joeamroo

Joined 5 years ago

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Member since
Nov 14
https://www.montroselabs.ai
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Comment · 3 months ago
I'm glad you like the sarcasm haha.
Comment · 3 months ago
As every person in Academia should.
Comment · 3 months ago
I'm working on three things right now.

ARVnote (https://arvnote.com): Mostly to teach myself the business side of things, as-is and after-repair-value comps for real estate investors. You give it an address, it pulls comparable sales, adjusts them for square footage, garage, lot, and condition, and returns the ARV with a deal analysis. The arithmetic turned out to be the easy part. Almost all of the difficulty is comp selection, and the data sources disagree with each other constantly, so a lot of the work is deciding which one to believe for a given property.

km (https://github.com/joeamroo/knowledgemaxxing): local search over your own data exports, with LLM/RAG. It takes the Twitter archive, Google MyActivity, ChatGPT logs, and Reddit GDPR export you requested once and never opened, dedupes roughly 500k items into a single SQLite file, and keeps provenance for every save, like, bookmark, and page visit. Binds to 127.0.0.1 and makes no external calls. I wanted my own AI-assistant that understands what I like reading based upon my data, and I did not want to hand it to someone else's server just to make it searchable. (open for contributions!)

LarpIn (https://larpin.io): Just for fun. A parody LinkedIn where everyone admits they are indeed larping. No signup, you get a generated persona on arrival, one global feed, and every post is scored on buzzword density from "NPC (for now)" to "Final Boss of LinkedIn." There is a button that fills in the "You need to be X-maxxing" format for you, which is the part I actually keep using. Rails 8, SQLite, Hotwire, one box, no JS build step. Open source (open for contributions!): https://github.com/joeamroo/larpin

btw: the two web apps are Rails, km is Python. Happy to go into detail on any of them.

Comment · 1 year ago
what is wrong with you?
Comment · 1 year ago
It guessed me as a native speaker, I actually moved to the US at 17 so I'm proud of myself i guess :)
Comment · 2 years ago
I think a lot of people besides bankers think hedge funds are good for the economy.
Comment · 2 years ago
Hi HN! These are the second part (out of alot) of my notes on Clang/LLVM. I've written these as I was studying Clang/LLVM as part of my MLH Fellowship, so feedback is appreciated!
Comment · 2 years ago
This going to be a slippery slope as more governments start to use fines as an alternative type of tax unique to these tech companies. I don't know how Meta/Google can react to these fines (Except the whole opt-in part, but then you have a tradeoff with usability, and people against it usually think that Meta cares about their data outside the aggregate)

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