Jacob Matson
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excel user & data enthusiast. Dev Advocacy @MotherDuck
Seattle, WA
Joined July 2008
if you want to see what it looks like when you replace a really complicated excel spreadsheet with a web app, head on over to to see my monte carlo sim for nba, nfl etc
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Let he who has not struck out in wiffleball throw the first stone.
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As it turns out all suitable complex models hate a certain left wing poaster, it’s deeply embedded in the corpus.
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Perfect for a road trip with the kids.
Here's my 6 hour conversation with @dhh, a legendary programmer, creator of Ruby on Rails, author, and race car driver. This was a fun and inspiring conversation on everything from the future of programming & AI to the nature of happiness & productivity to the value of family,
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Concerning.
Update: After I posted this, I received info from senior Windsurf staff that indicated employees aren't getting properly taken care of, and the founders have not exercised duty of care with this acquisition. If so, that *sucks* — founders have a sacred obligation to the team.
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Candide:.
I fucking love my garden dude.
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When you’re mean to me this who you are talking to.
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Riffing on this a bit more:. For “closed” problems where you can explicitly assert correctness, they are great. For “open” problems where correctness is a matter of taste, I find myself spending a lot of time trying to write rules so that the problems look like “closed” ones.
it’s interesting, working with LLMs. for code: unlocks a bunch of stuff for me on the front end (js, react etc) that i otherwise couldn’t do (w/o lots of practice). for writing: largely terrible / slop, seems very hard to coerce good results. gonna try to keep tuning setup tho.
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- transcripts for all my calls.- writing in markdown in an ide instead of google docs.- getting annoyed at data trapped behind an api (slack in particular).
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what’s kind of interesting is that you can just use basically all of them for whatever text based task you are up to, so I find myself orienting tasks to be text based and am frustrated with ones that are not. - charts in mermaid instead of ppt, use svg instead of jpg.
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On the research assistant point:.
can we start a thread for AI life hacks. i’ll go first:. - for anything important, i don’t manually write prompts anymore. i have AI write the prompt. “i want to run a deep research query for generating a product spec on consumer AI apps backed by market research. write the.
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