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earcar··on Show HN: RubyLLM 1.0 – A Beautiful Ruby Way to Work with AI
Thank you!
earcar··on Show HN: RubyLLM 1.0 – A Beautiful Ruby Way to Work with AI
Thank you!
earcar··on Show HN: RubyLLM 1.0 – A Beautiful Ruby Way to Work with AI
Thank you!
earcar··on Show HN: RubyLLM 1.0 – A Beautiful Ruby Way to Work with AI
Thank you!
earcar··on Show HN: RubyLLM 1.0 – A Beautiful Ruby Way to Work with AI
Thank you!
earcar··on Show HN: RubyLLM 1.0 – A Beautiful Ruby Way to Work with AI
Thank you!
earcar··on Show HN: RubyLLM 1.0 – A Beautiful Ruby Way to Work with AI
Thank you! Not yet, but we have an issue about it https://github.com/crmne/ruby_llm/issues/2
earcar··on Ask HN: Solving workplace knowledge fragmentation with AI
Thanks for the thoughtful reply!

You're right, there are other solutions out there. Glean's the pricey one aimed at big companies, but from what I've seen, the others are either still in development or not quite hitting the mark. My research shows this is a problem for smaller outfits too, and I think there's room for a solution that really works.

On your points:

1. Latest view on a topic: Yep, this is a big issue. I'm looking into ways to integrate metadata to help with this.

2. Knowledge in people's heads: Good point. Actually, I'm hoping my tool could encourage more knowledge sharing. The idea is that if it's not written down, the AI can't retrieve it, which might motivate people to document more. Still brainstorming on how to make this process smooth and not feel like extra work.

3. Information silos: Definitely a thing. My approach is to mirror existing access restrictions - the tool can only access what the user can. But I'm thinking about how it could still help improve cross-team communication within these limits.

Your idea about niching down is interesting. I'm casting a wide net right now, but focusing on specific roles could help tackle unique challenges more effectively.

I'm curious - what's your experience with knowledge management systems? What's worked well for you, and where do you see the biggest gaps?

Really appreciate your insights. This kind of feedback is gold at this stage.

earcar··on Ask HN: Solving workplace knowledge fragmentation with AI
Here's the link to the survey: https://tally.so/r/wzqDq8
earcar··on I built an open-source Cluster Headache Tracker from my hospital bed
As a cluster headache sufferer and developer, I found existing tracking tools inadequate. So I built a new one, coding between attacks while hospitalized. Here's what I learned about innovation, open source, and turning adversity into opportunity: https://paolino.me/cluster-headache-tracker/
earcar··on Installing TensorFlow 1.4.0 on MacOS with CUDA Support
Author of the post here.

Bazel recognizes it's compiling on macOS, so it's using clang-compatible flags, which are incompatible with gcc. You should use the default host compiler, as stated in the [configure output][1] in the post. /usr/bin/gcc is for all intents and purposes clang on macOS.

gcc-7 is only installed to provide libgomp which is otherwise missing from a standard macOS installation.

I'll update the post to make it clearer. Thanks for pointing that out!

[1]: https://gist.github.com/crmne/a22858264d68dd9fe935fc4ee48e04...

earcar··on Ask HN: Who's hiring in Europe?
Let's keep the thread generic. But personally, relocation is not a problem.
earcar··on BSD For Linux Users: Intro
See another discussion on the subject on a previously posted FreeBSD Quickstart Guide for Linux: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1759761

This story was also posted in the comments.

earcar··on Lichess - Don't register. Play Chess.
GitHub repository: https://github.com/ornicar/lichess
earcar··on Chrome 7 Will Get 60 Times Faster
Since this is a rendering improvement, I hope this will be merged back or developed directly into the original WebKit, so everyone can benefit.
earcar··on DOS on Dope: The last MVC web framework you'll ever need
Whenever I've opened up a DoD website to several users, my hard drive tends to get wiped long before I discover performance issues.
earcar··on RVM (Ruby Version Manager) 1.0.0
RVM 1.0.0, Ruby 1.9.2 and Rails 3.

+ Rubinius will remove the GIL ("the work has already begun" -- Yehuda Katz http://yehudakatz.com/2010/08/14/threads-in-ruby-enough-alre...)

+ MacRuby will be even faster, more stable and more documented

It will be an awesome end of 2010/2011 for Ruby programmers.

earcar··on Ruby 1.9.2 Released
`--head` is not necessary since it's included in the latest release (0.1.46)
earcar··on Ruby 1.9.2 Released
It's already on rvm, http://rvm.beginrescueend.com
earcar··on Google vs iPhone and Facebook
Exactly. The touch paradigm is completely different than the mouse and keyboard one, phone usage patterns are completely different than that of a Mac, the distance from the screen is different, proportions are all different... Imagine looking at a Mac application, that has to be displayed in ultra high resolution in a small phone, in direct sun or while running and trying to click that 3x3 millimeters button to close the window.

An application's phone interface has to be different than the desktop one, and since there is no programmatic way to adapt the desktop interface to the phone, it has to be rethought and then reimplemented.

earcar··on Visualization of cheating in education
Recomputing (formulas) is actually a pretty useful skill to have in almost all science classes, so you can store the least possible amount of formulas in your head and still do very good at exams, unless they have very short time limits. And it's way more fun than cheating.
earcar··on Stackoverflow, HTML by Regex, topmost answer
Got to read that in a Cylon Hybrid or GLaDOS voice.
earcar··on Meditation: Why Bother?
He has written many books on the subject. I think I'll read the linked one and get the "sequel" soon. http://www.amazon.com/Bhante-Henepola-Gunaratana/e/B002LADY6...
earcar··on Apple letter about iPhone 4
Hilarious "Translation From Apple’s Unique Dialect of PR-Speak to English" by John Gruber: http://daringfireball.net/2010/07/translation_iphone_4
earcar··on What the Hex? Guess the color.
I agree, but I think that most problems have to be from the real world to keep non-geek kids interested. This method is actually being experimented by a math teacher named Dan Meyer. Here it's his TED talk http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_meyer_math_curriculum_makeover....
earcar··on There Are No Famous Programmers
I think we are getting to (what I think is) the point: You will be recognized only if your work excites your users so much.
earcar··on PR: Apple releases Safari 5 (Since It Has Been Wiped From PRNewswire)
Official press release from Apple https://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/06/07safari.html
earcar··on [dead]
This press release seems believable, so I think it's a kind of PR failure and it will be out soon. But I'll stick with https://www.apple.com/pr/ for the official word.
earcar··on Steve Jobs live from WWDC 2010
It's actually based on already existing open standards, see http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/06/apple-...
earcar··on Smokescreen - a Flash player written in Javascript and HTML5
I don't think that people who use ad-blockers will hurt profit so much, because people like that are probably geeks and they generally don't pay attention to ads unless they are really interested in their content. So if your audience is geeky, you might want to find another revenue model.
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