Python developer, author of Make Art with Python. On a mission to bring art and play to software development. Previously lead DevRel at Datadog.
Naples, FL
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Kirk Kaiser retweeted
n config options can often be replaced by k options (with k << n) where k just lets the user express what thing they want to optimize for (typically some tradeoff between latency, throughput, and cost).
This is often very hard! But a 10x better user experience.
Kirk Kaiser retweeted
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10…
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Kirk Kaiser retweeted
There are a sophisticated set of enabling technologies, but the feature’s goal was incredibly simple: to capture the vitality of the world around us. The Live Photo patent has a picture of my daughter as a toddler spinning in a dress in front of our house. As with a Live Photo, the more time passes, the more endearing it’s become.
live photos hit this perfect intersection of tech & tenderness. it might be the most quietly brilliant thing apple ever made. it’s a subtle wordless trick that turns stillness into something breathing.
i just stumbled on one & it hit like a gut punch. ridiculous that all photos have a tiny slice of life before the pose, the laugh or blink right before the photo froze… it makes your chest ache hardcore esp for a memory you can never ever have again.
Kirk Kaiser retweeted
192 weeks notes.ekzhang.com/reflection…
Kirk Kaiser retweeted
Wrote this up as a blog post and decided that yes, for me it still matters
vickiboykis.com/2025/10/20/i…
Kirk Kaiser retweeted
inkwell is a self-funded project.
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Kirk Kaiser retweeted
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Kirk Kaiser retweeted
This issue is peak @pydantic team:
* Multiple people, mostly from big-tech, discuss what the problem might be
* One of our team (Alex) explains what the issue is...
* Which is apparently in a library (uvicorn) which is maintained by another member of our team (@marcelotryle)...
* Turns out the actual underlying issue is with python asyncio
Privilege to work with these people.
github.com/open-telemetry/op…
Kirk Kaiser retweeted
ended up writing a post about the current state of the embedding landscape vickiboykis.com/2025/09/01/h…
thinking i need to update this part of the embeddings paper, this was the case when i wrote it but likely no longer true - is everyone using 768 (min) now?
ALT We often talk about item embeddings being in X dimensions, ranging anywhere from 100 to 1000, with diminishing returns in usefulness somewhere beyond 200-300 in the context of using them for machine learning problems
Kirk Kaiser retweeted
Carl Jung made a point long ago that both foreshadows fractured entangled representation (FER) and offers a thought-provoking critique of modern ML in general: "Beware of unearned wisdom." (I'd update it to "unearned knowledge" for AI today.)
If the way that you acquire knowledge impacts your facility for applying that knowledge in the future through its consequent underlying representation, then what price do you pay for the unnatural vacuuming up of vast swaths of knowledge in a giant disorganized batch?
Unearned knowledge has a cost that's rarely if ever discussed in AI or ML.
Thank you to @jakobmrees, an undergrad at NYU, for perceptively bringing this quote to my attention!
Kirk Kaiser retweeted
At this stage AI will provide a huge boost to balanced people that don't jump in any extreme hype / anti-hype train, and will create issues to the folks that don't see that judicious application of LLMs is the key. One of those historical moments when wisdom is an advantage.
