Ailton

@james_ailton

PhD in Information Systems. Building AI agents, automations & data platforms. Sharing what works and what breaks || WYSIWYG

Braga, Portugal

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@james_ailton
Aug 26, 2022
32 Successful habits we should have in our life Thread 🧵 1/ Have a "Can Do" attitude 2/ Believe that "I will figure it out" 3/ Focus on opportunity 4/ Love challenges 5/ Seek to solve problems 6/ Persist until successful 7/ Take risk 8/ Be unreasonable Part 1
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@james_ailton
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Turning a research prototype into software other people can use 🧵 1/ Get it out of the notebook. Notebooks are great for exploring and terrible for running twice the same way. Move the logic into functions and keep the notebook as a demo.
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@james_ailton
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Agent tip test what happens when a tool breaks. Test time out, return a 500, return an empty list. A good agent says "I couldn't get X" and stops or asks. A bad one carries on and fills the gap with something plausible. Only find out which one you have by breaking it on purpose.
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@james_ailton
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Why Young People Are Sleeping in Squares to Ask for a Home - thread🧵 1/ Last weekend police cleared ~200 housing-protest tents in Lisbon and Porto: 33 injured and 31 detained (PSP's revised count). Here's the data behind the anger 👇
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@james_ailton
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Postgres tip: if most queries only touch a small slice of a table (pending jobs, unread items, active users), use a partial index. CREATE INDEX ... WHERE status = 'pending'. It's a fraction of the size, stays in memory, and doesn't slow down writes to rows it ignores.

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