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geekodour commented on Web3 Onboarding Was a Flop – and Thank Goodness   tomhadley.link/blog/web3-... · Posted by u/solumos
geekodour · 2 months ago
Absolutely not a crypto person but I've been following this team called noice.so, so far I think they've been doing the right thing in the space, pretty new and think they are operating at the right level of abstraction.
geekodour commented on A proposal to restrict sites from accessing a users’ local network   github.com/explainers-by-... · Posted by u/doener
geekodour · 3 months ago
Just wanted to confirm something, this only works for HTTP right? browser dont allow arbitrary TCP reqs right?
geekodour commented on Beyond Quacking: Deep Integration of Language Models and RAG into DuckDB   arxiv.org/abs/2504.01157... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
geekodour · 5 months ago
This paper, and solutions such as sqlcoder, and https://doris.apache.org/zh-CN/blog/Tencent-LLM etc. Which let you query DB via natural language etc.

But recently there has been a surge around MCPs being able to query databases provided the n-number of MCP servers popping up. An example: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPTCoding/comments/1jd9lfa/lear...

So I was wondering of things like the Doris blogpost, this paper and sqlcoder are still relevant/what extra does this approach offer vs trying to build a over mcp?

geekodour commented on Learn electricity and electronics fundamentals without taking a formal course   simonmonk.org/tyee7... · Posted by u/teleforce
njstraub608 · 5 months ago
Honestly just spend a few hours talking to Claude about them, I had a few breakthrough moments doing that.
geekodour · 5 months ago
put this prompt and share the response:

You summarize the past convestion in this thread. - Start with a overall summary in a single paragraph - Then show a bullet pointed list of the most interesting illustrative quotes from the piece - Then a bullet point list of the most unusual ideas - provide a longer summary that covers points not included already - Finally, Step by step/phase by phase understanding of the ideas discussed above

geekodour commented on Autodesk deletes old forum posts suddenly   forums.autodesk.com/t5/ne... · Posted by u/nsoonhui
geekodour · 8 months ago
algolia has done the same for their discourse forum, moved everything to discord and removed all old posts.

Upon asking this was a response from the team: "The Discourse content is no longer available. Much of it was 5+ years old and no longer reflected current SDKs and APIs. We're glad to help you here."

https://ibb.co/3htkxjvhttps://discord.com/channels/1171089640443367494/12783186879...

people were unhappy obviously. I really don't understand this decision by them.

geekodour commented on A Replacement for BERT   huggingface.co/blog/moder... · Posted by u/cubie
jph00 · 8 months ago
Hi gang, Jeremy from Answer.AI here. Nice to see this on HN! :) We're very excited about this model release -- it feels like it could be the basis of all kinds of interesting new startups and projects.

In fact, the stuff mentioned in the blog post is only the tip of the iceberg. There's a lot of opportunities to fine tune the model in all kinds ways, which I expect will go far beyond what we've managed to achieve in our limited exploration so far.

Anyhoo, if anyone has any questions, feel free to ask!

geekodour · 8 months ago
Hi Jeremy, I am trying to navigate the space and trying to understand what fits where.

Could you shed some lights on what parts of bge-m3 would modernbert overlap with or would this is comparing apples to oranges?

https://huggingface.co/BAAI/bge-m3

geekodour commented on Best practices for financial modeling for a startup    · Posted by u/Akshaya_Sriram
geekodour · 10 months ago
i don't know but i think the answer should some combination of google sheets/excel. any guides around that would be helpful. I think i would just want to use gsheet at this stage.
geekodour commented on Ask HN: What do you use to backup your VMs?    · Posted by u/bykof
TheDong · a year ago
For me, it's case-by-case. I don't back up the VMs directly, just the data of the stateful applications running on the VMs (or bare metal servers, I do identical stuff for them).

For postgres, I used to just have a systemd timer that would `pg_dumpall` and throw it in s3.

Now I use https://github.com/wal-g/wal-g to backup my postgresql databases.

For other local files, I use borg backup for personal files and services I just run for myself, and I use restic to backup server files to s3.

The operating system's configuration is all stored in git via the magic of NixOS, so I don't have to worry about files in /etc, they all are 100% reproducible from my NixOS configuration.

geekodour · a year ago
shameless plug

wrote a elaborate doc on using wal-g on nixos, might be useful if someone finds themselves in same boat. has some catches.

https://github.com/geekodour/nix-postgres-docker

geekodour commented on Ask HN: How to Improve Memory?    · Posted by u/fragmenter
geekodour · a year ago
this is the bellcurve meme, only think has worked for me is note taking and making it easy for me to recall when i forget. I've accepted that I've bad memory and I just try to work around it, but i agree with the other comment in this thread about practice, once you practice enough it becomes sort of can switch to that way of thinking and usually that puts you in sort of the right path to recall the right thing. all this is just personal experience.

https://geekodour.org/docs/documents/notetaking/

edit: i still haven't figured out how as a kid i could remember whole chapter literally word-by-word but now I can't even properly remember a phone number. hah.

geekodour commented on GPU Puzzles   github.com/srush/GPU-Puzz... · Posted by u/cgadski
fifilura · a year ago
I think this course is also relevant for some deeper context.

https://gfxcourses.stanford.edu/cs149/fall23/lecture/datapar...

geekodour · a year ago
all videos should be available on YT by end of month

u/geekodour

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