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dar8919

188 karma · joined August 17, 2013

akhilravidas.com

CTO, Flyflow (YC S24)

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dar8919··on GPT 4.5 level for 1% of the price
https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-ocr , recent release. Its been a step function improvement for my pipelines
dar8919··on OpenAI Sales Agent Demo
Curious why open source? At the end of the day, lead gen is mostly about data curation. You’re either paying for access to curated feeds or spending time/money building your own pipeline.
dar8919··on A powerful tool for converting speech into text
Can you share more about how it compares with other popular tools in this space? Very hard to tell from your homepage
dar8919··on Snowflake Launches Text-Embedding Model for Retrieval Use Cases
Wow, shows very good performance on my wikipedia dataset. Incredible that companies are open sourcing so much good stuff. Hope this trend continues.
dar8919··on When Will the GenAI Bubble Burst?
Thanks for the example and that sounds really solid cost savings and definitely agree with the trend that it is here to stay.

For invoice parsing (various formats), are you just using GPT4V? When GPT4V initially came out, i benchmarked it against an out of the box invoice parser from Google Cloud (https://cloud.google.com/document-ai) on 16 documents and it was much better accuracy wise. For ex: i'd get results parsing 10,100 as 101100 (no comma).

Curious if you saw problems like this in your pipeline or if its gotten much better since?

dar8919··on Show HN: Appendable – Index JSONL data and query via CDN
Love it!
dar8919··on How do you learn to create captivating 3D animation with AI?
Hi HN! I recently came across an really impressive 3D animation on Sustainable Horizons website: https://sustainablehorizons.ai/ (I have no affiliation)

The level of detail is so good. Website claims using Generative AI (and three.js).

I was curious if anyone had pointers on how something a AI-powered 3D animation authoring workflow would look like. Any guidance or pointers would be greatly appreciated!

dar8919··on Facebook was down
Yup, looks down again =/
dar8919··on Facebook was down
Back up now
dar8919··on Ask HN: How do you find your next book?
Both.

When it comes to technology, I find books to be a secondary citizen. If I look at things I know and use in my day job. Things like stack overflow, blog posts and reading man pages have been my primary knowledge sources.

But off late, I've been reading books and mostly enjoying the titles I've read. But the biggest problem for me is finding my next book.

Amazon mostly recommends titles very closely related to what I've purchased, and I haven't had much success with goodreads lists. So I'm curious how HN users find their next book.

dar8919··on Ask HN: FU Money: What is your number?
North of 20M $
dar8919··on Ask HN: What do you use to organize your knowledge?
Evernote
dar8919··on Linux file write patterns: So you want to write to a file fast
The second code snippet looks wrong,

write(out, buf, (r - w)) should be write(out, buf + w, r - w)

dar8919··on Poll: what's your primary editor/IDE?
Vim
dar8919··on Ask HN: Who are the 100 people who most changed the world?
Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia