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by hannasanarion 1y ago
I'm referring to the fact that johnny-come-lately Zoom is the reference point for all video conferencing products. CU-SeeMee isn't "proto-Skype" it's a "proto-Zoom".
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by hannasanarion 1y ago
But this thread and the OP article assume that RAG is always done * exclusively* with vectors, and that's just not true, it's almost never been true.
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by hannasanarion 1y ago
Yes, you are right. The OP has a weirdly narrow definition of what RAG is. Only the most basic "hello world" type RAG systems rely exclusively on vector search. Everybody has been doing hybrid search or multiple simultaneous searc
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by hannasanarion 1y ago
How are they niche? The default mode of search for most dedicated RAG apps nowadays is hybrid search that blends classical BM-25 search with some HNSW embedding search. That's already breaking the definition. A search is a search. The
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by hannasanarion 1y ago
Chunking is still relevant, because you want your tool calls to return results specific to the needs of the query. If you want to know "how are tartans officially registered" you don't want to feed the entire 554kb wikipedia
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by hannasanarion 1y ago
That's a silly distinction to make, because there's nothing stopping you from giving an agent access to a semantic search. If I make a semantic search over my organization's Policy As Code procedures or whatever and give it t
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by hannasanarion 1y ago
This is fascinating for the ways that it's wrong, like, subscription services are as old as newspapers, and early internet news sites including Wall Street Journal had paywalls at the same time or earlier. Also this: > Video telecon
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by hannasanarion 1y ago
It's also just wrong that it was innovative. The Wall Street Journal website set up a paywall in the same year, and many other smaller sites probably did as well. As you say, the idea of subscribing for content goes back hundreds of ye
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by hannasanarion 1y ago
Yeah, because rocks EXIST. If gold loses its speculative value, you still have a very heavy, extremely conductive, corrosion resistant, malleable metal with substantial cultural importance. When crypto collapses, you have literally nothing
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by hannasanarion 1y ago
Train operators aren't as strictly regulated because they can't do as much harm, both in terms of the inherent catastraophic consequences of air travel disasters for passengers and bystanders, and in terms of the financial risk th
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by hannasanarion 1y ago
> At the same time, most, if not all manually written repositories do not pass the newfound quality metrics that must apply to AI code to be quality. That's because I trust the code that I write to have quality, because I wrote it,
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by hannasanarion 1y ago
Having the agent plugged into the DB doesn't mean the agent can see everything in the DB. If that plug includes an automatic "where current user has access" filter, then the agent can't know anything the user can't
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by hannasanarion 1y ago
But we're talking about access control, so in this case "filtering for foobar" means "filtering for stuff I'm allowed to see", and the whole point is that you can never turn that filter off to get a point of co
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by hannasanarion 1y ago
I don't understand how "using an index" is a solution to this problem. If you're doing search, then you already have an index. If you use your index to get search results, then you will have a mix of roles that you then
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by hannasanarion 1y ago
The thing about a user needing access to only 10 documents is that creating a new index from scratch on those ten documents takes basically zero time. Vector Databases intended for this purpose filter this way by default for exactly this re
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by hannasanarion 1y ago
....? Please elaborate. What is the mechanism whereby a state actor hacked the machines to get them to start changing the rate at which incoming votes go for one candidate vs the other... without changing the rate at which incoming votes go
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by hannasanarion 1y ago
LLN means that the mere fact that large samples converge is not a conspiracy. Election Truth Alliance's claim is essentially that 1000 coin flips should come up all heads just as often as 10 coin flips will come up all heads. The fact
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Show HN: Debunking Election Fraud Claims – Interactive Data Viz and Simulations(sullivan.zip)
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by hannasanarion 1y ago
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by hannasanarion 1y ago
I checked the paper, by "8mm wide" they mean that the letters were 8mm tall, which is a 22pt font (name-tag size), for those curious.
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by hannasanarion 1y ago
In this scenario, you would have had to go through an extensive amount of specialist effort to intentionally get the recipe generator to produce something poisonous when it never would have done so otherwise. Product warranties generally
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by hannasanarion 1y ago
Which would be entirely valid if it had any basis in reality whatsoever. The law you're scaremongering over criminalizes "KNOWINGLY sending FALSE information with INTENT to cause NON-TRIVIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL OR PHYSICAL HARM to a LIK
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by hannasanarion 2y ago
But a system of morality requires the ability to make "ought" statements. Merely saying what exists is not enough information to inform correct decisions, because whether or not something exists is unrelated to whether or not it i
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by hannasanarion 2y ago
Or it is more logically and ethically consistent and thus preferable to the models' baked in preferences for correctness and nonhypocrisy. (democracy and equality are good for everyone everywhere except when you're at work in whic
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by hannasanarion 2y ago
> Objectivism has merits around notions of reality being singular and shared by everyone in one way or another, and (hypothesis mine) if everything derives from a singular reality, by understanding this singular reality we should be abl
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by hannasanarion 2y ago
I think they're just trying to inform you that you're painting with a broader brush than you might realize. There are lots of flavors of Marxism out there, the one you're describing is often called "Orthodox Marxism&quot
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by hannasanarion 2y ago
Thinking Fast and Slow's biggest issues are in the middle chapters that rely heavily on priming research, which has been pretty thoroughly disproven since the book's release. The general gist of the core idea: that there are multi
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by hannasanarion 2y ago
> So let's say we continue along this trajectory and we finally have a model that can faithfully reproduce and identify every word sequence in its training data and its training data includes every word ever written up to that point
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by hannasanarion 2y ago
The point is that flouride has the same effect on your teeth no matter how many hectares of lifeless desert happen to be controlled by your government.
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by hannasanarion 2y ago
It's also about blocking spam. Don't know why that's buried in this particular article, but many sources have pointed to that as one of the primary use cases for the new system tool.

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