Hrishi Olickel
About me
Announcing Southbridge
Something worth building (1.3 weeks ago)
2024: A monomyth
Nice little narrative, beginning middle and end? (2.0 weeks ago)
The rich man's guide to RAG
You don't need to read this but I wanted to write it (2.9 months ago)
A guide to hiring in AI
Everything I've learned (4.9 months ago)
Workhorse models and racehorse models
A framework for testing new llms on release without being overwhelmed (5.3 months ago)
Real results from a month of running an AI network
Analytics from Rakis Stability Test 1 (5.9 months ago)
Building a Rakis
Repeatable inference network with only browsers for nodes (6.9 months ago)
Better RAG 3: The text is your friend
Use the whole brain, luke (10.0 months ago)
Better RAG 2: Single-shot is not good enough
How to 'walk' to better answers (10.1 months ago)
Running Kuzco in Docker and WSL2
PSA and quickstart (10.1 months ago)
Better RAG 1: Basics
Getting to retrieval-augmented research, a series of everything I've learned building RAG pipelines (10.1 months ago)
How will matrix multiplication kill my company?
An opinionated exploration of defensibility with modern AI (11.3 months ago)
2023: Showing up and growing backwards
This was some trip around the sun (1.1 years ago)
Compiling language models for use on the browser
How to use MLC-LLM to run models on WebGPU (1.2 years ago)
Making writing easier with AI
What my pipeline looks like (1.2 years ago)
The biggest problem in shipping is plain English
Why large language models are the missing piece to digitization (1.2 years ago)
What do we make that people want?
Is it you? Is it the product? (1.3 years ago)
Everything I'll forget about prompting LLMs
A definitive guide to my future self (1.4 years ago)
Inherited duct tape is what slows our systems down
Why software slows faster than computers speed up (1.5 years ago)
Object-Oriented Large Language Modelling
Tuning state-of-the-art language models for peak reliability (1.8 years ago)
Solving carpal tunnel with Whisper, GPT-4 and llama.cpp
Speech-to-text with LLMs in the loop (1.8 years ago)
Good-enough-compression for shipping routes
Iteratively reducing some large files for fun and necessity (1.8 years ago)
Learning to unyieldingly compromise
Developing end-to-end encryption at Greywing (1.8 years ago)
2022 Year In Review
Things gone past in 2022, and looking forward to twenty three. (2.0 years ago)
Exercising doing nothing at all
Trying to add some whitespace to my life (2.0 years ago)
What it took to do a crew change in a single click
And why corrective workflows might be the future of AI-based automation (2.1 years ago)
Product Lifecycle Lifecycle at Greywing
How product management evolves around teams, money and communication barriers (2.2 years ago)
Telegraph your movies and your products
Surprises are good, but exhausting. Be predictable, be stable. (2.2 years ago)
Why there aren't many software firms in shipping
An examination of zero to one problems in maritime tech (2.3 years ago)
Algorithms are bad for the aspirational self
Interactions that define who we are and who we want to be (2.5 years ago)
A recommendation engine for blog posts
Giving us some direction on where to go when we finish (3.0 years ago)
Losing products to button syndrome
Fighting a pandemic in the world of software (3.0 years ago)
What a year it has been
What I'd like to learn in 2022, and what 2021 has taught me. (3.0 years ago)
Schema on write is better to live by
Thoughts on a decade of personal knowledge management (3.4 years ago)
Rent, Deposits, and the failure of the repeated game
How to preserve the tail end of a relationship (3.4 years ago)
Provenance
How I'm losing mine, and why we shouldn't be injecting it into ourselves (3.9 years ago)
The two innovations of Hashmasks
Understanding new forms of digital art and the possibilities (3.9 years ago)
Facebook, please stop killing good products
That's it, that's the description (4.0 years ago)
What I learned in 2020
Personal and professional reflections (4.0 years ago)
Why I still can't stop using Chrome
Knowing where UX is important (4.1 years ago)
Benchmarking battery life on an Ubuntu machine
Harder than it should be, but easier with a little help (4.1 years ago)
Subqueries and CTEs: an example of query optimization in Postgres
Optimization isn't always premature (4.3 years ago)
Moving out of MacOS: Making Linux habitable
It's better with a little TLC (4.4 years ago)
Serving complex geospatial queries in real-time
Different hammers for different nails, or a love letter to postgres (4.5 years ago)
Flow Energy and Residual Energy
(4.5 years ago)
A million imprisoned: Getting stranded seafarers home
A problem of data and lives (4.6 years ago)
Home cooked apps
Who do we build for? (4.9 years ago)
Raising seed capital in Singapore: A postmortem
Some things about a less well-known market (5.0 years ago)
Macgyvering a li-ion charger
Terribly useful life skill, now in picture book form (5.1 years ago)
Sharding the Interval Queue: Implementation
Promises, lists and setTimeout woes (5.1 years ago)
Sharding the interval queue: Theory
Concepts, failed ideas and the final structure (5.1 years ago)
Adding requeuing to Async Interval Queue
Working with promises (5.1 years ago)
Async Interval Queue
A timed queue for javascript Promises (5.1 years ago)
Engineering at Greywing: Taming Complexity
Connecting verticals through data (5.3 years ago)
Intentions and Program Mind-Meld Frustrations
Why some ecosystems stick and others don't (5.4 years ago)
We are moving to Go
Sorry for ranting I'm getting older (5.6 years ago)
Juventus: Glucose worries in Chiang Mai and the beginning of the biggest brownie point scheme ever
(5.9 years ago)
Debugging Node.js in Production: Anatomy of a bug hunt
A glorious experience in desperation (6.0 years ago)
Beauty to an Artificial Intelligence
This ended up being way too long as a post (6.0 years ago)
Dead Money: The problem at the heart of crypto
Something that isn't talked about enough (6.4 years ago)
Converse: An easy sentiment analysis library for Messenger
Sometimes borrowing ideas from other fields is the best way to build (6.5 years ago)
Development across platforms with Docker
Making things easier and harder (7.0 years ago)
Building an Arc Reactor
Not really, just a list of mistakes (7.2 years ago)
Investing in Crypto: A Personal Guide
A few resources and comments (7.2 years ago)
Goosebumps: Realizing Extrasensory Perception
Working towards improving the limits of human perception (7.3 years ago)
Talk: Singularity and The Blockchain
A shallow dive into blockchain technology and what it means for the singularity of tomorrow (7.3 years ago)
Update on Oyente
Old Project, New team (7.4 years ago)
Optimizing Neural Nets in Python from Scratch
Part 1 - Looking at CPU Speedup (8.8 years ago)
Automating Git Commits
Quick look at the why and the how (8.9 years ago)
Decapitating Raspberry Pis with nomohead
Or why it shouldn't be so hard to do this (8.9 years ago)
Ride-sharing on the Blockchain
Exploring the Concept of ride-sharing on the Ethereum Blockchain (9.0 years ago)
Winter '15 Trip Logs
Across India on a motorbike (9.1 years ago)
Tracking Word Documents with Git
Version controlling meaningful blobs (9.2 years ago)
An IoT system for construction worker safety
Anatomy of a hackathon (9.3 years ago)
Implementing a Lucas-Kanade tracker from scratch
Understanding the basics of Optical Flow and XCode (9.3 years ago)
About me
A quick brief (31.1 years ago)
