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yding··on Nobody pays for FOSS, we can force them to
Great proposal Laurie! It'd be great if YC would set up an Open Source endowment also, with say 0.5% of their companies' stock (voluntarily) endowed to open source software.
yding··on Refuse to let your doctor record you
When you evaluated the tools, what stood out between which ones were better or worse?
yding··on Citations on the Anthropic API
Makes sense. I wonder if it affects the model output performance (sans quotes), as I could imagine that splitting up the model output to add the quotes could cause it to lose attention on what it was saying.
yding··on Citations on the Anthropic API
Thanks Simon. I think this might solve one of the most common questions people ask me: how do I get Perplexity-like inline citations on my LLM output?

This looks like model fine tuning rather than after the fact pseudo justification. Do you agree?

yding··on A MiniGolf game for Palm OS
As someone who interned at Palm, love this so much!
yding··on ⓿ dependencies!
Depends on the language/standard library. For example in C if your library includes its own HTTP library that's probably not a plus.
yding··on Show HN: Mem0 – open-source Memory Layer for AI apps
Congrats Taranjeet and Deshraj!

So after using Mem0 a bit for a hackathon project, I have sort of two thoughts: 1. Memory is extremely useful and almost a requirement when it comes to building next level agents and Mem0 is probably the best designed/easiest way to get there. 2. I think the interface between structured and unstructured memory still needs some thinking.

What I mean by that is when I look at the memory feature of OpenAI it's obviously completely unstructured, free form text, and that makes sense when it's a general use product.

At the same time, when I'm thinking about more vertical specific use cases up until now, there are very specific things generally that we want to remember about our customers (for example, for advertising, age range, location, etc.) However, as the use of LLMs in chatbots increases, we may want to also remember less structured details.

So the killer app here would be something that can remember and synthesize both structured and unstructured information about the user in a way that's natural for a developer.

I think the graph integration is a step in this direction but still more on the unstructured side for now. Look forward to seeing how it develops.

yding··on My chatbot builder is over-engineered and I love it
The short answer is he works at Cohere. But longer answer is that the model probably doesn’t matter that much.
yding··on My chatbot builder is over-engineered and I love it
Looks great! thanks for sharing your architecture choices here.
yding··on Launch HN: Shaped (YC W22) – AI-Powered Recommendations and Search
Congrats on the launch!
yding··on Show HN: LLM-aided OCR – Correcting Tesseract OCR errors with LLMs
Very cool!
yding··on Better RAG Results with Reciprocal Rank Fusion and Hybrid Search
Absolutely makes sense!
yding··on Vercel completes $250M Series E round at $3.25B valuation
Congrats! Well deserved achievement by one of the best executing teams.
yding··on TimeGPT: Production Ready Time Series Foundation Model for Forecasting
Training a model with multiple billion floating point parameters on only 100 billion data points feels like a bad idea.
yding··on RAGFlow is an open-source RAG engine based on OCR and document parsing
This is really cool! Starred and look forward to seeing how this develops further!
yding··on Qdrant, the Vector Search Database, raised $28M in a Series A round
Congrats! Amazing milestone.
yding··on Opinions of Doron Zeilberger
Great to see. Not only a wonderful mathematician but also a wonderful human being.
yding··on Show HN: Edu AI, a company grown from my research (AI and pedagogy)
Very cool! Will check it out!
yding··on What's the difference between LangChain, llama indexand others like autollm?
What were the issues you ran into with running LlamaIndex?
yding··on Unveiling Ragna: An Open Source RAG-Based AI Orchestration Framework
Congrats on the launch!
yding··on Show HN: Demystifying Advanced RAG Pipelines
Great explanation!
yding··on Raspberry Pi 5: available now
I’m going to be a contrarian and say that I really appreciate that they went for a high performing/more expensive SoC this time.

When I had to buy a SBC last time I couldn’t bring myself to get the Pi 4 because it was missing core features (4K HDR decode) vs the alternatives. But I love the community around Raspberry Pi and it’ll definitely increase my options with this SBC.

yding··on Equation Group Tools
Should go without saying to run these only in the most secure sandbox you can find?
yding··on Build a chatbot with custom data sources, powered by LlamaIndex
The data questions are exactly the things we are working through right now!

I think Streamlit is a great way to get started quickly. Would love to talk more about your thoughts around data ingest for prod use cases. yiding@runllama.ai

yding··on Show HN: Epsilla – Open-source vector database with low query latency
Congrats on the launch!
yding··on Chunking 2M files a day for code search using syntax trees
Currently all of LlamaIndex's text splitters were/are Langchain compatible.
yding··on Chunking 2M files a day for code search using syntax trees
This is really cool and a much needed contribution to helping LLMs run better on large code bases.
yding··on Show HN: Litellm – Simple library to standardize OpenAI, Cohere, Azure LLM I/O
Very cool Ishaan!
yding··on Apple’s strict on App Store rules but gives WeChat a free pass (2020)
Here's a stat I heard a few years back: WeChat has over 50% time share in China. Meaning people in China are on WeChat more than all other apps on their phones combined.
yding··on What we know about LLMs
Good job Will!
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