cloudkj
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Comment · 4 months ago
Heh, I just wrote something very similar - bash, curl, and jq scripts that wrap local Ollama calls to produce a REPL/agent: https://github.com/cloudkj/llayer
Seems like the core idea is the same, but I took it farther down the Unix philosophy line of thinking and tried to make the individual components small and composable.
Feel free to check it out and compare!
Comment · 4 months ago
This is great, I was just hoping to find a tool like this and specifically scoped to "Show HN" posts? Is there a way to do that?
Comment · 6 months ago
Some of my recent projects in case anyone finds them useful and/or interesting:
Automatic differentiation library in Clojure (https://github.com/cloudkj/lambda-autodiff) - inspired by Karpathy's `micrograd` from a few years ago; dusted it off recently, fixed a few issues, and was able to use it to implement a version of `microgpt` - https://cloudkj.github.io/lambda-autodiff/doc/examples/gpt/
PG&E "Share My Data" self-access library (https://github.com/cloudkj/pgesmd_self_access) - been tinkering with various home automation and monitoring ideas, and was able to get an end-to-end prototype for ingesting and visualizing PG&E meter data using a combination of the (forked) aforementioned library, an old circa 2015 Raspberry Pi, and a handful of dollars spent on AWS services (certificate manager, load balancer) to get the full mTLS PG&E integration working. Probably deserves a blog post to document all the gory details.
Geo data mashups (https://github.com/cloudkj/snowpack) - small frontend utilities to overlay custom data on top of each other; was able to satisfy two recent personal use cases: (1) visualize snow depth across California ski destinations and (2) heat map of national park traffic by entrance. Previously posted at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46649103
REST interface for Gymnasium reinforcement learning (fka OpenAI Gym) (https://github.com/cloudkj/gymnasium-http-api) - simple wrapper around the forked version of OpenAI Gym to allow for language-agnostic development of RL algorithms.
Comment · 4 years ago
Just curious - how long have you been running the site and how sustainable of a model you feel it is? Sustainable in the sense that the affiliate or ad revenue it brings in is consistent enough to justify continued maintenance, improvement, etc.
I'm also interested in starting up something similar for a particular niche, and would like to hear first hand accounts of the return on investment for aggregators such as these.
Comment · 6 years ago
+1 my thoughts as well. He's been a stellar QA, stress testing various facets of government, politics, and media.
Comment · 6 years ago
I worked on a project with similar motivations; in my case, I had a list of criteria in mind, one of which was the number of syllables in a name. I couldn't find a good source for name syllabification, so built an n-gram language model trained on the CMUdict corpus.
Comment · 6 years ago
Just saw some of the references to RTL-SDR in the thread comments and started down the rabbit hole, and it looks like a fascinating area for hobbyists.
Can you provide some links to temperature sensors you've tried that work well with an RTL-SDR receiver? I'm also interested in setting something up with a Raspberry Pi.
Comment · 6 years ago
I'm at https://www.kelvinjiang.com/
Mostly a small collection of posts about programming and personal finance. Also been running for around fifteen years.
Most popular post is about currency arbitrage, which seems to have had a small resurgence in interest as of late from various crypto folks: https://www.kelvinjiang.com/2010/10/currency-arbitrage-in-99...
Side note: not sure if it's just a funny coincidence, but it seems like a good number of folks here have been running their sites for around fifteen years. Perhaps the timing just happens to match the typical career arc of software professionals, or maybe it was due to the popularity of blogging fifteen years ago.