Nicolay Gerold

factory_boy

factory_boy is a fixtures replacement based on thoughtbot's factory_bot.

As a fixtures replacement tool, it aims to replace static, hard to maintain fixtures with easy-to-use factories for complex objects.

Instead of building an exhaustive test setup with every possible combination of corner cases, factory_boy allows you to use objects... See more

When it comes to adding drag and drop to your application, you almost certainly need a third-party library. The most popular choice in the past has been React Beautiful DnD. As of 2024, it is no longer receiving regular updates.

Going forward, a solid replacement for drag and drop is to use DnD Kit . It’s lightweight, very flexible, and the... See more

Welcome to Extension

Extension is a plug-and-play, zero-config, cross-browser extension development tool for browser extensions with built-in support for TypeScript, WebAssembly, React, and modern JavaScript.

Designed with practicity and fast prototyping in mind, running a single terminal command is enough to start developing your extension and... See more

ETL

The part of the system I'm most proud of, and on which I spent the most effort, is the ETL process.

We had a series of shell scripts for each data source we ingested (there were many), which would pull the data and put it in an s3 bucket.

Then, early in the morning, a cron job would spin up an EC2 instance, which would pull in the latest ETL code... See more

Unlike some other popular algorithms, DiskANN is designed to keep memory usage to a minimum. This makes it a great match for use cases where Turso already excels at.

#Multitenancy

Turso allows for an easy implementation of a database-per-tenant pattern, where databases can be cheaply created on-demand. Keeping memory consumption at bay is critical... See more

One of the common themes you see is that LLMs are great when you are operating in the gray zone at the "edge" of your knowledge or confidence. For example, translating a program to C to speed it up. I can code C but I'm really rusty. I can't remember precise function names, what to #include, arguments etc. But LLMs are awesome at that. So it... See more

Startup Idea: Stonx for real estate (livestream of investors call with life chat) → you can capitalize on other‘s people expertise and questions and on the pre-curation of the service. This can be made for every category that capitalizes on visual information.

Startup creation: take a human desire and remove steps to fulfill it.

Startup Idea: :... See more

Cross-Encoder for Hallucination Detection

This model was trained using SentenceTransformers Cross-Encoder class.

The model outputs a probabilitity from 0 to 1, 0 being a hallucination and 1 being factually consistent.

The predictions can be thresholded at 0.5 to predict whether a document is consistent with its source.

Training Data

This model is... See more

We are excited to release the first version of our multimodal assistant Yasa-1, a language assistant with visual and auditory sensors that can take actions via code execution.

We trained Yasa-1 from scratch, including pretraining base models from ground zero, aligning them, as well as heavily optimizing both our training and serving infrastructure.... See more