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So you don’t have to look around: https://github.com/deathbyknowledge/gsv and gsv.space

For the last year, I’ve been thinking about the trends in human computer interfaces and what the next big step is. And I don’t mean how we went from CLIs to GUIs.

Interfaces sort of went like this:

1. The computer was as big as your living room. The interface was a terminal connected to it, single use.
2. Machine and software get better, now multiple terminals using the same big computer are available.
3. Hardware gets small enough that you can have a computer at home. This begins personal computing and it fits on your office desk.
4. Fast forward twenty years or so, you have a pocket-sized computer that is a digital extension of yourself.
5. Now, they got so small, that a lot of computers moved to ’the cloud’.

Even as this happened, you didn’t stick with a single device. It’s not like you have a phone or a laptop. Your digital life is fragmented between devices that serve different purposes.

TL;DR

I bring you:

• Sandboxing environment to train shell agents: repo
• A 14k shell task dataset for training on HF
• Synthetic data generation pipeline to generate customizable task datasets
• Batteries-included script to run RL with the above and your model of choice

Intro

Earlier this year I started messing more with “agents”, so much more that it ended up changing what I do at work (cool).

This Christmas I was thinking on revisiting a Rust port of croc I wrote some years ago to teach myself the language but ended up doing something different.

I had just been introduced to Cloudflare’s Durable Objects and thought of porting the port and check how hard it would be to build the same thing on the Cloudflare stack.

It proved to be incredibly educational and quite fun so I ended up using it in an introductory talk for the stack.

Mathematics textbooks will sometimes explain structures and concepts in terms of formulas and how to compute them, instead of an explanation that aims to yield intuitive understanding. Especially, since they do require a solid foundation.

I suggest any reader that finds themselves aware of this situation, always stop and ponder on each subject to really grasp what it means. Feel free to access other resources to see the matter from different perspectives.