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Robert Lesser
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Engineer at Nomic AI | building tools for seeing in a high-dimensional world
I think that’s true, and also people find ways to rationalize support for things they genuinely enjoy using/doing
January 14, 2025 at 3:39 AM
I think trending is still up? observablehq.com/trending

But it’s been massively hidden, I’m not sure if there’s a single public-facing link to it on the whole site. Definitely a bummer
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January 13, 2025 at 10:58 PM
To absolute’s credit, nowhere else I know of let you get a Thai iced tea along with your bagel. That was really something
December 13, 2024 at 9:33 PM
My sense is that both absolute and relative time could be meaningful over time - “what does decay look like for 10 year time gaps” but also “what does the decay trajectory look like for sites from 2014?”

With enough data you could make a nice “Medusa chart” showing both. Cc @toph.me
December 9, 2024 at 6:03 AM
This problem was solved years ago
November 19, 2024 at 9:29 PM
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November 18, 2024 at 7:57 PM
Reposted by Robert Lesser
I am a broken record on this but LLM text embeddings are an incredible breakthrough, and the ability for anyone to build pretty good classifiers with structured output could be insanely useful.

Trying to build NLP interfaces is taking my team an extremely long time and is extremely brittle
November 13, 2024 at 3:49 PM