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Andrew Gross
@gross.systems
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Engineer at YipitData.
NYC Area

https://github.com/andrewgross/
https://gross.systems

I was told I had to add AI Engineer to my profile for the bots to find me.

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@bsky.app UI Idea: It would be nice to be able to click in to the Alt Text prompt to be able to write the alt text directly (default for the first image I guess) instead of having to hit +Alt. It gets me every time.
July 11, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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@anthropic.com Major Bug, I think Claude Code prompting needs to be fixed so that it will state "Reticulating Splines..." when it is thinking
Claude Code thinking bar stating "Shucking..." and its duration and tokens per second.
July 11, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Cursed Pyspark knowledge
Image showing that when passing a dictionary of data to be converted to a Pyspark dataframe with a defined schema, that column order only matters when using a Pandas dataframe. When passing just a dict of values order does not matter.
May 27, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Bonus, I was testing on Nous Llama 3 8B, and the MIPROv2 optimizer added a funny set of stakes (similar to my grandma will die):
Screenshot of Prompt Text: In adhering to this structure, your objective is: In a high-stakes scenario where a critical decision is being made about the containment of a pandemic, extract all contiguous tokens referring to specific people from a list of string tokens, including their names, titles, and affiliations. Output a list of tokens, without combining multiple tokens into a single value. This information is crucial for identifying key individuals involved in the decision-making process and understanding their roles.
January 6, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Nice
P2P Perf of 50GB/s between two graphics cards after installing custom 4090 p2p driver
December 17, 2024 at 5:28 AM
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December 11, 2024 at 2:21 AM
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Every once and a while it will surprise you:
Histogram of confidence values with the vast majority at 0.85 and 0.9, but a single value at 0.0.
November 27, 2024 at 8:40 PM
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Guess I lied a little bit. Qwen did give some answers outside of 0.9 but also:
Histogram showing the distribution of confidence scores with a massive spike at 0.9 and minimal values at 0.8, 0.85 and 0.95
November 27, 2024 at 8:05 PM
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Add "half of star" to the list of things (like a completely full glass of wine) that ChatGPT can't generate
November 14, 2024 at 8:59 PM
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Sometimes Llama70b Chat gets a little touchy:
September 13, 2023 at 2:57 PM