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Dan Turkel @daturkel.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

@simonwillison.net I vibed a new llm plugin for resuming, showing, or exporting recent convos from an interactive picker. here's `llm convos --search "asyncio" --mode preview`. a few rough edges left to polish but this is very helpful for my personal workflows

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Dan Turkel @daturkel.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

@simonwillison.net I built a very similar tool to your claude code paste cleaner for dealing with command outputs with lots of line breaks and `\` in them. This seems like a common enough annoyance that it should be fixed in claude code itself gist.github.com/daturkel/1fd...

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Dan Turkel @daturkel.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I wrote about AI assistants, disposable spies, rental humans, and increasingly-autonomous drones. danturkel.com/2026/02/11/a...

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Who’s the agent now?

An inanimate agent is defined by its independence while a human agent is defined by its service of another.

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Dan Turkel @daturkel.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

I used to play Towers of Hanoi on my TI-84 in class (left) and I got incredibly good at doing it from muscle memory. With Claude Code, I had a browser version working in under 10 minutes, with another 30 spent adding local high scores and other cosmetic improvements (right).

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Dan Turkel @daturkel.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

I'm just imagining the Streetsblog writers learning about the new Epstein files release and immediately scouring it for references to bike lanes, unshoveled sidewalks, placard abuse...

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Dan Turkel @daturkel.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

@simonwillison.net Is there a way in llm to have a template pass $input to a fragment loader? E.g. if I want a url summarizer, I want llm to load the input url as a fragment and pass that as context. Just setting $input as a fragment doesn't work.

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Dan Turkel @daturkel.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

@simonwillison.net I'm working on rag tool for llms own embeddings db. It works, though I've had trouble getting good results out of it (it really doesn't work well with symbex --nl output; it works ok with docs). Curious what you think github.com/daturkel/llm... gist.github.com/daturkel/b27...

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Dan Turkel @daturkel.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

@simonwillison.net I made an llm fragment plugin to use a library (Trafilatura) to locally convert a site to markdown rather than using the Jina API. The experience was super easy and fun. Is it possible to pass a fragment into a chat though? github.com/daturkel/llm...

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GitHub - daturkel/llm-fragments-site-text: Run URLs through Trafilatura to get plaintext

Run URLs through Trafilatura to get plaintext. Contribute to daturkel/llm-fragments-site-text development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Dan Turkel @daturkel.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Loved this post from Dillon Davis at Airbnb on how they evolved their location retrieval system from heuristics to a NN-powered bandit. Somehow I'd never heard of Monte Carlo dropout, but it looks like a great way to get uncertainty estimates from NNs (eg for bandits). medium.com/airbnb-engin...

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Transforming Location Retrieval at Airbnb: A Journey from Heuristics to Reinforcement Learning

How Airbnb leverages machine learning and reinforcement learning techniques to solve a unique information retrieval task in order to…

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Dan Turkel @daturkel.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

I thought Succession was based on the Murdochs but it turns out that the Murdochs are based on Succession.

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Dan Turkel @daturkel.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Every branch that involves debugging a Github Action has 10-50 commits at the end with messages that become increasingly unhinged. - add github action for CI - fix bug in github action - testing - still testing - dear god why

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Dan Turkel @daturkel.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I'm curious about this site, but a bit confused why all my suggested follows appear to be Xbox employees...

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