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I’ve built a small suite of honey-do automations for public defense attorneys in Washington (selenium scripts and OS calls to do docket intake / organization)

Currently packaging as a windows desktop app, recording a demo video, and then distributing


Very cool. I jumped in here thinking it was gonna be something else though: a packaged service for distributing on-prem model running across multiple GPUs.

I'm basically imagining a vast.ai type deployment of an on-prem GPT; assuming that most infra is consumer GPUs on consumer devices, the idea of running the "company cluster" as combined compute of the company's machines


Great point. I can see how you'd land there. Also a great idea! xD

Maybe a better descriptor is "self-sovereign AI?" "Self-hosted AI?"


Sounds like something that could be implemented with llm-d, though I've not experimented with it.

https://llm-d.ai/blog/intelligent-inference-scheduling-with-...


Yeah, I don't see why we could not integrate that. I think that is the next step as we move our workloads to production.


`lf deploy` here we come!


We're building something closer to this at Muna: https://docs.muna.ai . Check us out and let me know what you think!



Let me know when you open source it; I think there is a place for this and I think we could integrate it as a plug in pretty easily into the LlamaFarm framework :)


I'm impressed, how did you determine it was a botcomment?


Commenting because I can't get everyone's email; if you're reading this thread and would be interested in an automation engineering conference please email me at mailto:mail@cadocary.com


OK, so what is to be done when access to labor is gatekept? If you can't have a job, or can't benefit from a job beyond "give a man a fish, he eats for a day", are you not meant to look for an opportunity to generate income outside of working?


If you’re a bookie, and an adherent of these Iron Age religions, then you might be instructed to Render upon Caesar. If being a bookie means feeding your family, you can relax so long as you realize that your responsibility is to slightly nudge the right players to win.


> If being a bookie means feeding your family, you can relax

Am I reading correct that you are saying that in (at least) the Christian religion it is okay to provide gambling services?

Further supporting that the religion does not claim it immoral?

*note: it's stated as such, yet seems to have been ignored, in the linked wiki source above -- maybe your wording, if I understand it correctly, would be suitable for updating the wiki to make it more clear/understood that gambling is not immoral to those who adhere to the Christian bible


> OK, so what is to be done when access to labor is gatekept?

The unemployment rate in the US is 4.3%.

Before you say anything, the U-6 rate is 8.1%.


Okay, so 30 million people, or more conservatively 16 million people. Same question, and before you say anything, don't be condescending.

ETA: Maybe most conservatively, let's use only the % uniquely included in U-6 and excluded in standard, or 14.4 million people. I'll claim these 14m people are the "gatekept from full employment" in that they don't qualify as narrowly unemployed unless you include "all people marginally attached to the labor force, plus total employed part time for economic reasons"(1)

Same question. 14m people who are being excluded from labor, are they not free to attempt to generate income via means other than labor, lest they suffer the judgement of Abraham?

In other words, is Abraham hiring? If not, are the people he refuses to employ meant to accept serfdom to preserve their soul?

(1):https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm


>Same question. 14m people who are being excluded from labor, are they not free to attempt to generate income via means other than labor, lest they suffer the judgement of Abraham?

This makes no sense. Is it really your claim that 14 million people are kept from working? Do you know what the long term unemployment rate is in the US?


I sure do! If LinkedIn can't market my resume to open roles then letting recruiters roll their own scrapers against it is the next best thing. I understand that LI owns my data, I just wish they were effective in using it!

(edit: "my" data, as in the data I post there.)


I guess that was my point, YOU are free to export your data and post it on the internet, but don't make everyone (me) do the same.


I don't see how I (or LinkedIn) is making you do anything? LinkedIn is a place I can post data. I choose to do so in an attempt to market my resume. I fully expect that the data I post on LinkedIn's server becomes and is the property of LinkedIn, and wish it was more effective at extracting value from it?

Because LinkedIn is less effective than I'd like, I support 3rd parties scraping the data I posted there, again on the hope that they'd be more successful at marketing that data, which I would benefit from as the data is my resume.


We're in agreement. I was just saying I don't support 3rd parties scraping my data so as they just get yours and not mine then have at it!


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401 {"ok":false,"error":"X-Application-Key header is required and must be valid"}

Can't find a way to get a key on your website or in your bio?


I think the key is FDE-CHALLENGE-01


Yes; post was updated after my comment

In my experience chatGPT solves the challenge handily, but it does get to the level of problem that GPT requires my code review for, so either I'm not as good at using chat as I could be or they've found the point at which someone has to prove they can actually do code review to filter; nice.


Shhh don't spoil the first filter! ;) Fun set of challenges though, they totally nerd-sniped me.

https://xkcd.com/356/


A webscraping / data pipeline to get the .pdf "Explanation of Benefits", "Proof of Coverage", and "Drug Formulary" for every Medicare Advantage plan in the USA

These docs are gonna be used in a product for medicare brokers (if you are/know one please reach out open enrollment starts Nov.1!), and the pipeline is horizontally scalable to ingest updated 2026 plans overnight @ start of open enrollment (though some companies are posting updated plans earlier)

There are some clever tricks at play but mostly it's bog-standard browser automation; I'm also in an interview process with 2 entities (one funded startup and one massive corporation) talking about web automation roles, and while it's frustrating that they're moving so slowly it's working out to give me time to build this well.


Even assuming this is true, I do not, and will never, care.

The machine is a collection of well organized rocks over which electrons pass. I am a human.

Google is a global corporation that turns cyberstalking into money. I am a human.

Lolz are the highest aspiration available to computers. God forbid I ever lost sight of that.


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