Vincent D. Warmerdam

My summary of lessons learned applying data science.

Thanks for the shoutout!

@akshaykagrawal grasstouchmaxxing 4 da win

In this age of tokenmaxxing and productivity-maxxing … don’t forget to play, like Vincent does in this video. Play is the source of creativity, and creativity is more important than ever.

@S_Conradi Imagine a path on a 2d slider. Then imagine that the 2d slider could slide itself along that path. Then imagine that we use different methods to smoothe the path between the pucks.

@fishnets88 Is it a normal Slider2D or something else?

We are going live later today with a first public preview of polars cloud. Count me excited! youtube.com/live/TTMecrbUD…

Wigglystuff has a new, and very satisfying, graph widget! Give it as spin in our WASM environment here: molab.marimo.io/github/koaning…

@kitledru @HamelHusain @answerdotai @R_Dimm let's ping after our in person talks in June.

I can't speak for them, I'm just a student of the course (how SolveIt rolled out initially), but the best you could do is talk to Jeremy directly I suppose. FWIW my guess is they're deep in the trenches doing the work, we expect a public release hopefully Soon™ : ) So communication may increase near/after that.

We're doing an extra livestream this week with @HamelHusain Small hint: it'll be about notebooks. youtube.com/live/XaKvqdOJl…

@kitledru @HamelHusain @answerdotai I would love to do a livestream to exchange notes with folks working on that project.

That's one I will want to watch! I don't know if SolveIt by @answerdotai will be mentioned but it's by far the best programming + AI + learn-as-you-go platform I've used. Ever. It's surreal. Whatever hot thing of the month buzzes on X has been baked-in SolveIt for a year+, just a tool/function away (same thing). Agents, IR/RAG, search, multimodal, multimodel, context engineering, you-name-it: it's all there and if not, you can just DIY. In the SolveIt environment, notebooks are getting really dangerous. All the wiring has been solved or is about to, whether backend (serve SSL etc) or frontend (JS, CDP etc). IMO, the endgame of this thing is alien to this industry and a real 10x better for the categories of problems it solves (it's not for everything either, no such thing exists). They're all doing incredible work at Answer.AI, and they share so much. Their GitHub repos are a trove of goodies (and a masterclass in programming for me).

@GradySimon You can't click the link in the above message? If you search for "calmcode" on YT you should also find my profile there.

@fishnets88 I often want to watch videos you post here on YouTube instead, but I can’t figure out how to open them in YouTube from X and it’s also not easy to find just via YouTube search. Link?

If you're gonna vibe-code, you still want to make great software exist. But that's not easy. Great software is 99% invisible. youtube.com/watch?v=5gwV6s…

We're gonna go live in a bit, feel free to join live! youtube.com/live/AWqNIrBUL…

just another very normal day at @marimo_io, educating AI code reviewers: @GitHubCopilot: "wigglystuff does not exist, use a real published package." @fishnets88, author of wigglystuff: "I am literally right here." pypi.org/project/wiggly…

@MrSanders If you like those, you may like to hear about this: @marimo-team" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@marimo-team

@fishnets88 I knew you for keyboards reviews and stayed because of python and uv tutorials!

The keyboard is not for everyone. But I wish more boards could automate the mouse like this one does. It does it so well! youtu.be/0y1jKq6RzjY

@marimo_io Shoutout to @iwiwi. This was a fun paper to reflect on!

Ask an LLM to pick a random number and odds are, it's not random. The biases in models make generative outputs repetitive. Turns out you can improve output diversity through a thought prompting trick. Tutorial below ⬇️ Paper by @SakanaAILabs

You know that feeling, that you think you can add a new feature only to find out that it is already supported?

@baggiponte @conductor_build Not on the neovim bandwagon just yet. Maybe someday, just not right now.

@fishnets88 @conductor_build Lua is a fine and fun language - been using it with neovim 🤙🏻

Believe it or not, but thanks to @conductor_build I now find myself learning a little bit of Lua (not hard at all, super fun language) and Love2D. Why? Well, because all of this has just unlocked my SteamDeck, that's why! youtube.com/watch?v=FDcNTl…

Seriously, this game framework is the bees knees. This is hello world! love2d.org

@GergelyOrosz All I can say is that I am not unhappy about going into devrel to work/understand that problem space better 🙂

I am in the business of spotting trends inside software engineering (now also AI engineering) and things/techniques/tools etc that get traction. The trend I see is it's faster and easier than ever to build something that *could* be useful, but seems super hard to get traction (maybe as a result, or maybe as a result of building stuff that doesn't have all that much demand) Building a successful startup has not gotten any easier!

Starting to REALLY see how reaching potential customers is becoming a massive pain point for software startups - esp w AI! I get so much more messages about software that founders built rapidly that they think will solve some important problem (usually eg AI+context/trust/security). But how will anyone know about it? It was fast to build, but getting the world to know about it / care about it is increasingly hard/expensive/time-consuming. And the irony is: the "easier" it is to build, the more the only differentiation is marketing/advertising! (Because the easier it is to build, the more teams build something similar in parallel, and racing to win the market becomes key!)