cckolon

Thank you :)

I love these! “Not Quite the Same” sounds a lot like “The Wrong Abstraction” from my list. It’s a really important point and I’m glad to see there are more articles about it!

Thanks for the callout! I have much more experience with geography but you’re totally right. I’ll add a note

The US Navy still uses nomograms for chemistry control on nuclear reactors!

This is so cool. I would have loved this in college.

I’m implementing the Lox programming language (from Crafting Interpreters [0]) in Rust. https://github.com/cckolon/rlox [0] https://craftinginterpreters.com/ …

Exploration-exploitation tradeoff strikes again

How does this differ from something like MarineTraffic?

Your computer is a sweet machine

Nice, that’s really cool.

I use full length vectors (512 dimensions) and have seen very fast lookups with pgvector (HNSW index) and sqlite-vec on 20k vectors. I think any decent vector database should be able to handle 44k ent…

This is really cool. How is reranking built in? Is there a model that runs inside the database? If so, how did you choose it?

Thanks! Yeah embedding is simple enough and my needs were small enough that I didn’t want to pay. Both llama-server and ollama are great options, and if container size isn’t an issue you get a greater…

This is a really cool idea. By “different models” do you mean models fine tuned on different sources? How would you decide how to classify chunks?

Aren’t most inventions anti-labor by this rationale? We employ fewer farmers than we used to, but this is good for society because people who would be farmers are now working on other things.

https://carlkolon.com My submarine combat game was on the front page a while ago! https://bearingsonly.net …

> 5 - 9 means strong effects, definitely not placebo. It’s impossible for anyone to say this convincingly about their own experience. If it were easy to tell whether an effect was due to placebo, w…

Reminds me of Randall Monroe’s obsession with Simple English https://xkcd.com/547/

Example 01 is basically the “green jellybeans cause acne” problem https://xkcd.com/882/

My wife is a doctor. When I showed her this paper she said “that’s true for humans as well”.

I do think it’s common for managers (especially new ones) to desire too much validation from their reports. James Stockdale offered some advice here in a 1980 Proceedings article [1] > [Leaders] mu…