Engineer at Nomic AI | building tools for seeing in a high-dimensional worldhttps://bsky.app/profile/rlesser.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/rlesser.bsky.social/post/3ld7qey3foc2bThis is a real loss, but my undisputed UWS GOAT Broadway Bagel on 101 remains very much alive. Long live the egg everything BEC [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 Dec 2024 21:33 +0000at://did:plc:fcun3zkgxnxeibrargg5embm/app.bsky.feed.post/3ld7qey3foc2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/rlesser.bsky.social/post/3lckvqg5fux25You know a side project is getting out of hand when you start making a settings page before anyone has actually used it05 Dec 2024 14:43 +0000at://did:plc:fcun3zkgxnxeibrargg5embm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lckvqg5fux25https://bsky.app/profile/rlesser.bsky.social/post/3lc6yus33ys25What a beautiful win. The look on Ryan's face in that final moment made the whole season worth it!!!30 Nov 2024 21:07 +0000at://did:plc:fcun3zkgxnxeibrargg5embm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lc6yus33ys25https://bsky.app/profile/rlesser.bsky.social/post/3lbffmunmap2kAdventures in DuckDB + Huggingface + ArrowJS - If you try to stream arrow IPC out of HF with DuckDB, for some reason the batches come back in ~random order! ArrowJS decided to explode when this happens. Not even sure who's at fault here, but excited for this ecosystem to continue to mature #databs20 Nov 2024 16:46 +0000at://did:plc:fcun3zkgxnxeibrargg5embm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbffmunmap2khttps://bsky.app/profile/rlesser.bsky.social/post/3latlluypjs2gBack in 2022 I published this post analyzing 15M tweets with Wordle results, with some fascinating results: https://observablehq.com/@rlesser/wordle-twitter-exploration The hardest part by far was gathering a huge dataset from a platform hostile to such analysis. Very excited that Bluesky encourages this type of exploration!13 Nov 2024 14:45 +0000at://did:plc:fcun3zkgxnxeibrargg5embm/app.bsky.feed.post/3latlluypjs2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/rlesser.bsky.social/post/3lahrx62r2525Great write up on how Val Town built Townie, probably the best LLM coding experience I’ve used. A huge part of what makes it so nice is how little boilerplate/infrastructure the VT environment needs. Easier for people and easier for LLMs when everyone can focus on the business logic alone. [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 Nov 2024 22:07 +0000at://did:plc:fcun3zkgxnxeibrargg5embm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lahrx62r2525https://bsky.app/profile/rlesser.bsky.social/post/3l7qmtrlm4a2rOne of the most exciting things I’ve worked on at Nomic. There is huge untapped potential in taking people on a journey through a dataset, especially for text and image sets that are currently so hard to reason about [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Oct 2024 17:04 +0000at://did:plc:fcun3zkgxnxeibrargg5embm/app.bsky.feed.post/3l7qmtrlm4a2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/rlesser.bsky.social/post/3jwin6o7ps32oThis is now a force-directed-graph-posting account, all other content posted is anomalous behavior24 May 2023 18:36 +0000at://did:plc:fcun3zkgxnxeibrargg5embm/app.bsky.feed.post/3jwin6o7ps32o