gillesjacobs

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by gillesjacobs 2y ago
I need an LLM in my fax machine.
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by gillesjacobs 2y ago
The team is currently skiing for two weeks so we'll have to get back to you on that.
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by gillesjacobs 2y ago
The naming might be somewhat politically coloured but post training with quality data is the best case for uncensoring models: abliteration usually causes substantial drop in performance. Too bad the created dataset is not open source, as t
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by gillesjacobs 2y ago
Using 03-mini-high + Search I get the right answer he was looking for: The species was first split at the subgeneric level by Gregory S. Paul in 1988—he proposed the name Brachiosaurus (Giraffatitan) brancai. Then in 1991 George Olshevs
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by gillesjacobs 2y ago
Do you have any retrieval and generation metric scores (eg, KILT or NQ datasets)? I know benchmark datasets are not the be-all-end-all, but a halfway decent score and inference-time, would really help sell your framework (or help engineers
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by gillesjacobs 2y ago
The technique of generating hypothetical answers (or documents) from the query was first described in the "HyDE (Hypothetical Document Expansion) paper". [1] Interestingly, going both ways: generate hypothetical answers for the qu
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by gillesjacobs 2y ago
Tis Leive, sis
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by gillesjacobs 2y ago
My great grandparents had a friend die in this fire. Then they and their kids had to go through it again 26 years later.
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by gillesjacobs 2y ago
Safe to say that if you're using off-the-shelf character-based chunking, your AI app is not past PoC.
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by gillesjacobs 2y ago
The parallel browsing has strong resemblance to Xanadu from Ted Nelson's, which was a proposed web protocol and browser. But I am vague about Xanadu's browser as I only seen it as a brief flash in Werner Herzog's Lo and Behol
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by gillesjacobs 2y ago
You would think policy makers have an obligation to track this, but they don't. There are no studies, KPIs or attempts at tracking effectiveness of subsidy policy. The burden of proof should be on the policy maker and subsidizer to ens
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by gillesjacobs 2y ago
A free market of voluntary transactions solves this problem
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by gillesjacobs 2y ago
According to that calculator my CA tax burden ratio would be 29.7% so seems the websites I read were not far off the mark.
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by gillesjacobs 2y ago
Pray tell, what enlightened incorruptible entity would enforce and organise UBI?
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by gillesjacobs 2y ago
I am a self-employed freelancer and I have done all fiscal optimization possible in BE and my effective tax burden is 37%. From what I find in Google about CA's total optimized tax burden for a one-man freelance company it is about 28%
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by gillesjacobs 2y ago
Additionally, for laws like this that specifically take away democratic control this argument is entirely moot. Any claimed benefit or justification is entirely nullified for regular people if their oversight and transparency processes are
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by gillesjacobs 2y ago
You hit upon the "locality principle of representative democracy": the more non-local elected representatives are in their excertion of power, the less oversight by the electorate. EU Law is seperated from the electorate by multip
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by gillesjacobs 2y ago
You're taking this very personally and in the public domain even though it will hurt your company. Maybe there gets a point you become so wealthy, that ego is all that matters. But you're supposedly a smart guy who cares about his
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by gillesjacobs 2y ago
> But calling the EU not being democratic is going too far Unelected commissioners draft laws, while elected MEPs rubber-stamp with barely any changes. The Council's backroom deals make smoke-filled rooms look transparent. Try expla
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by gillesjacobs 2y ago
1. Three years ago, you liked some tweets of someone who you didn't know was a political seperatist. Now, his group had been classified a terror organisation. 2. You went to buy some acetone as a solvent for a project. There is now mat
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by gillesjacobs 2y ago
Like many I am looking for an exit too, at least fiscally. Right now I am -like many here- territorially bound by family and real-estate. But the negative economic death spiral has set in here. More people work for the public sector directl
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by gillesjacobs 2y ago
Ah yes, I am truly misanthropic for questioning my 60% tax burden mainly to the benefit of parasitic bureaucrats.
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by gillesjacobs 2y ago
In Belgium art grants are basically determined by committees of peers organized by largely politically independent bureaucrats at the many different levels of government we have. It's all navel gazing, entrenched interests and nepotism
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by gillesjacobs 2y ago
Coincidentally, the "corporate" media in Belgium is also heavily subsidized (as in a significant amount of their revenue is subsidies). And we also have public media. Yet no credible evidence of the effectiveness of endless subsid
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by gillesjacobs 2y ago
In Belgium, it is relatively easy to get "artist-statute" which is a subsidized higher monthly welfare income (Basic Income for artists). Belgium runs on the "subsidize-and-conquer" paradigm, the tax burden is one of the
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by gillesjacobs 2y ago
> Did you put any copyright notices in your work? If not, it may be too late, because they can continue to distribute the old version that did not have copyright notices. This is not how copyright works. Without a license, default copyri
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by gillesjacobs 2y ago
This is also why chip implants from eg Dangerous Things with MIFARE were desirable: you could clone old MIFARE chips this way using some tools. Sadly, neither my gym or work access card were cloneable even though they are MIFARE Classic. So
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by gillesjacobs 2y ago
Pretty good, it found some useful references I missed in Google Scholar and Arxiv. Looks promising, will use it more.
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by gillesjacobs 2y ago
The algorithm I use to get a final ranking from multiple rankings is called "reciprocal ranked fusion". I use the implementation described here: https://docs.llamaindex.ai/en/stable/examples/low_leve
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by gillesjacobs 2y ago
I really want to see some evaluation benchmark comparisons on in-chunk augmentation approaches like this (and question, title, header-generation) and the hybrid retrieval approach where you match at multiple levels: first retrieve/filt

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