yamalight

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Sep 22
Hi, I'm Tim. I talk about software development, ML, knowledge graphs, javascript and video games.

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/yamalight; my proof: https://keybase.io/yamalight/sigs/zM00Rs7ySpH7n4Ansupqu-6g-lTvytHUj4zFfV_8AsQ ]

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Comment · 8 months ago
I've started self-hosting email in ~2021. It took about 6 months (of mostly waiting) to clean up reputation of IP I've gotten (was in a few spam lists). After that - it was incredibly easy to maintain. It's literally just running mailcow update every now and then and that's it. So, if you are willing to fight for a bit in that initial stretch - no, it's not hard; yes, you can self-host your email.
Comment · 1 year ago
Not usually, no. (edit: and that totally went over my head, lol. good one :) )
Comment · 1 year ago
It told me my ~10 year old js project was 50% AI generated. Yeah, this is more or less the same as "AI text detector" stuff that won't work reliably (but people who don't understand LLMs will still use it to blame others)
Comment · 1 year ago
Those games are usually brilliant - but those are very rare. Like "once in a few years" kind of rare IMO. While that is a valid approach, I play way more than that haha!

What I found interesting with Vaporlens is that it surfaces things that people think about the game - and if you find games where you like all the positives and don't mind largest negatives (because those are very often very subjective) - you're in a for a pretty good time.

It's also quite amusing to me that using fairly basic vector similarity on points text resulted in a pretty decent "similar games" section :D

Comment · 1 year ago
Built vaporlens.app in my free time using LLMs (specifically gemini, first 2.0-flash, recently moved to 2.5-flash).

It processes Steam game reviews and provides one page summary of what people thing about the game. Have been gradually improving it and adding some features from community feedback. Has been good fun.

Comment · 1 year ago
I've started self-hosting mailcow (dockerized) on a Hetzner VM ~6 years ago or so. It took about 6 month to clean the rep of my IP address as it unfortunately been in spam lists previously - but after that, it's been a pretty smooth sailing. And all for a measly ~10 euro/mo including daily backups.
Comment · 2 years ago
Having a research background - for me, doing this in research was always easier. Because you generally have very straightforward ways to validate your hypotheses.

Validating things with customers - in my experience - can be extremely tricky as they might not even know what they want

Comment · 2 years ago
To finally figure out how to effectively design and test MVPs / prototypes without overdoing it. I think this has been a bane of my startup life for pretty much whole ~14 years I've been doing it.
Comment · 3 years ago
I really like Edge's "site access: on click" for extensions. Hoping for FF to add it at some point
Comment · 4 years ago
Happy to clear the misunderstanding :)
Comment · 4 years ago
We're using top level wikidata classes (you can see specific classes in JSON response). Full list is not published yet, but will be available in the near future.
Comment · 4 years ago
So, er, how exactly would I prove it? Do you want me to share our code / db / etc we've worked on for past ~two years? :)

For one - how many wikidata classes exactly do you get from Wikineural? If I remember correctly, it can do four (person, location, organization, other). Our models do several thousands.

It'll likely annotate similar things in text since our model is also transformers-based (which is basically current state of art) - can't really do anything about that.

edit: phrasing.

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