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Comment · 3 months ago
Cheaper to write definitely, no so much cheaper to read. AI generated docs tend to be so annoyingly verbose if not reined in during prompting.

But well, any documentation is good when a human would've written zero docs

Comment · 4 months ago
It does, but it's very poorly documented and quite unstable (on purpose i think). What the other commenter said about the VSCode BYOK seems to be the more reliable way.

I tried adding a Foundry LLM as Github Copilot custom model and failed miserably. But with VSCode BYOK (and Github Copilot as the interfact) i did get it working, and i can now use Deepseek V4 Flash with Copilot.

Comment · 4 months ago
Yeah exactly.

I'm not exactly building TUI's every day, but even i felt pain when i read that "small game engine" post

Comment · 9 months ago
Very interesting! Gonna look through this for sure in the next weeks
Comment · 11 months ago
Nice looking library! Might try it for one of my own projects.
Comment · 1 year ago
You should definitely try mealie yes. On top of a good way to host your own recipes, the entire thing just feels...really well put together?

I'm not even using the features beyond the recipes yet, but i'm already very happy that i can migrate my recipes from google docs to over there

Comment · 1 year ago
I don't think youre missing out necessarily. I would riot if i couldn't use Pycharm anymore, for big python projects just nothing beats it right now.

I do use VSCode too, but mostly for quick scripting or non-programming projects. and even then i installed a bunch of extensions to make it more like Pycharm.

Comment · 1 year ago
The manual approval of commands in GHCP can be circumvented, there's an experimental setting that allows you to accept all commands automatically.

I wish you could be a bit more specific though, you can't set which commands you want to auto-accept in detail.

Comment · 1 year ago
Not sure, i can't run it since i can't install Node.js on my work environment. What is your experience with Context7 like?

As for GitMCP: I think the url fetching tool of the docs it does is not great, but the code searching tool is quite good. Regardless, i remain open to alternatives, not stuck to this yet.

Comment · 1 year ago
I've been using GitMCP.io + Github Copilot for this problem specifically (AI assistant + accurate docs). The downside is that you need to add a separate MCP server for each repository, but the qualitative difference in agent mode is incomparable.

I used it recently to do a major refactor and upgrade to MLFlow version 3.0. Their documentation is a horrid mess right now, but the MCP server made it a breeze because i could just query the assistant to browse their codebase. Would have taken me hours extra myself.

Comment · 1 year ago
When you do have that work context MS copilot performs quite well. But outside of that usecase it's easy to see their model is pretty bad.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Short answer: i use multiple metrics, never rely on just 1 metric.

Long answer: Is the metric for people with subject-matter knowledge? Then (Weighted)RMSSE, or the MASE alternative for a median forecast. WRMSSE is is very nice, it can deal with zeroes, is scale-invariant and symmetrical in penalizing under/over-forecasting.

The above metrics are completely uninterpretable to people outside of the forecasting sphere though. For those cases i tend to just stick with raw errors; if a percentage metric is really necessary then a Weighted MAPE/RMSE, the weighing is still graspable for most, and it doesn't explode with zeroes.

I've also been exploring FVA (Forecast Value Added), compared against a second decent forecast. FVA is very intuitive, if your base-measures are reliable at least. Aside from that i always look at forecast plots. It's tedious but they often tell you a lot that gets lost in the numbers.

RMSLE i havent used much. From what i read it looks interesting, though more for very specific scenarios (many outliers, high variance, nonlinear data?)

Comment · 1 year ago
Look i'm optimistic about time-series foundation models too, but this post is hard to take seriously when the test is so flawed:

- Forward filling missing short periods of missing values. Why keep this in when you explictly mention this is not normal? Either remove it all or don't impute anything

- Claiming superiority over classic models and then not mentioning any in the results table

- Or let's not forget, the cardinal sin of using MAPE as an evaluation metric

Comment · 1 year ago
Good list. Some of these i knew already, but the typing overloading and keyword/positional-only arguments were new to me.

One personal favorite of mine is __all__ for use in __init__.py files. It specifies which items are imported whenever uses from x import *. Especially useful when you have other people working on your codebase with the tendency to always import everything, which is rarely a good idea.

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