Abe Gong

Currently thinking about evals and benchmarks... distributedthoughts.org/the-benchmar...

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Thanks, Copilot, for this utterly stunning suggestion

Nvidia

Before my partner goes camping, she counts the exact number of marshmallows and graham crackers she plans to use for s'mores. I don't hink I could live that way

Claude Code, trying to get that one last unit test to pass

Inside you there are two wolves. One is active, the other one is on hot standby and becomes active if the first one fails or is taken down for maintenance. Add more wolves as necessary for increased redundancy load balancing. A quorum badger can be added for environments with multiple active wolves.

Looking forward to Data Council this week! HMU if you're around and want to catch up.

Incredible data

FastMCP 2.0 is out! New features include: 🔄 Proxying any existing MCP server as a FastMCP server 🧩 Composing multiple servers into one 🪄 Autogenerating MCP servers from OpenAPI or FastAPI 🧠 Client LLM sampling Let's keep growing the MCP ecosystem! 🚀 github.com/jlowin/fastmcp

TIL JsonPath: bump.sh/blog/how-to-...

Who's going to be at DataCouncil this year? #databs

Last year we encountered a strange glitch in one of our surveys…the word “yes” was being replaced with the word “forks” in response options. Read on to learn how we unraveled what was causing it, how we ensured it didn’t impact the data quality, and what to do if it happens to you!

I'm looking forward to digging into MongoDB's new AI showcase repo: github.com/mongodb-deve...

Can't stop giggling at this sample question used to test an AI reasoning model in a paper I'm reading

The pandemic started five years ago, which means it's just about time for Cisco to announce big product enhancements to WebEx to help cope with the social distancing.

Smashing the endorse button as fast as I can www.lesswrong.com/posts/oKAFFv...

TIL vvvv: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vvvv

In the last few days, I'm finding myself fighting memories in Windsurf a lot more often. Cascade will often get hung up on irrelevant/outdated info in memories and ignore/garble specific instructions. It started happening right after I installed the Wave 4 updates. Anybody else seeing this?

personally would not describe the myth of a man cursed to roll a rock uphill FRUITLESSLY FOR ALL ETERNITY as “a reminder that you can overcome anything” but you do you, meta ad

OMG, Windsurf/Claude is amazing at taking the pain out of configuring Github actions.

TIL object-relational impedance mismatch

Ugh. For reasons I cannot fathom, I woke up with Jack Black/Bowser's "Peaches" song stuck in my head. Thanks, Obama.

This datavis and the layout algorithms behind it is a tidy little thing of beauty

Are there any @pydantic.dev power users on bsky? I have a Question: github.com/pydantic/pyd...

Me and the python MRO are not on good terms right now.

Is there a name for pre-refactor "I'm not sure yet how bad it's going to be" anxiety?

Nothing says "this software isn't for me" quite like having to give anything a "campaign name." If I'm forced to give campaign names in a tool I always call it "winter land war in Asia"

This is worth a read

How common is it to code gen Typescript or pydantic types from JSONSchema?

The internet is sometimes oddly specific: www.slidescarnival.com/template/ear...

You call it vibes. I call it subject matter expertise.

Cross-species teamwork ftw

TIL Snowclone: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowclone

This is how you know it's going to be a good book.

I want this, but for SQL #databs #datasky

Loving ghostty so far. Does its job; does it well.

In children per year, the US birth rate is at an all-time low, but in Miles’ per hour it’s at an all time high.

👋 @wesmckinney.com

Every computer program can be shortened by one line. Every computer program has at least one bug. By induction, we see that all programs can be reduced to an empty file which will not perform as required.

Big shoutout to Interstellar for emphatically proving that I don’t automatically love everything Christopher Nolan does.

Powder day at Brighton?

Do any of the AI-enabled IDEs allow you to provide your own LLM (or fine-tune a built-in LLM)?

TIL Cow Tools: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_tools

New randomized, controlled trial by the World Bank of students using GPT-4 as a tutor in Nigeria. Six weeks of after-school AI tutoring = 2 years of typical learning gains, outperforming 80% of other educational interventions. And it helped all students, especially girls who were initially behind.