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by gregw134 2y ago
It's various measures of recall rate. Recall@500 means what percentage of the time does the target document show up in the top 500 results from the retrieval system.
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by gregw134 2y ago
Pretty sure 99% of what Perplexity does is Google your request using a headless browser and send it to Claude with a custom prompt.
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by gregw134 2y ago
My only experience with chatbots outside of Chatgpt/Google was with comcast yesterday, in which it tried to convince me for hours that it was a human fixing my internet connection, and I just had to wait patiently. Comcast mixed togeth
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by gregw134 2y ago
Nice sentiment, but are you using chatbots now and having a positive experience with them?
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by gregw134 2y ago
Technical support with Comcast yesterday: https://imgur.com/a/NJMEIkm Their actual human support couldn't figure out my problem, but instead of admitting it they just turn on AI-chatbot mode, effectively hanging u
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by gregw134 2y ago
Pretty sure kagi is a bing wrapper too, although they blend in some other datasets.
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by gregw134 2y ago
Please no
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by gregw134 2y ago
Doesn't Microsoft have an ad network?
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by gregw134 2y ago
How so? I'm building a startup now and am using aws, curious if you'd still recommend.
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by gregw134 2y ago
Ex-Google search engineer here (2019-2023). I know a lot of the veteran engineers were upset when Ben Gomes got shunted off. Probably the bigger change, from what I've heard, was losing Amit Singhal who led Search until 2016. Amit foug
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by gregw134 2y ago
I found a local poker club, fortunately. $40 buy in tournament, no rebuys, every week, with the same 30 or so people that show up. Way more fun than playing at the casino with sad addicts and sad poker pros grinding $40k annual salaries.
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by gregw134 3y ago
I'm sure it would lose a ton of meaning, but for me it's easier to fit into a traditional search pipeline.
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by gregw134 3y ago
> [recommend against] feeding very large pieces of text to the embedder Sounds right, I've heard this from multiple sources. That's why I'm leaning towards just embedding the keywords.
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by gregw134 3y ago
Any idea which model has the best performance across languages? I'm checking out model performance on the Huggingface leaderboard and the top models for English aren't even in the top 20 for Polish, French and Chinese
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by gregw134 3y ago
How are you guys deciding what parts of a document to turn into embeddings? I've heard paragraph embeddings aren't that reliable, so I'm planning on using tf-idf first to extract keywords from a document, and then just create
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by gregw134 3y ago
Risk any American soldiers? Definitely not. Support with drone strikes, sanctions, intelligence? Already doing that.
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by gregw134 3y ago
Short answer: yes
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by gregw134 3y ago
Isn't the Hadoop story also playing out with spark--the open source version is kinda buggy, while the spark committers at Databricks have retained all the fixes for themselves.
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by gregw134 3y ago
Any other history channels you enjoy? I finished every historia civilis video and need a new history channel to watch.
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by gregw134 3y ago
Historia Civilis is pure gold for history enjoyers.
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by gregw134 3y ago
Interesting, it says 36% of software developers are Asian but only 9% of web developers.
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by gregw134 3y ago
Bell labs, xerox parc, and sun microsystems. Quite the technical resume. >Early in his career, Schmidt held a series of technical positions with IT companies including Byzromotti Design, Bell Labs (in research and development),[19] Zilog
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by gregw134 3y ago
I'm just using common crawl for now
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by gregw134 3y ago
Wanted to say congrats on launching! I'm building a search engine myself, I can tell a lot of work went into this. I think the biggest thing you overlooked are page titles. When you issue a query it's a bit hard to quickly scan an
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by gregw134 3y ago
Probably better than hallucinating a wrong answer if it's stumped
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by gregw134 3y ago
Most people can't name any mathematicians, but amongst those that can I think he's top 5, behind more famous names like Newton, Archimedes and Euclid
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by gregw134 3y ago
Yeah that's what I figured. Julius Caesar marched on Rome with a hired army, then after his death Marc Antony and Octavian kept having to bribe their soldiers to fight and not switch side. Sounds like the army and leaders established a
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by gregw134 3y ago
The centurions were only paid double what soldiers were during the Republic era. Interesting their pay jumped to up to 30x during the empire.
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by gregw134 3y ago
Have any examples of what's being fixed?
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by gregw134 3y ago
LLMs are sure going to make the Watson advertising look outdated.

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