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rlesser.bsky.social
Engineer at Nomic AI | building tools for seeing in a high-dimensional world
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I think that’s true, and also people find ways to rationalize support for things they genuinely enjoy using/doing
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I think trending is still up? observablehq.com/trending But it’s been massively hidden, I’m not sure if there’s a single public-facing link to it on the whole site. Definitely a bummer
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To absolute’s credit, nowhere else I know of let you get a Thai iced tea along with your bagel. That was really something
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My sense is that both absolute and relative time could be meaningful over time - “what does decay look like for 10 year time gaps” but also “what does the decay trajectory look like for sites from 2014?” With enough data you could make a nice “Medusa chart” showing both. Cc @toph.me
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This problem was solved years ago
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I am a broken record on this but LLM text embeddings are an incredible breakthrough, and the ability for anyone to build pretty good classifiers with structured output could be insanely useful. Trying to build NLP interfaces is taking my team an extremely long time and is extremely brittle
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Probably the getRelationships endpoint not working correctly: github.com/bluesky-soci...