alan blount

🤙Geek/Nerd/Odd, Artist+Communicator, Muppet+Robot+Dad.
❤️Elixir, React, Python, Devops/Docker/Linux, Node, Meteor
🏫Go, Dart/Flutter
👴PHP, HTML

[alan blount @zeroasterisk]

@glitch Trust yourself. Everything is hard when you first learn it... But like sitting, standing, crawling, toddling, walking, running, skipping, and interpretive dance... You build yourself via practice and persistence, layer by layer, until the basics are natural and you too can dance.

[Santiago @svpino]

Python, MCP, A2A, and a whole lot about how to build multi-agent systems.

This goes well beyond building a single agent: it focuses on how multiple agents can collaborate towards a goal.

Best part:

The book will show you how to build everything from scratch. You start with a simple agent and then add complexity as the book progresses.

Amazon link: https://t.co/GIIiIOKxgw

[Google Cloud Tech @GoogleCloudTech]

https://t.co/Nhzbmwl85W

[alan blount @zeroasterisk]

@rauchg hey @rauchg we should talk about https://t.co/JosipgfySD and reconciliation instead of fragmentation -- DM me or LinkedIn, or email me or whatever

[alan blount @zeroasterisk]

State of American Government from Bernie https://t.co/6xyiCRMhaE @ 20min, very understandable and well argued.

I'd welcome one comparable ~20 min session from someone from the pro-trump to explain their points of view, especially if it includes some facts. Anyone?

[alan blount @zeroasterisk]

@shanselman There are hundreds of options, many of them easy. Few are going to deliver high quality results, very few are going to do so for a specialized domain like healthcare without a fair bit of domain alignment. Vertex AI Search is a good & easy starting point, especially at scale.

[alan blount @zeroasterisk]

@markopolojarvi @rauchg @lgrammel You're not wrong. I'd argue that for a "real" application, I don't know if I would trust the internet as a source of information anyway, but maybe I'm salty.

Demos:
https://t.co/YJwoiIZUUj

Alternative approach:
https://t.co/6i8dqzMHtk

[alan blount @zeroasterisk]

@skirano I've been dreaming of controlling cypress.js with (a) screencapture videos and (b) describing what I want to have happen and building a cypress spec.

Is that along the lines of what you're talking about?

[Shishir Patil @shishirpatil_]

📢Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard Update: Discover the enhanced performance and cost-efficiency of @GoogleDeepMind's Gemini-1.5-pro and Gemini-1.5-flash, alongside @OpenAI's new gpt-4o models ⚡️Gemini sets a new benchmark in function-calling 🏆and improves its capabilities in relevance detection - ability to say NO! Parallel-multiple function calls continue to be elusive 👀
Play around: https://t.co/hcwjnTajFp

[alan blount @zeroasterisk]

@savant @Apple Sneaky "ello"... I didn't notice that easter egg... I'll ask

[alan blount @zeroasterisk]

After much family harassment, I feel vindicated (at least a little) by this campaign from Google. See, it's not _my_ phone that's the problem!

@Apple, stop breaking my texting experience. #GetTheMessage
https://t.co/4EmSJP2jX5

[alan blount @zeroasterisk]

@laurenthehough I will not spill the beans

[alan blount @zeroasterisk]

@garrett_codes Reasonable reason... But have you tried elixir... :)

[alan blount @zeroasterisk]

@wesbos "Use Google Calendar appointment slots - Computer - Google Calendar Help" https://t.co/BS9CUWGbSi

We use these all the time, for office hours or whatever. Convenient and simple.

[alan blount @zeroasterisk]

@boyney123 @apievangelist Nice, thanks for the link/info. I'm in the market for generalizable graph visualization, but with a goal of visualizing a workflow, or UX flow, or API flow... Complex graph as a data structure for journey, and a means of visualizing that journey/graph.

[alan blount @zeroasterisk]

@apievangelist you mentioned a project for consuming asyncapi spec and generating a graph, perhaps via d3. I've been thinking about something like that for a while and would love to see what has already been done. Can you please send me a link? I cannot find it.

[alan blount @zeroasterisk]

@b0rk Like so many others, why a new container on every request?

It seems like you have a hammer and are trying to construct a road... The hammer is good for some things, but not all.

I assume you have a reason for these constraints... Address those reasons.

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

My favorite paper for reflecting on before the New Year asks the key question: how can we be happier?

The world's top happiness scholars ranked the best strategies for individual & societal happiness, here are results listed by feasibility & effectiveness https://t.co/DPTuf2XrZD

[alan blount @zeroasterisk]

Oliver's first volleyball tournament was on Saturday, he played well, had all the fun, and won. @ Prime Volleyball Academy https://t.co/vTki8Gz66I

[alan blount @zeroasterisk]

Great family hike to lost lake, on Saturday. I'll be going back there for sure. @ Hessie Trailhead https://t.co/i3GAhvUCP6