Not my product, but I agree it’s confusing. I assume that, like Ollama, it started out with support for one family of models, and then expanded scope and outgrew its name.
This looks wonderful, I've dreamt of something like this back when I was in academia!
You mention some advanced stuff like abstract index notation which is usually the hardest part to get right with things like simpy and even mathematica, how does your package handle simplifications of complex tensor expressions (GR, hydrodynamics, etc.)?
You can specify symmetry/antisymmetry patterns for tensor index slots and it takes advantage of that to speed up the calculations. This part was pretty important for me so i spent some time thinking about it. I wanted to try to put xACT’s patterns in but it would have been quite the undertaking.
> While LLMs have massive valuations right now. Pretty sure the public has spoken when it comes to the differences you fail to illustrate actually mattering.
Are you seriously using market valuation as an indicator of worth?
I can see why, when I work/focus, I like to use my computer instead of my phone because that's where my headphones are connected (easy switch for meetings, etc.) and I generally like to be nice to my phone battery.
Just last week my friend told me a senior manager in a meeting made a passive aggressive comment about “I don’t know why the team is so busy and can’t take on more work right now, when they seem to have time working on other personal projects”. Referring directly to someone that was in their org who had just posted about some personal project work on LinkedIn.
It happens all the time…companies don’t like (or don’t approve) of work outside of work.
HN has become my main feed for non-news stories and I quite like it, particularly because it has a higher density of small web tech articles and those are my favourite. It doesn't have to be highest quality or most innovative, but reading someone's articulated opinion on their blog is what I go on internet for.
I also generally enjoy the comment section because people here tend to at least argue intelligently, even if I don't always agree with the viewpoints. I will say I find the dissonance between the "hacker" and the "tech startup" ethe to be quite amusing. I may work for a large company in their 'tech' area, but I can never feel fully at home among the more entrepreneurial-minded people. I really struggle to cheer for tech companies' stocks like they are football teams, but to each their own.
Thank you HN for being a unique place on the Internet, it's truly refreshing.
We're using ducklake with data storage on Google cloud storage and the catalog inside a postgres database and it's a breeze! It may not be the most mature product, but it's definitely a good setup for small to medium applications which still require a data lake.
I really like the pattern presented in the article. I find myself guilty of designing errors which are useful to me, but maybe not to my user (which tbh in my area is always a bit of a nebulous entity). I really like the idea of separating those two intents, and to make explicit the possible action.
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