David Humphrey

Walking in the woods. Coding in the browser.

[David Humphrey @humphd]

Today my daughter and I are pleased to announce the release of our first open source project together!

https://t.co/7NFa9WUcGW

ACTION is an AI detector pipeline for automatically extracting animal/fish clips from camera trap videos. It uses the YOLO-Fish and MegaDetector models

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

No Margot Robbie in a bathtub today. Just a hedgehog who's been watching private credit for months and needs you to read this carefully.

🦔The biggest banks on Wall Street are launching a new tool next week to bet against private credit funds, the same $3 trillion corner of finance that quietly holds money from pension funds and retirement accounts. JPMorgan, Bank of America, Barclays, Deutsche Bank, and Goldman Sachs are working with S&P Global to launch a credit default swap index called CDX Financials, allowing investors to profit if private credit fund managers including Apollo, Ares, and Blackstone run into trouble.

Credit default swaps are insurance contracts that pay out when borrowers default. Banks want protection against their own exposure. Hedge funds want to profit from a downturn. This comes as Blue Owl reported 41% redemption requests last quarter and Carlyle's fund was hit with a 15.7% redemption request this week, more than three times its normal limit.

My Take
I want to explain why this matters for regular people because the language around it is designed to be confusing.

Private credit is a market where investment firms lend directly to companies outside the traditional banking system. Millions of Americans have indirect exposure through pension funds and 401k plans without knowing it. When those loans go bad and investors try to get their money out simultaneously, funds gate withdrawals, meaning you simply cannot access your money when you need it.

What the banks are doing now is building the infrastructure to profit when that happens. Credit default swap indexes were central to the 2008 financial crisis, and that doesn't mean we're heading there again. But when the largest banks on Wall Street simultaneously decide they need protection against private credit losses, and hedge funds are lining up to bet on a collapse, people with retirement savings in these funds deserve to understand what the people on the other side of that trade are seeing.

Hedgie🤗

[David Humphrey @humphd]

@openrouter It's great in theory, but...

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[David Humphrey @humphd]

@Ubiquiti Still zero response, which I find hard to understand. I've filed a ticket, sent email, spoken with you. There is no phone number I can call. How does one deal with an order missing pieces? I get that mistakes happen, but there needs to be a way to fix this.

[David Humphrey @humphd]

@Ubiquiti I've just received an order that is missing 2 boxes, and I'm wondering how to go about correcting this? I've sent an email to [email protected], but I'm still waiting for any response. Are there other options? The store web site is not overly helpful about how to contact

[David Humphrey @humphd]

I figured this out, it's my mistake: the provisioning key is admin level, and my account in the org is "member" level, so it shows me all the API keys I own.

[David Humphrey @humphd]

@openrouter Is it intentional or a bug that API Keys provisioned via the REST API don't show up in an organization's API Keys UI on the web, but do via https://t.co/ktqQ7bPv0s ? I would expect API Keys I create via the API to work the same as ones in the UI and show there too.

[iNaturalist @inaturalist]

We're looking for another engineer to join our team! Learn more: https://t.co/1Ad678MyFi

[David Humphrey @humphd]

@cjihrig did you ever write about what you're cooking with k8s and node?

[David Humphrey @humphd]

@HurlDev fantastic presentation today from one of my open source students today about what it's like to contribute to hurl and how good the reviews and community has been so far https://t.co/HXR8pJ2RCw

[Ryan Dahl @rough__sea]

5 years later, issue 2552 is closed! https://t.co/0YaMdNHL1Z

[Pierre-Yves Oudeyer @pyoudeyer]

Human Creativity in the Age of LLMs

Randomized Experiments on Divergent and Convergent Thinking

"Our findings reveal that while LLM assistance can provide short-term boosts in creativity during assisted tasks, it may inadvertently hinder independent creative
performance when users work without assistance, raising concerns about the long-term impact on human creativity and cognition."

by @1harsh_kumar J. Vincentius, E. Jordan, @ashton1anderson

📖 https://t.co/n74R0trIzu

[Priyantha Wijesinghe @elaphrornis]

@ben_a_goldfarb @NewYorker An incredible story, told v well! Nice to see mention of @inaturalist, the best source for up to date distribution records of species. With so much intentional & continued spreading of the species by people its range here won’t attract scientific study! 🦎
https://t.co/6OpBeHwjgW

[David Humphrey @humphd]

@dfahlander Noticed that you'd shipped this, great work. Have you written a more technical discussion of what it's using anywhere? I'd be interested to read.

Love Dexie

[David Humphrey @humphd]

I spend more time fixing my code for eslint to continue working in my projects than I do fixing things that eslint finds. I'm getting to the point where I feel like it's not worth the extra maintenance.

[Philipp Schmid @_philschmid]

How can we make our documentation, notes, and libraries more LLM-friendly? Create a single .txt file. 🤔 llms.txt proposed by @jeremyphoward, now adopted by @AnthropicAI proposes as a new standard to provide a structured, concise overview a single markdown file with key information to make the content more accessible and usable for AI agents. 🧠

TL;DR:
📄 Add a new standard file /llms.txt at website root, similar to robots.txt but specifically for LLMs
🎯 Use Markdown format for both human and LLM readability while maintaining strict structural requirements
🔄 Suggests appending .md to URLs to provide clean markdown versions of regular web pages
💡 Optional sections to handle context window limitations effectively
🛠️ created llms-txt to parse llms.txt for better use
🌐 Compatible with existing web standards like robots.txt and sitemap.xml

[Riley Goodside @goodside]

Everyone please do this for everything.
.txt is the universal interface

[Simon Willison @simonw]

Honestly, at this point If you give me a programming interview and don't let me use AI assistance you won't get a very realistic idea of what I'm actually capable of

[David Moscrop @David_Moscrop]

Any cash left over to buy Twitter?

[Leaning Technologies @leaningtech]

#WebVM 2.0 is Here!
🌟 Revamped UI
⚙️ #CheerpX Integration
🌐 Faster Performance
🖼️ Desktop Environment

Live Alpine Linux / Xorg / i3 demo: https://t.co/Wyvb1TXSGs

[David Humphrey @humphd]

Love Transformers.js https://t.co/mfrHHpwzzM