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AI researcher/engineer. https://github.com/ricklamers
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ricklamers··on Who invented deep residual learning?
Perhaps then inventors of promising ideas should make multiple attempts at popularizing their ideas if they care about association, multiple attempts at explaining why the idea is important and demonstrations of killer applications.
ricklamers··on Weather Radar APIs in 2025: A Founder's Complete Market Overview
I have found 'Buienalarm' to be more accurate in the Netherlands, not scientifically, just anecdotally
ricklamers··on I've spent $25k on X ads as an indie dev
I want more blog posts like this: filled to the brim with useful advice. Ty pul!
ricklamers··on Why we no longer use LangChain for building our AI agents
FWIW I think LangChain has evolved a lot and is a nice time saver once you figure out the patterns it uses. The LangSmith observability is frankly fantastic to quickly get a sense of how your expected LLM flow engineering ends up working out in practice. So much FUD here, unwarranted IMO. Don’t forget, reading code is harder than writing it, doesn’t warrant throwing out the baby with the bath water. Don’t fall for NIH :) Haven’t had issues running in prod recently either since they’ve matured their packaging with core/community/partner etc. For agentic use cases look at LangGraph for a cleaner set of primitives that give you the amount of control needed there.
ricklamers··on Questioning "The Value of Open Source Software"
It makes no sense to estimate the total cost of the proprietary equivalent of _all_ that is currently OSS at $177M. It would be spread over at minimum thousands of companies and each company would try to get their margin, needs to be rewarded for the risk they’re taking, etc.

The HBS method to get to 3.5X isn’t sensible (as the author points out, not everyone would build) but the truth is somewhere in-between.

The COGS of software would be significantly higher if there was no OSS. But everyone knows that already. I don’t think any new information has been created here.

ricklamers··on Show HN: BuildAnything – stream LLM HTML to an iframe
I really enjoy tinkering with LLM outputs that generate code that can be executed directly. Especially the faster models like GPT-3.5 Turbo are a joy to play with.
ricklamers··on Fastest autograd in the West
Am I the only one surprised that the author of einops is looking for work? In an era of an AI arms race between many big labs? If you’re rolling your own networks, I’d definitely reach out to this guy!
ricklamers··on Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes
TIL. Cross-posting breaks silos
ricklamers··on Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes
https://github.com/PipedreamHQ/pipedream/issues/954

No I don’t think so. You probably want n8n if you’re keen on self-hosting.

ricklamers··on Ask HN: AI/ML papers to catch up with current state of AI?
If you want good up to date resources on the applied side I’d recommend checking out https://hamel.dev/notes/
ricklamers··on Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes
I have to plug one of my favorite workflow automation tools that is a namesake and was fairly recently developed: https://pipedream.com/

Would definitely give it a try if you’re looking to automate Yahoo Pipes style.

I have no affiliation to them, just a happy user

ricklamers··on Open-interpreter: OpenAI's Code Interpreter in your terminal, running locally
Thanks! Appreciate it
ricklamers··on Open-interpreter: OpenAI's Code Interpreter in your terminal, running locally
I wrote a similar thing for myself: https://github.com/ricklamers/shell-ai

It currently has 882 stars and I think a few people at least are enjoying using it.

ricklamers··on Collecting and curating material is good and we should do it more
https://codingwithintelligence.com/feed.xml

It has an RSS feed with full articles available. I understand your desire to limit JS.

ricklamers··on Collecting and curating material is good and we should do it more
Great analysis on the value of collecting and curating knowledge, even without synthesizing it into "best practices." As an AI engineer I collect a lot of resources here, hoping it helps someone https://codingwithintelligence.com/
ricklamers··on Mojo: The usability of Python with the performance of C
It doesn’t even support keyword arguments yet, hard to take the Python interop seriously
ricklamers··on Hush – Noiseless Browsing for Safari
I found https://github.com/oblador/hush#does-hush-accept-or-deny-per...

So neither it seems. Whatever the website does when a user doesn’t make a choice.

ricklamers··on Show HN: Code Indexer Loop
Queries on https://github.com/pypa/flit/tree/main/flit_core/flit_core (omitted tests/)

https://pastebin.com/qyzWm6YC

https://pastebin.com/DDnDKGxd

ricklamers··on Show HN: Code Indexer Loop
Please let me know if anything isn’t as expected and I’ll try to look into it
ricklamers··on Show HN: Code Indexer Loop
Sweep is mentioned as attribution in multiple places a) https://github.com/definitive-io/code-indexer-loop#attributi... b) https://github.com/definitive-io/code-indexer-loop/blob/fd9d...

The difference is packaging it as a consumable PyPI package that can easily be used in a project (they even call out for separating this out into a stand alone project but that they lack the time to do so: https://docs.sweep.dev/blogs/chunking-2m-files#future- )

In addition, we expand and fix the implementation, for example it now supports limiting on token count instead of character count, and we fix some white space inconsistencies in parsing/chunk reconstruction.

ricklamers··on Show HN: Kubectl Notebook
If you can make sure all the resources are namespaced well I’d actually start moving some local workloads to our GKE cluster. Very nice work!
ricklamers··on Web Scraping via JavaScript Runtime Heap Snapshots (2022)
Using introspection tools like queryObjects in Chrome Dev Tools should get you quite far:

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/console/utilities...

ricklamers··on Smarter, more efficient coding: GitHub Copilot goes beyond Codex with improved
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1E4GF9Y21twcjlZ7Aha7zRJ2aSTb...
ricklamers··on Show HN: Chie – a cross-platform, native, and extensible desktop client for LLMs
The UI toolkit it uses is Yue which I hadn’t heard of: https://libyue.com/docs/latest/js/
ricklamers··on Generative TV demo of full South Park episode - SHOW-1
Jeremy Howard calling it out as a fake https://twitter.com/jeremyphoward/status/1681817279133253632...
ricklamers··on Ask HN: What tech newsletters are you currently subscribing to?
https://bensbites.beehiiv.com/

https://www.latent.space/

https://tldr.tech/

https://www.pythonweekly.com/

https://codingwithintelligence.com/ (my own ^^)

ricklamers··on You only compete with one thing
Yeah tell this to the guys at MosaicML. Spend less than you earn is a fine strategy but it definitely isn’t the only road to Rome.
ricklamers··on Unicorn social app IRL to shut down after admitting 95% of its users were fake
> It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

I’ll just leave this here.

ricklamers··on Show HN: Launching Struct – Knowledge-Rich, AI-Powered Chat Platform
The unlock opportunity here is likely being underestimated. I heard once "you can be ahead of so many curves by being on Twitter", now add Discord and Slack.

Also, you can remove the tediousness of Twitter feed scrolling because AI will make it easy to just ask for specific knowledge (if you know what you're looking for) or perform discovery based searching (what are some of the interesting ways in which people are using LangChain in this community). This is wild!

ricklamers··on Brainformers: Trading Simplicity for Efficiency
I think parsimony is great for human readability but also creates a bias that excludes within reach solutions that overall have meaningfully better properties https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolved_antenna
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