@timothyvh

Always building. Always learning. Manufacturing, data science, and ML.

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Joined January 2011
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Using @firecrawl for a client's deep research agent has been amazing. I kept thinking, "I should hook this into Claude Code." Finally did it weeks later via MCP for my own research tasks. Why didn’t I do this sooner? Claude Code WebFetch is trash in comparison.
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I taught Claude Code to make beautiful @matplotlib charts! I Built an opinionated skill for publication-quality figures, in a style that I like. It's a work in progress and I hope others will contribute. github link below 👇
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It was fun to build, and the process of automating its development taught me a lot. 📝 tvhahn.com/posts/building-a-… 💻 github.com/tvhahn/matplotlib…

I Taught Claude to Make Beautiful Charts. Then It Forgot How.

How I built a Claude Code skill for publication-quality matplotlib charts over 50 iterations — and what happened when I automated its improvement.

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Rockin' at @pycascades! Amazing people and great talks!
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Amazing flight last night with @FlairAirlines. Good service and the view was breathtaking!
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Another view of the northern lights. Hard to appreciate their beauty in a picture...
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I star my own repos. 💫🚀
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This is the way. For us ML plebs, who don't have FANG sized budgets, we have to dig up old ideas and innovate on them. Good strategy though. Kinda like this: xitter.cf/david_perell/status/13…
David Perell
@david_perell23 Oct 2020
Nintendo has a product-development philosophy called "Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology." It led to the Game Boy, the 20th century's most successful game console. Basically, you can innovate with old and cheap technologies instead of obsessing over the cutting edge.
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Yes! So many good thoughts on ML engineering in this post. Thanks for sharing @sh_reya shreya-shankar.com/phd-year-…
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If it's Turing complete, they will come. I'm compiling a list of unique examples of compute, built on sometimes *interesting* systems. Art for art's sake - intrepid creators, I salute thee! h/t @alfcnz for inspiring this. More examples welcome. 🧵 👇
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A 3D animated roller coaster in Excel. 🤔 youtu.be/IrVA1BBHFHw

Roller Coaster - bizarre chart in Excel

A 3D animated roller coaster in Excel... DOWNLOAD A RECENTLY UPDA...

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I got the above from a HN link: news.ycombinator.com/item?id… @tylermorganwall has also built a roller coaster, but in R - aka "DataCoaster". Neat! xitter.cf/tylermorganwall/status…
Tyler Morgan-Wall@tylermorganwall9 May 2022
Entire #RStats rollercoaster created by flying around a scene interactively using #rayrender's new interactive renderer! (but watch your head!)
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"An article about computational science [. . .] is merely advertising of the scholarship. The actual scholarship is the complete software development environment and the complete set of instructions which generated the figures." - Jon Claerbout
Your kid making money from their minecraft server. Or them fooling around building websites. Kids have so much free time...👇🤯
Alec Resnick
@aresnick15 Dec 2019
Replying to @aresnick @vgr
48. One of the most exciting shifts now possible (given the nature of remote knowledge work) is the economic emancipation of youth aged 14–18. Small steps toward this represent radical threats for traditional educational establishments.
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Randomness. Embrace it and improve your ideation process! It's a well of inspiration that won't run dry. Here are five "random" strategies to help you come up with interesting ideas -- whatever field you're in. #creativity #ideation #inspiration 🧵👇:
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19/ Google "oblique strategies" and you'll find a variety of sites with the cards. Here's one: stoney.sb.org/eno/oblique.ht… Use them to get out of your creative ruts!
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20/ These are 5 strategies use "randomness" to improve your ideation process. Do you have other "random" ideation tricks? Feel free to read the long form article on my website too. Let serendipity be your guide! tvhahn.com/posts/finding-ins…

Finding Inspiration in Random Ways

A wellspring of ideas

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