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"Building Connections: A Positive Conversation with Matt"

Jan 3, 2024 - 2:11pmSummary: The speaker had a positive conversation with Matt, finding their immediate connection and his thoughtful questions to be very enjoyable. Matt allowed the speaker plenty of time to express themselves and showed interest in their work, which the speaker found encouraging. The speaker expressed excitement at the possibility of sharing their work with others and the potential for creating a pipeline library. They mentioned potential improvements to the pipeline system and expressed eagerness to have further discussions with Matt in the future.

Transcript: I just got off the phone with Matt, and it was a really nice conversation. Just immediately connected. He asked really good questions, I really appreciate that. He gave me a lot of time to speak, and that was really nice. I want to ask him more questions next time. He's just really excellent at it, and got me going. And it seemed like whatever I was talking about with my pipeline seems to resonate with him in terms of experimental testbed. And that is really cool to hear that he's like, let me know how it's going, and yeah, I will. And I'm excited to even hear that feedback of like, yeah, someone else might want to use this, and like, what are the right interfaces, and I'm happy to give it to someone and show them how to use it and how to deploy it. And maybe that's something that I need to, you know, think about more seriously of like, here's how you spin one of these up for yourself. Maybe here's a Docker instance of it, let's see, I don't know. But that might be something worthwhile to do, and yeah. Because like, so far, it's like remarkably stable, too. Not that crazy of a thing. But yeah. Maybe that's even the pitch. It's like, this is a testbed right now, and it's built by developers for developers to figure out what are the right ways to build their AI application. It's not like, because it's not deterministic, like, you can only know so much about your problem until you actually do it. And making experimentation really fast. So yeah, thinking about that, and probably how a module system works, like, more seriously. How do you add steps to the pipeline? How do you expose kind of the output type very easily for someone to be able to modify, or something? Yeah, maybe putting out a pipeline library, that's really simple. I think earlier I had mentioned some improvements to the pipeline system, and I believe it was probably that the output just needs to be in a format that's going to be appended to the overall object in some way. And figuring out the best way to do that. And then, yeah. I mean, I need to think about it more. But it was a really great conversation. I really appreciated everything about it. And I'm excited to talk with him again, probably in a couple weeks, probably in two weeks, and see where things are. Again, I would love to be able to, say, chat with him in two weeks, and get a reminder and a text message. About two weeks. I don't want to set a reminder. So maybe that's a little thing that I'll build in, or something. We'll see. I would like to keep it small and modular. And that is going to start going into not very small and modular, but an opinionated thing. So we'll see. Like, that's stepping outside of testbed. But maybe it's something to implement, actually. So yeah, really, really, really nice talking to Matt.

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