bobburger

Unfortunately you’ll never actually tear it down and rebuild it through pointeless slacktivism on obscure internet forums to sympathetic strangers.

Until you’ve torn down the system and rebuilt it you only hurt yourself and your cause by refusing to participate.

If you’re doing a lot of reporting I highly recommend getting familiar with Quarto. It’s incredibly flexible for writing ad hoc reports, automated reporting, dashboards, presentations, etc. You can use python, R, observable, or Julia.

I’m not sure what features you’re looking for, but Quarto has a lot of really nice features that make it really easy to self host a blog.

Llamafile is a great way to get use an LLM locally. Inference is incredibly fast on my ARM macbook and rtx 4060ti, its okay on my Intel laptop running Ubuntu.

I got a little case like this one, helps a ton

I’ve almost entirely switched to using pak for managing my R packages. I’m not 100% sure what the magic is in pak, but it’s really made my life easier when installing packages.

I’m not sure if you’re using Quarto or not, but use it almost daily and frequently write R and Python in the same file without any noticeable overhead.

Per the map it’s “GDP purchasing power per capita” which sounds inflation adjusted.

Llamafile runs entirely on your machine. The largest one I can run locally is Mistral-7B and Wizardcoder 13B. They seem to be on par with chatgpt-3, but that’s okay for my purposes.

I use it for exactly the same thing.

I used to spend hours agonizing over documenting things because I couldn’t get the tone right, or in over explained, or some other stupid shit.

Now I give my llamafile the code, it gives me a reasonable set of documentation, I edit the documentation because the LLM isn’t perfect, and I’m done in 10 minutes.

A simpler answer might be llamafile if you’re using Mac or Linux.

If you’re on windows you’re limited to some smaller LLMs without some work. In my experience the smaller LLMs are still pretty good as chat bots so they might translate well.

You can’t really go wrong with anything Patagonia. I’m not sure what your specific need is, but they probably have a jacket that would fit your need.

If you you’re not interested in paying full price check out their used clothing.

The Synik 30 by Tom Bihn might be a good option for you. I’ve had a similar model for about 10 years and it’s still in great shape.

It allows me to comfortably carry my stuff around on my back and looks pretty cool, which is all I really ask from a backpack.

I love duckDB, my usual workflow is:

• initially read my data from whatever source (CSV, relational database somewhere, whatever)
• write it to one or more parquet files in a directory
• tell duckdb that the directory is my data source

Then duckdb treats the directory just like a databese that you can build indexes on, and since they’re parquet files they’re hella small and have static typing. It was pretty fast and efficient before, and duckdb has really sped up my data wrangling and analysis a ton.

Should include “has duckplyr” which is bad ass in the few weeks I’ve been using it.

I have a soft spot for Jenkins because it was the first integration tool I ever used fresh out of college.

But today I want to stab the server because a job started failing randomly with a permission error when trying to copy a file.

I have a soft spot for Jenkins because it was the first integration tool I ever used fresh out of college.

But today I want to stab the server because a job started failing randomly with a permission error when trying to copy a file.

I love DuckDB. It’s really nice to be able to put a bunch of parquet files in a directory and then do operations on them as if they were a sql database. You can even put an index on the files if you’re feeling froggy.