

I am currently working on interpretation of LLM. How to we construct the structure of LLM. I am also interested in the local deployment of LLM, offline version of ChatGPT. How to we use RAG to improve not only the accuracy but also the richness expression of LLM.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

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Post by BadGeekChris13 » Mon, Sep 30, 2024, 3:59 AM UTC

I am currently working on interpretation of LLM. How to we construct the structure of LLM. I am also interested in the local deployment of LLM, offline version of ChatGPT. How to we use RAG to improve not only the accuracy but also the richness expression of LLM.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

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Post by Daniel_Van_Zant » Mon, Sep 30, 2024, 3:59 AM UTC

transformi wrote: post #65

Daniel_Van_Zant wrote: post #23

Gnosi: https://www.gnosi.ai/ . Y You can auto-generate a constantly updated encyclopedia from a set of documents and conversations with an AI about those documents. Trying to make the process of having a Zettlkasten or personal notetaking system frictionless.

Looks promising. Do you have any success stories from using this took?

Yeah! I am a computational neuroscientist and I was trying to understand this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.01678 so I had added the paper to my personal Gnosi and was asking questions about it. I had added this paper https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34512508/ to my Gnosi a few months prior after reading through it and completely forgotten about it. As I was asking questions Gnosi started making connections to this earlier paper and helping me understand the new paper in the context of this older paper I had already read and understood, as well as giving me some ideas on using thermodynamic neural networks as a toy model for how Parkinson's can be created by poor management of entropy.

Understanding something new more easily and making new connections and coming up with new ideas is exactly why I have worked hard on maintaining a zettlkasten for the past 6 years, but Gnosi allowed me to make the same kinds of connections much more frictionlessly.

We have similar success stories from our alpha users which include folks interested in anthropology, complex systems, UAP studies, physics, philosophy understanding new tech for startups, etc.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

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Post by DigiEggz » Mon, Sep 30, 2024, 4:00 AM UTC

Working on a few major changes for my turn-based MMORPG. It uses HaxeFlixel for the client and SmartFoxServer for the backend. I've had fun working on it for about four years now.

Relevant links: https://jamcloud95.com https://github.com/DigiEggz/smartfox-haxe-client

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

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Post by vednig » Mon, Sep 30, 2024, 4:01 AM UTC

End to End Encrypted Personal Cloud - cloud.doshare.me

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

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Post by chown » Mon, Sep 30, 2024, 4:02 AM UTC

I am working on making using LLMs easy for everyone. Focus is to make users productive rather than having them configuring their environment to death. Wrote this app for my wife who, even as a smart software engineer, was getting overwhelmed with AI and LLMs.

https://Msty.app

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

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Post by Daniel_Van_Zant » Mon, Sep 30, 2024, 4:02 AM UTC

zeta0134 wrote: post #119

Good timing, as I just put the finishing touches on this month's devlog: https://www.patreon.com/posts/september-2024-113011369?utm_m... Basically, my rhythm-based roguelike on original NES now has a proper economy, with gold gain and shops to spend the gold in. It also now supports PAL and Dendy systems, which is especially wonky due to the different framerate, but helped a bit by this being a rhythm game. As long a…

What made you decide to build for the NES specifically at opposed to building for a fantasy console with similar restrictions but more usability like the Pico-8?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

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Post by abraxas » Mon, Sep 30, 2024, 4:02 AM UTC

dandigangi wrote: post #270

Taking a break from learning Go/Rust to learn Polish. Lol

Well, that's... uncommon. What made you take the leap? Met the love of your life who is from Poland. As a Pole I'm both honored and impressed but would like to understand your motivation. People who don't move to Poland rarely want to study the language.