I'm curious whether anyone has run into hallucinations with this kind of use of an LLM.
They are pretty great at converting data between formats, but I always worry there's a small chance it changes the actual data in the output in some small but misleading way.
Guess you didn't see the old version of the screenshots on the page, which showed things like 1.5 pounds of lamb being converted into 1.5 kg, that is, more than doubling it.
I've used OpenSCAD for a few small projects. The main draw for me is avoiding all the "fiddly mouse stuff". I figure it's a trade-off between simple stuff being more complicated, and complicated stuff being easier to bulk edit and organize.
I don't know enough about the underlying proof-of-work stuff to comment on how effective this could be, but I think it's pretty funny that the UI examples say "I'm a human".
I guess "there's only a few of me at most" or "I could allocate enough computation to this that I'm probably not up to no good" don't read as clearly.
Send them an email asking for a quote. For a small business like this, I'd expect they can probably ship it to you but the complexities of quoting shipping internationally means they don't have it on the site. Yes, shipping APIs are readily available, but implementing them costs more than the shoestring budget they likely have for the site and would also require integration with their inventory software. I'd be willing to gamble that they are likely using a homegrown WMS that is a combination of excel sheets and several layers of scripts from former and current employees who can write code but aren't professional developers.
I've consulted for similar size businesses, and shipping integration was always the reason to not support international shipments. Send them an email, you'll almost certainly hear back from a real person and if you let them know what you want to order they can probably make it happen.
I'm probably just not thinking through the problem fully, but:
Wouldn't this be better solved inside the coding assistants? They're the parent process and should be able to tell when a sub command has hung.
This is incredible, love how much further you've taken it than just the proof of concept as well.
This is probably just my opinion, but I kept thinking that a better word for "drive" given the domain would be "clock". It's basically a binary clock signal driving these, right? Maybe "clock drive"?
Yeah, I'm not 100% sold on "drive". There's a few competing ideas here -- initially I called it a "loom", but then I wanted to lean more into the analogy of loading a disk, so "drive" kinda won out.
I get the feeling there's some word in the vicinity of "clock" that I'm missing. Something like "metronome", "pulse", "synchronizer" etc -- because you're right, the (primary) purpose of the drive is to deliver phase information to the disks. Drawing a bit of a blank tho.
I opened this on a mobile device, and it only shows the top and bottom topic buttons. I was pretty confused until I tried turning on "desktop site" in Chrome and saw the left/right buttons.
Having only a linear track of topics kind of undermines the overall idea!
If you don't mind a baking soda toothpaste, then another option is Trader Joe's. They made a baking soda & fluoride toothpaste that is SLS free. Been using it for a number of years now... Though it's been briefly discontinued and is slated to be back later this year.
> here are the empirical distribution functions (ECDFs) with 30ms added to each response time
> The added constant seems artificial, but it's just viewing the results from the point of view of a client with 30ms ping time. Otherwise the log scaled x-axis would overemphasize the importance of a few milliseconds at the low end.
I thought this was interesting - maybe it's a standard practice I was just unaware of but it seems like a smart trick.
Yes and no. When trying to show quantitative data in terms of areas or angles, then you are spot-on: same issues. But these plots, or chord diagrams more generally, are often used to show relationships (like translocations, inversions or duplications in genomes) in context of other landmarks. This use is common and less troublesome. A real problem with Circos plots is that it's so tempting to keep adding additional tracks of "information" that plots get ridiculous. It becomes like staring at the Voynich manuscript: uninterpretable but so compellingly pretty it must mean something.
They aren’t good at measuring small quantities. But it is easy to see 1/4 or 1/2 of a circle. And it is easy to see if something is a straight line, 90 degree, or a little more or less than either of those.
Compared to a bar graph, it seems a little easier to spot that one quantity is, like, half of another. And it is easier to visually sum of a collection of quantities, on a bar graph this is a major pain (unless it is stacked of course but that’s another type of graph).
They are pretty great at converting data between formats, but I always worry there's a small chance it changes the actual data in the output in some small but misleading way.