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zacmps··on Docs – Open source alternative to Notion or Outline
People would do the same if curl was publicly funded, that doesn't mean it would be a bad idea.
zacmps··on Ingesting PDFs and why Gemini 2.0 changes everything
It's not something I've needed to deal with personally.

We have run into added content filters in Azure OpenAI on a different application, but we just put in a request to tune them down for us.

zacmps··on Ingesting PDFs and why Gemini 2.0 changes everything
I've found the highest accuracy solution is to OCR with one of the dedicated models then feed that text and the original image into an LLM with a prompt like:

"Correct errors in this OCR transcription".

zacmps··on Romanian court annuls result of presidential election first round
In some countries (NZ for example) this does not exempt you from reporting requirements unless your total spend falls under NZD$15,700.
zacmps··on Show HN: Book and change flights with one email
For me the demo pulled up flights, but in USD, I'd need it to be localised to be useful.

Airlines also tend to present different prices for different locations/currencies so I doubt this would be as simple as a UI change (though that would still go a long way!).

zacmps··on Rust's Sneaky Deadlock With `if let` Blocks
You can also use a mutex that doesn't own data in Rust if you need to.
zacmps··on Facebook building subsea cable that will encompass the world
Correct
zacmps··on How fast is quantum entanglement? Scientists investigate it at attosecond scale
Sight correction, at least in my understanding (physics major but only undergrad) this explicitly isn't communication.

It's not possible to use entanglement to transmit information faster than light, even though the entanglement itself could be simultaneous.

zacmps··on It is hard to recommend Google Cloud
It's been brought up elsewhere in the thread but GCP deleting an entire tenant's account rules them out entirely from any serious business IMO.
zacmps··on Amazon's exabyte-scale migration from Apache Spark to Ray on EC2
Super cool to see you here.

I've also looked at ray for running data pipelines before (at much much smaller scales) for the reasons you suggest (unstructured data, mixed CPU/GPU compute).

One thing I've wanted is an incremental computation framework (i.e., salsa [1]) built on ray so that I can write jobs that transparently reuse intermediate results from an object store if their dependents haven't changed.

Do you know if anyone has thought of building something like this?

[1] https://github.com/salsa-rs/salsa

zacmps··on What would it take to recreate Bell Labs?
Personally I think chemistry is going to trail a long way behind biology for a while (in terms of ML solutions). The data, supporting libraries, and funding doesn't seem to be on the same level.
zacmps··on Researchers: Weak Security Defaults Enabled Squarespace Domains Hijacks
One of the (many) problems with the market is that consumers have imperfect information. In this case specifically it's almost never possible to have an accurate picture of a company's security in advance of a mistake like this one.
zacmps··on AI's $600B Question
I'm sure it's no where near good enough yet, but a legal model getting the answer right 83% of the time is still quite impressive imo.
zacmps··on The Delusion of Advanced Plastic Recycling
Syngas can also be converted to other products through gas fermentation.
zacmps··on Show HN: ChatGPT UI for rabbit holes
Seconding this, I'd love to add an interface like this to a RAG setup.
zacmps··on Llama 3-V: Matching GPT4-V with a 100x smaller model and 500 dollars
Nope, I tried it for graph and diagram understanding and it wasn't good enough. Planning to repeat the evaluation with 4o when I have time.
zacmps··on The problem with new URL(), and how URL.parse() fixes that
They might have meant a type like `Result<T,E>`
zacmps··on "Real" anonymous functions for Python
What?

Anonymous functions are amazing for: * Iterators (map, reduce, filter) * Callbacks (ui actions) * Threads/async tasks

The reason I don't name them isn't because I can't think of a name, it's because: * There's no point, they'll only be referred to once * Introducing a separate function block breaks the flow of the code and makes it harder to read (especially for iterators!)

zacmps··on Regex character "$" doesn't mean "end-of-string"
It might not be obvious when you hit that point, bad regexes can be subtle, just see that old cloudflare postmortem.
zacmps··on Pg_hint_plan: Force PostgreSQL to execute query plans the way you want
On an SSD I'd drop random to 1-1.2.
zacmps··on Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu
It absolutely makes sense viewed through the lens of early 2000s antitrust cases (esp. those against Microsoft).

The landscape has obviously changed since, but not for any good reason in my opinion.

zacmps··on The killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is using video as an input
Ah true, I guess it's still 258 positions by 100,000 possible tokens though.
zacmps··on The killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is using video as an input
Remember, if it's using a similar tokeniser to GPT-4 (cl100k_base iirc), each token has a dimension of ~100,000.

So 258x100,000 is a space of 25,800,000 floats, using f16 (a total guess) that's 51.6kB, probably enough to represent the image at ok quality with JPG.

zacmps··on Firefly III: A free and open source personal finance manager
I think the same thing happened to 'actual.'
zacmps··on Our next-generation model: Gemini 1.5
> The author (the human learner) has some formal experience in linguistics and has studied a variety of languages both formally and informally, though no Austronesian or Papuan languages

From the language benchmark (parentheses mine).

zacmps··on Vanna.ai: Chat with your SQL database
I've been using 'build' as in, 'build a dataset'. I think it gets the same idea across without being as easy to confuse with fine-tuning.
zacmps··on First look at Microsoft 365 Copilot
It's possible to build RAG pipelines that support answering complex questions over multiple documents, and I don't think I would say the whole architecture needs to change.

Doing it fast is another story, LLMs are pretty high latency at the moment.

zacmps··on In the gut's 'second brain,' key agents of health emerge
LLMs also have huge potential for helping us understand genetics, see Facebook's ESM for example.
zacmps··on SEC charges Kraken for operating as an unregistered securities exchange
Because it causes preventable harm.
zacmps··on Uber paid 58 Australians $1350 to have One Less Car
If they've done any research at all they almost certainly do know more.

I also live in NZ, did you read the CBA report on our feebate scheme a while back?

It concluded the policy had a net economic benefit due to correcting consumer's failing to take into account the cost of fuel in making ICE/hybrid/PEV purchasing decisions.

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