Vermin2000's comments

On: Using Replit and Cursor to build the same app

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An opinionated blog post on using both Replit and Cursor to build the same app. Which one wins? Would love to hear people's thoughts.

On: The Siren Song – all about sirens

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A blog post about sirens. What they are, how they work, and where to go if you want to hear them.

On: Why are weather forecasting sites so bad?

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Weather forecasting sites are unnecessarily hard to use. The NWS data is free and easy to access, so I built an app with AI that gives me what I want. If I can do this so easily, what other markets will be disrupted?

On: Whiskey Prices

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I've gathered some data on how the price of single malt Scotch whiskey varies with age (some 50 year olds retail over $30,000). I've dug into the dynamics of the industry to find out why!

On: Small Adventures with Small Language Models

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Here's what I found out trying out small language models (SLMs) on my local machine: they're good, but you need a powerful machine to run them properly.

On: Is the Poisson distribution useful for modeling goals?

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It turns out, the Poisson distribution is great for modeling football goals at the league level, but not so much at the club level, despite what's been said on football modeling sites.

On: Ozymandias

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Two poems about Ozymandias (king of kings) and some background.

On: Data sonification: a curious oddity that may have some uses

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A quick explainer on sonification with several examples and some possible uses cases in business.

On: Some musings on code generation: kintsugi

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Some of my thoughts on the strengths and weakness of code generation and how you can make things better.

On: Data scientists need to learn JavaScript

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Data scientists need to move up the food chain and build their own apps. Even with code gen, that means knowing JavaScript.