I've been working on Red Candle, a Ruby gem that runs LLMs (Llama, Mistral, Gemma, Phi) directly in your Ruby process through Rust bindings (based on the candle crate from Hugging Face). No Python, no servers - just FFI with Metal/CUDA acceleration.
It's been useful for adding AI features to Rails apps without the complexity of managing separate services. Would love feedback from anyone working with LLMs in Ruby.
110M to 50 firms over 5 years is about 440k/year/firm. That’s roughly 2, maybe 3 FTEs on average. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a fan and averages can hide a lot, but that’s not exactly swimming in foreign money either.
I'd love to take a look at pistachio, I didn't see it either.
I'm glad you like the idea, that's exactly why I created it. You can use the Evernote webclipper to clip articles and the site uses embedly to add rich content automatically. I'll have a screencast on how to use it to create a link blog in the coming days.
I'm sorry for the error. I shouldn't have submitted it to hacker news right before leaving for a meeting. Lesson learned, it's fixed now.
The reason, in case anyone is interested: the footer shows the most recent posts. Someone created some posts that contained data that I wasn't expecting. That caused the footer to raise an error. I removed the recent posts from the footer (from my phone, before the meeting) and the site returned to normal.
I'm really sorry for the error, but I learned something from it, so thank you!
PS, existing blogs weren't affected, it was only the homepage.
First, it starts off talking about the iPad and how Flash may not be the CPU hog its made out to be. It then goes on to say that HTML5 is more efficient than Flash in Safari. The iPad runs Safari, in effect contradicting their previous argument about the iPad.
Next, they say that Apple could allow Adobe to make Flash faster, all they have to do is open up access to the hardware APIs. Who exactly wants a browser plugin to have low level access to the hardware APIs?
Seems kind of ridiculous to say that something else is at work here. Does Apple want to kill Flash? Probably, but even if they didn't want to, they've got plenty of reasons not to allow flash on the iPhone/iPad/etc.
I have to disagree. I find the more I share ideas and advice, the more I get in return. The free flow of ideas benefits the giver as well as the receiver. As an added bonus, the more good advice I can give and the more ideas I can share, the more ideas and advice come my way.
You could make an argument that once you've "made it" this exchange becomes asymmetrical. However, I'm grateful for those interactions I've had with people who have "made it" and wouldn't begrudge that to others when/if I have.
I'm reminded of a quote from Howard Aiken:
"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats."
It's been useful for adding AI features to Rails apps without the complexity of managing separate services. Would love feedback from anyone working with LLMs in Ruby.
GitHub: https://github.com/assaydepot/red-candle