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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • This looks exciting. I hope the transition goes well.

    I would say to get automated backups running on the first few before you do them all. Thats a luxury we get “for free” with cloud services.

    Note on firefly iii. I use it because I’ve been using it, but after using it for 4ish years, I dont really recommend it. The way I use it anyway, I think inserting data could be easier (I do it manually on purpose) and the graphs/visualizations I also wish were better. My experience with search functionality is also sub par. I would look at other alternatives as well, but I think its still better than not tracking finances at all. But I wonder if using a database client to insert data and python scripts or grafana to analyze the data would be better for me…YMMV

    Good luck!


  • I replaced my tabbyml code assistant this week with ollama+continue.dev. But I’m having issues with speed. I think this is because I switched from code qwen 2.5B (ish) to Deepeek Coder 9B (ish) and I think I’m pushing the limits of my GPU. Maybe I’ll spend today sorting out which models I want to use and which computers I want to use them on so I dont run into this issue (I’ve got ollama on 2 computers with 3 GPUs shared between them, for a total of 24GB VRAM)

















  • Its a paradigm shift from pandas. In polars, you define a pipeline, or a set of instructions, to perform on a dataframe, and only execute them all at once at the end of your transformation. In other words, its lazy. Pandas is eager, which every part of the transformation happens sequentially and in isolation. Polars also has an eager API, but you likely want to use the lazy API in a production script.

    Because its lazy, Polars performs query optimization, like a database does with a SQL query. At the end of the day, if you’re using polars for data engineering or in a pipeline, it’ll likely work much faster and more memory efficient. Polars also executes operations in parallel, as well.