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by eskibars 2y ago
This would have been very useful at several companies I worked at as a product manager for release blogs. I always start editing in gdocs because it's so much easier to collaborate on than any blog platform, but then you always need to
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Show HN: Mockingbird is an LLM that outperforms GPT4 on RAG(vectara.com)
9 points by eskibars 2y ago|1 comments
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Vectara raises $25M for enterprise RAG and releases its own generative LLM(venturebeat.com)
3 points by eskibars 2y ago|0 comments
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by eskibars 2y ago
I worked at HP when they introduced Instant Ink. This was a natural progression. But even in 2013, there were managers in power positions that knew and were talking about how much the subscription models were going to hurt their base. But a
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Ask HN: Does your business prefer token-based pricing?
1 points by eskibars 2y ago|0 comments
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by eskibars 2y ago
That's correct. We've got a blog that talks a bit about it: https://vectara.com/blog/do-smaller-models-hallucinate-more/ Some people are surprised by smaller models having the ability to outperform bigg
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by eskibars 2y ago
FYI, I work at Vectara and can answer any questions. For us, we treat hallucinations as the ability to accurately respond in an "open book" format for retrieval augmented generation (RAG) applications specifically. That is, given
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by eskibars 2y ago
I think anybody that asserts their "human in the loop" doesn't have the same problem is biased/delusional. People make mistakes: even the best people. We accept that risk as colleagues/employers/employees becau
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by eskibars 2y ago
As always, "it depends." But for those that are dubious: VCs generally dont like companies that have super high gross margins, because it signals you might have left growth on the table. In general, if you set your original pr
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by eskibars 2y ago
Seat-based pricing isn't dead, but it's on life support, though it has nothing to do with AI now or realistically in the future. Consumption based pricing is becoming/already the norm for 2 reasons. As a SaaS operator, my sto
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by eskibars 2y ago
Vectara
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by eskibars 2y ago
Having worked building out a RAG SaaS platform for the past year and having worked on the vendor side of several keyword-based search systems in the past 10 years, I can say it's absolutely necessary to have some kind of hybrid search
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by eskibars 2y ago
You don't need to look hard to find this happen. OpenAI has had several API outages this year
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by eskibars 2y ago
I worked in product at Elastic working on Elasticsearch, which ended up trying several different things (some of which I know the broader OSS-driven community didn't like, so I'm prepared for downvotes here). We had started off by
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by eskibars 2y ago
I've worked on 4 different (pretty heavily used) developer-focused products in my career in product management, and we hand-built SDKs for each of them. This experience is so common: in all cases, a lot of the leadership went into it
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by eskibars 2y ago
I bought xn--mn8h9e.ws a couple years ago just for fun. I think it's fun to own an emoji domain, but what I can say definitely say is that it's still a bad idea to own one if you want to get emails to it. Popular thick email clien
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Show HN: AI Kids Book Generator(kidsbook.connelly.casa)
2 points by eskibars 2y ago|0 comments
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by eskibars 3y ago
I really wanted to understand where this community is at in their generative AI journey. Are you in production? Just looking around? Have you tried and ran into serious problems? Is it living up to the hype but too expensive? I built a
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by eskibars 3y ago
Are there any sample documents for these types of attacks? I'd love to test my own service.
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by eskibars 3y ago
On the PR front, a lot of the issues can be fixed before a PR is ever submitted: make it clear in the PR process that there should be an issue open before a PR. That gives you an opportunity to discuss with the community before coffee gets
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Show HN: Chat-focused RAG with automated memory management(docs.vectara.com)
4 points by eskibars 3y ago|3 comments
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by eskibars 3y ago
Hi HN! I lead product at Vectara. Yesterday, we launched Vectara Chat, which is a set of APIs to help organizations combine chatbots with RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation). One of the most common things we've heard from the commun
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Show HN: Sankofa – Browser extension to semantically search your history(vectara.com)
19 points by eskibars 3y ago|1 comments
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by eskibars 3y ago
That's exactly what Vectara is (full disclosure, I work there)
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Ask HN: Do you like to use REST verbs
2 points by eskibars 3y ago|1 comments
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by eskibars 3y ago
Besides the other comments in this thread, I'd really recommending looking at least first to the (relatively new) "Managed index" in LlamaIndex: https://docs.llamaindex.ai/en/stable/community/in
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by eskibars 3y ago
Having worked on a (production, as-a-service RAG system), what we've learned is that fine tuning is not good for really adding/removing facts but is great for changing the form of the output. Anyscale has a great blog on this:
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by eskibars 3y ago
It'd be great. My understanding is that there's basically no live data for freight trains unfortunately
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by eskibars 3y ago
I love it! I made a mashup of video feeds and live train locations to show you video feeds from trains that are about to show up: https://train.api.connelly.casa/ This gives me lots of ideas of additional agencies to inclu
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Show HN: Open-source model and scorecard for measuring hallucinations in LLMs(vectara.com)
65 points by eskibars 3y ago|14 comments

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