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edit: Some of this language was a tad harsh and cynical. Apologies, was in a bit of a mood. I'll leave it as-is for posterity. > We have experimented with this
by throwaway314155 2y ago
edit: Some of this language was a tad harsh and cynical. Apologies, was in a bit of a mood. I'll leave it as-is for posterity.
> We have experimented with this and are releasing an API that you can explore to see if this chunking strategy works for you.
Call me when you release literally any details at all. Even better - call when you've open sourced your code.
It's kind of hard to just take your word for it when it comes to a alleged superior method. Demo's are interesting but again, I don't really trust that even those results do what you claim (semantic chunking). The best way to do that is with a rigorous evaluation and probably good old fashioned "read and compare" by a human being. Somehow, I doubt that this UMAP technique always maps directly to semantically important aspects of a narrative, at least not in a way that is substantially more accurate and useful than previous methods.
I'd be happy to be proven wrong, but again this blog post is _extremely_ light on details. Hell, even saying "we don't want to release our algorithm because of the competitive landscape" as OpenAI does would be more useful than this.
- nutanc 2y agoHey, no problem on the language. Always happy for any thoughts :) We will open source next week. A couple of corrections: I never meant to say our method was superior. We have not done any benchmarks etc enough to write a paper. We have just been using this approach in our RAG pipeline and we have been happy with it. Sorry, will add a disclaimer in the post. Agreed. For semantic chunking, only read and compare works best. Not sure how to scale that to a bench mark. Guess for the PG essay, only PG can answer if the topics align with his thoughts :)[https://x.com/nutanc/status/1838813258972549549 https://x.com/nutanc/status/1838813258972549549] We will release the algorithm. I just put this out on Hackernews thinking this will also not be noticed as my all other posts :) But looks like some interest is there. Will post a follow up update soon. Sorry for the lack of details on the original post.