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Jun 9
@claudeai I find that a significant proportion of code review comments I leave at work are around issues with documentation (code comments, docstrings, docs) written by Claude, much more so than issues with the code itself.
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Jun 9
I can write my own review skills to help identify these, but I think the issues are general enough that it would be great if this was a focus for upcoming releases.
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My latest books cartoon for @GuardianBooks
Many more here: theguardian.com/profile/tom-…
ALT Panel 1 A small girl and boy are reading on the floor. A father appears at the door and says: "This is so nice to see! I heard that kids these days weren't reading." One of the children says "Ugh, reading? So lame!" Panel 2 She continues "It's called Booksmaxxing now, Dad!" He replies as he is leaving "'m just happy you're enjoying it." Panel 3 The boy says "Booksmaxxing?" The girl says "I like to mess with him."
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continueFromHereClaude
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2 Jul 2025
Bad news -- I'm not going to be with my employer for much longer due to team relocation demands. If anyone has any leads for roles that would allow me to continue my Rust compiler work (in New York City), they'd be greatly appreciated.
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31 Dec 2024
I wrote a progress report / retrospective on the RTen machine learning runtime in 2024, looking at the added features and progress towards performance parity with more mature runtimes: robertknight.me.uk/posts/rte…
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27 Oct 2024
RTen v0.14 has been released. It adds examples for Whisper speech recognition and RMBG background removal, plus compatibility with tokenizers exported by the latest version of Hugging Face Transformers - github.com/robertknight/rten…
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27 Oct 2024
When starring a repo, it would be cool for maintainers if users could provide context on why it is interesting ("I really need a FooBar implementation for my XYZ project")
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21 Oct 2024
The onslaught of unhinged political content in my Twitter feed got a bit much over the weekend. This prompted me to take another look at Bluesky (robertknight2.bsky.social). My first impressions are quite positive.
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20 Sep 2024
I've been working on safer and more ergonomic slicing APIs for the next rten release using type-level arithmetic.
chw_tensor.slice((0, .., 0)) // Statically infers result is 1D
nchw_tensor.slice(0) // Statically infers result is 3D
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20 Sep 2024
Additionally there is the possibility to specialize based on the static argument types, making slicing fast enough to use inside operator kernels.
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20 Sep 2024
I appreciate the Street Fighter analogy at the end.
20 Sep 2024
This is why having AI write code for you sucks. Literally just have the training wheels on forever. Great point by @dhh
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17 Sep 2024
Very easy way to improve the quality of your work: whenever you put up a PR, take a few seconds to skim through it yourself just as a reviewer would (i.e., in the GitHub UI). I find a surprising number of small issues this way that never stand out in the editor.
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8 Sep 2024
There’s a very high quality conversation happening about uv and its risk/benefits for Python overall happening on Mastodon - I gathered some notes and illustrative quotes here simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/8…
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Today the 10 millionth person registered for parkrun 🚀
🌳 #loveparkrun
ALT Graphic with image of parkrunners on a path next to a body of water. On top of the image is the parkrun logo and the following text - 10 million in the parkrun community
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30 Aug 2024
RTen v0.13.1 is out. It fixes a few bugs that enables the Silero speech detection model to work (github.com/robertknight/rten…).
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25 Aug 2024
youtube.com/watch?v=wGSSUSea… is a good watch on the basic principles of writing efficient code for modern CPUs. It matches my experience that predictability is the main quality that matters.
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24 Aug 2024
RTen v0.13 has been released. It adds support for ONNX models with branches (the `If` operator), including encoder-decoder models exported from Hugging Face such as TrOCR - github.com/robertknight/rten…
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21 Aug 2024
AI in your text editor is so passé. How about AI in your fonts - github.com/hsfzxjy/handwrite….
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20 Aug 2024
Today, we're shipping a series of features that move uv beyond a pip alternative, and into an end-to-end solution for managing Python projects, command-line tools, single-file scripts, and even Python itself.
A single, unified tool. Like Cargo, for Python.
It's very fast.
ALT Resolving the Transformers project with all optional dependencies enabled, without (top) and with (bottom) caching.
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31 Jul 2024
rustc should have a `-Z fun-safe-math-optimizations` flag. C developers shouldn't have all the fun.
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