dannyboland
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Comment · 12 days ago
After the last LiteLLM compromise, I took my requirement (an OpenAI compatible endpoint routing across multiple providers based on latency) and built that as a small static Rust binary - https://github.com/sturnus-dev/sturnus
Now that AI makes it cheaper to build such tools in-house, the case for adopting a maximalist framework and trusting that entire supply chain is a lot weaker.
Comment · 1 month ago
The principle behind a lot of good advice here is “creating the conditions for solder to naturally go where you want it to”. Cleaning, tinning, preheating are all part of creating those conditions.
So the moment you find yourself fighting or forcing the solder, it’s better to step back and create the right conditions.
Comment · 2 months ago
Bleak. This flat and fast structure assumes that ICs are all senior devs, able to be largely autonomous. Who supports the junior engineer who is struggling?
There’s a lot of talk about how AI shifted the job market away from junior roles, but companies had already removed the management capacity for them.
Comment · 2 months ago
“Drop” is a loaded verb in a SQL context. “Add” or “paste” might avoid the raised eyebrow.
Comment · 2 months ago
I use Hetzner - reasonable prices, EU based and one of the best benefits of AI is that running a pet server is no longer a real burden.
Comment · 4 months ago
I've been using this loop for a while now and I'm impressed at the variety of what I've learned (from cooking to control loops).
I'd highly recommend it - the Socratic approach of putting me on the spot to guess is a refreshing break from the habit of just looking things up.
Comment · 8 months ago
There looks to be some errors in the conversion from PDF -> web in this report. For example, the web version of Figure 7 has the legend colours reversed.
Comment · 3 years ago
Would publishing code under a limited company be a viable approach to avoid liabilities from OSS?
Of course it shouldn’t be necessary, I’m just trying to think of a practical way for an individual to avoid this scenario.
Comment · 3 years ago
This is a lot of fun!
I took a stab at doing something similar with virtualising an ML model for an arbitrary text classification task: https://mastodon.scot/@danny/109452332918910028
> I want you to act as a machine learning classifier. The training set consists of news topics and the label categories are “politics”, “celebrity” and “finance”. I will type text input and you will reply with what the classifier output would be. I want you to only reply with the output and nothing else. Do no write explanations.
Example training data:
Topic: Barack Obama
Label: politics
Topic: Kim Kardashian
Label: celebrity
Topic: Dow Jones
Label: finance
Topic: Tony Blair
Label:
Comment · 4 years ago
Yeah, I adopted the “src” dir layout after reading this post some time back:
https://blog.ionelmc.ro/2014/05/25/python-packaging/#the-str...
It describes some of the outdated motivations for the other layouts commonly seen with python, as well as the many benefits of the “src” layout.
Comment · 4 years ago
This is almost exactly how I set up python projects; it’s reassuring to see it set out in one place.
I started using tox-poetry-installer[1] to make tox pick up pinned versions from the lock file and reuse the private package index credentials from poetry.