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mikeve

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mikeve··on Allbirds announces pivot from shoes to AI, stock explodes 175%
This appears to be almost like a SPAC. Allbirds had already sold it's IP and other assets, now they raised new money and are continuing under a different name but they're still a publicly traded company.

So it's not really shoe retailer pivots to AI but a shoe retailer selling all assets and forming a new company but uses the previous public stock listing.

mikeve··on GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability
Just to add a little bit of nuance to this not because I'm trying to defend GitHub, they definitely need to up their reliability, but the 90% uptime figure represents every single service that GitHub offers being online 90% of the time. You don't need every single service to be online in order to use GitHub. For example, I don't use Copilot myself and it's seen a 96.47% uptime, the worst of the services which are tracked.
mikeve··on I made a downdetector for downdetector's downdetector's downdetector
This downdetector seems to be down. We might need another downdetector.
mikeve··on Show HN: PageIndex – Vectorless RAG
Not sure if I fully understand it, but this seems highly inefficient?

Instead of using embeddings which are easy to make a cheap to compare, you use summarized sections of documents and process them with an LLM? LLM's are slower and more expensive to run.

mikeve··on Yt-transcriber – Give a YouTube URL and get a transcription
Interesting project! I've been working on a project in this space myself (WaveMemo)

I must say, speaker diarization is surprisingly tricky to do. The most common approach seems to be to use pyannote, but the quality is not amazing...

mikeve··on Context Rot: How increasing input tokens impacts LLM performance
I've experienced this as well. I'm working on a project for which I wanted to search through transcripts of a video. This is often a very long text. I figured since models like the GPT 4.1 series have very large context windows RAG was not needed but I definitely notice some strange issues, especially on the smaller models. Things like not answering the question that was asked but returning a generic summary of the content.
mikeve··on Exploiting the IKKO Activebuds “AI powered” earbuds (2024)
I love how run DOOM is listed first, over the possibility of customer data being stolen.