alan blount

@glitch Trust yourself. Everything is hard when you first learn it... But like sitting, standing, crawling, toddling, walking, running, skipping, and interpretive dance... You build yourself via practice and persistence, layer by layer, until the basics are natural and you too can dance.

@rauchg hey @rauchg we should talk about A2UI.com and reconciliation instead of fragmentation -- DM me or LinkedIn, or email me or whatever

Glimpse of a world of fully generative interfaces. AI → JSON → UI: github.com/vercel-labs/js…

State of American Government from Bernie youtube.com/live/QWf_b-_4u… @ 20min, very understandable and well argued. I'd welcome one comparable ~20 min session from someone from the pro-trump to explain their points of view, especially if it includes some facts. Anyone?

@shanselman There are hundreds of options, many of them easy. Few are going to deliver high quality results, very few are going to do so for a specialized domain like healthcare without a fair bit of domain alignment. Vertex AI Search is a good & easy starting point, especially at scale.

What’s the easiest way to make a chatbot that I can feed 50 to 60 gigs of PDFs into and then have a grounded conversation about roughly 6000 medical papers? Where is the relatively inexpensive “throw gigs into a folder and get RAG” solution? #AI

@markopolojarvi @rauchg @lgrammel You're not wrong. I'd argue that for a "real" application, I don't know if I would trust the internet as a source of information anyway, but maybe I'm salty. Demos: github.com/GoogleCloudPla… Alternative approach: cloud.google.com/generative-ai-…

@rauchg @lgrammel It is such a great feature but for any real application the issue is that because Google's API doesn't provide sources, you're still left with that "trust me bro" guarantee.

This is a remarkable advantage by Google AI. 1LOC grounding on the world's best search engine. Now available on the AI SDK.

@skirano I've been dreaming of controlling cypress.js with (a) screencapture videos and (b) describing what I want to have happen and building a cypress spec. Is that along the lines of what you're talking about?

I am building a system to teach Gemini Flash new skills by observing the actions I take on my computer so it can repeat them. I found a way to achieve 100% accuracy in Gemini's ability to recognize what I am clicking. The trick? Draw a blue circle where the click happens. 🔵

📢Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard Update: Discover the enhanced performance and cost-efficiency of @GoogleDeepMind's Gemini-1.5-pro and Gemini-1.5-flash, alongside @OpenAI's new gpt-4o models ⚡️Gemini sets a new benchmark in function-calling 🏆and improves its capabilities in relevance detection - ability to say NO! Parallel-multiple function calls continue to be elusive 👀 Play around: gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.ht…

@savant @Apple Sneaky "ello"... I didn't notice that easter egg... I'll ask

@zeroasterisk @Apple Bro what

After much family harassment, I feel vindicated (at least a little) by this campaign from Google. See, it's not _my_ phone that's the problem! @Apple, stop breaking my texting experience. #GetTheMessage android.com/get-the-message

@laurenthehough I will not spill the beans

Please respect my privacy during this difficult time

@garrett_codes Reasonable reason... But have you tried elixir... :)

@zeroasterisk Working at Stripe 🙂 they have lots of Ruby code

The hardest thing about learning Ruby so far: typing "nil" instead of "null"

@wesbos "Use Google Calendar appointment slots - Computer - Google Calendar Help" #zippy=" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">support.google.com/calendar/answe… We use these all the time, for office hours or whatever. Convenient and simple.

Did I see that Google Cal was rolling out something like Savvy Cal / Callendly? I want something like this that is super lightweight to book podcast guests. Make spots available, have someone pick a spot, and add to cal.

@boyney123 @apievangelist Nice, thanks for the link/info. I'm in the market for generalizable graph visualization, but with a goal of visualizing a workflow, or UX flow, or API flow... Complex graph as a data structure for journey, and a means of visualizing that journey/graph.

@apievangelist @zeroasterisk Hey Alan, Yeah we have some d3 examples in our studio: studio.asyncapi.com (feel free to contribute any ideas you have) Also, we have other tools like Cupid @asyncapi/cupid" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">npmjs.com/package/@async… that can visualise AsyncAPI files ♥️ What ideas do you have in mind?

@apievangelist you mentioned a project for consuming asyncapi spec and generating a graph, perhaps via d3. I've been thinking about something like that for a while and would love to see what has already been done. Can you please send me a link? I cannot find it.

@b0rk Like so many others, why a new container on every request? It seems like you have a hammer and are trying to construct a road... The hammer is good for some things, but not all. I assume you have a reason for these constraints... Address those reasons.

trying to figure out how to run a container on every HTTP request in a reasonably fast way. docker and podman seem to add a lot of overhead (maybe a few hundred milliseconds?). Previously i wrote some namespace code myself but it feels like there should be a library for this?

My favorite paper for reflecting on before the New Year asks the key question: how can we be happier? The world's top happiness scholars ranked the best strategies for individual & societal happiness, here are results listed by feasibility & effectiveness link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Oliver's first volleyball tournament was on Saturday, he played well, had all the fun, and won. @ Prime Volleyball Academy instagram.com/p/CTOk421MV6c/…

Great family hike to lost lake, on Saturday. I'll be going back there for sure. @ Hessie Trailhead instagram.com/p/CS7PbC0poq2/…

Watched lots of meteors tonight... This video is a plane flying over, but communicates the general idea. @ Grand Lake, Colorado instagram.com/p/CSbI6TUFtJH/…