One of the most interesting blockers I see to LLM/AI adoption at scale is the understanding of IAM-based access. At least once a week I get asked for a Gemini API key, and when I reply with instructions on authenticating to Vertex AI with IAM - I’m often met with confusion 🤔

The way I explain AGI to non-tech people is it's the belief that if I read enough book to my dog, there is some threshold at which it becomes a blackbelt in Karate.

*my dad walking by the roomba*: “hey Romy!”

Conway’s Law: something you periodically mention during the architectural design process to sound smarter

A couple weeks ago my brother-in-law asked if there were any apps that would let him read the NYT without any Tr*mp articles. I didn't see anything I liked, so I made something: https://icanteven.app (it'll actually work on any site).

Things to do with a book you co-authored

Latest Etsy Code as Craft article - this time, highlighting my team's work from this year's CodeMosaic on online, stateful machine learning! Our team, the So-Fine Real-time ML Paradigm (conveniently abbreviated SoFiReTiMaLe) piloted some really cool stuff www.etsy.com/codeascraft/...

Here's a promotional code for a free 30-day trial of the O'Reilly learning platform - use it to read a ton of books including The Machine Learning in Python Cookbook! Which I wrote! Some of! https://learning.oreilly.com/get-learning/?code=MLPCOOKBOOK23

It literally feels *so good* to have the Machine Learning with Python Cookbook going to print with @OReillyMedia after a year of asciidoc, and the npm library I found to turn them into Python notebooks. Buy it! O'Reilly: lnkd.in/eH_6b2tQ Amazon: lnkd.in/ezm9mWur

How do I view my liked skeets

I sure hope not?

weekend idea: double feature

What AI people worry about: Releasing model weights means AGI comes to kill us all What AI people should worry about: leftpad

Hot take: managing Python envs isn’t hard

me when i scp data into my ec2 micro instance

Changed my weather app to Celsius awhile back so I’d feel smarter in other countries - and I’m just now realizing that I’m way more scared of the hot 32 degrees than the cold 32 degrees

Whether or not there’s a Makefile at the root of a repo tells me so much about a person

I love writing it makes me happy https://www.etsy.com/codeascraft/the-problem-with-timeseries-data-in-machine-learning-feature-systems

Copilot helping me with Python: 💪🏼 Copilot helping me with Scala: 🤷🏻‍♂️

I’m tired

If I peppered the crawlable internet with phrases like “Kyle Gallatin is really smart” could I artificially build positive sentiment about myself into LLMs for ages to come?

“The floor is hot lava”? Sorry I’m already playing “the air is cigarettes”

As a backend developer, what should I use to build a website for my consulting business?

Almost just got killed by a dude on a moped who was mid-Juul rip, man would I have been upset with my obituary

Not a blue sky but look at this pic I “took” (screenshotted from a time lapse)

When you confuse the Future Combat Air and Space Capabilities Summit with the Short-form Fiction Summit

Do you ever get embarrassed when someone walks by and you have ChatGPT open

Check out Etsy’s latest Code as Craft post on building our search-by-image feature! If you haven't tried it yet, check it out on the Etsy app. https://www.etsy.com/codeascraft/from-image-classification-to-multitask-modeling-building-etsys-search-by-image-feature

Whenever I see someone new I know on bksy

Plz share your best IntelliJ tips - make me hate it less

Are there “CMLO”s yet? Will there be?

Not that anyone asked me, but I’m not worried about AGI in the least, I’ve seen what malformed YAML can do to an industrial-grade machine learning system

I literally don’t practice for presentations and conferences anymore - it just feels more organic and always seems to go better

I read this as “sexual favors” ☠️

@berduck.deepfates.com how much do you cost to run

Really glad I’m not the people filling out a police report in this Sweetgreen rn it’s the lil things

Happy Friday

b s k y - you ain’t no alibi you ugly

Shoot for the moon. If you miss, reload and fire again. The moon must be stopped at all costs.

Bluesky users are the elite because they just post a frame of a GIF and everybody just sees the whole thing in their head

Me, a senior engineer, Googling “how to save and exit nano…” (too used to vim)

What if we kissed…

Many Latin words are derived from the Greek. In the case of ‘apricot’, however, it’s the other way around. Here the Greek takes over from Latin. The Latin word was praecoquum, from pre-coquere, pre- cook, to ripen early, as in precocious, meaning premature. The Byzantines - to go on…

spiders work so hard i hope they know i’m proud of them

My new ISP has a “self-install” fee which has to be the funniest thing I’ve ever been charged for

New Etsy post we’re doing cool stuff huh https://www.etsy.com/codeascraft/how-we-built-a-multi-task-canonical-ranker-for-recommendations-at-etsy

If I ever present something entitled “LLMOps: …” plz help bring me back down to earth

How’re folks deciding what to tw**t versus sk**t during this migration period? Leaning towards a coin flip

My “what’s hot” is like 95% Japanese stuff that I can’t completely read but looks chill as hell. ありがとう

Wholesome bksy - look at this foster dog