jbellis

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   by jbellis 2y ago

   That's correct! I've tested the build-with-compression approach used here with all the datasets in JVector's Bench [1] and there's near zero loss in accuracy. I suspect that the reason the DiskANN authors used the approa
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   by jbellis 2y ago

   I routinely see Linux page memory out to swap while having 10+GB free. I can only guess that it really really really likes to cache recently used data from disk.
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   by jbellis 2y ago

   FWIW this is what Cassandra does on startup, but it didn't seem worth it to go to the trouble of dealing with Unsafe for a demo project.
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   by jbellis 2y ago

   [article author] TBH this was sloppy on my part. I tested multiple runs of the index build and early on kswapd was super busy. I assumed Linux was just caching recently read parts of the source dataset, but it's also possible it was
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   by jbellis 2y ago

   [article author] The source to build and serve the index are at https://github.com/jbellis/coherepedia-jvector
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   by jbellis 2y ago

   Yes, that is how I came up with that number.
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   by jbellis 2y ago

   1024 per vector x 41M vectors
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   by jbellis 2y ago

   Also missing Ford Lightning. Weird list.
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   by jbellis 2y ago

   I don't think rght to repurchase is routine. It was a scandal a few years ago when it turned out that Skype did that. https://www.forbes.com/sites/dianahembree/2018/01/10/startup...
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    by jbellis 3y ago

    I couldn't tell you the names of the founders of contemporary PC builders like North Star or Cromemco, either. But that's just because none of them lasted more than a decade or so. Even the founders of Commodore, which was 10x mo
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    Vector Size Matters(thenewstack.io)

    1 points by jbellis 3y ago|0 comments
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    by jbellis 3y ago

    Every save would work. You just ("just") need good caching. Cursor nails this. https://twitter.com/amanrsanger/status/1750023209733464559
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    by jbellis 3y ago

    [not part of greptile] I've given it a fairly serious shot and my conclusion is that building IDE hooks is seriously depressing. IntelliJ deprecates APIs constantly and the docs don't really keep up. And then there's the t
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    by jbellis 3y ago

    [not part of greptile] I can only think of two serious competitors, neither of which is open source. And I don't think anyone serious at either of those companies would claim that they have the definitive solution.
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    by jbellis 3y ago

    it's an option once you start the checkout process to upgrade
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    by jbellis 3y ago

    Looks like some kind of bug on repos w/ many branches. Loading https://github.com/datastax/cassandra/ , I search for `vsearch` and it presents me with CNDB-8708-vsearch and DSP-23946-vsearch, but not vsearch
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    by jbellis 3y ago

    That's why everyone is standarizing on NACS for new models. Not much you can do about old ones.
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    by jbellis 3y ago

    > better at incorporating search results in its answer vs gpt-4 bing That's odd, I had Gemini repeatedly tell me it couldn't search the web in response to my question (that I was trying to get it to answer from the context I pr
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    by jbellis 3y ago

    I use my xreal air as my airplane display. I would love the Quest 3's higher resolution but my understanding is that compared to the XA the Q3 - Requires controllers - Requires wifi instead of plugging in the cable and it just works*
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    by jbellis 3y ago

    Thanks! What kinds of use cases cause this kind of situation, where the query and indexed vectors are from different distributions?
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    by jbellis 3y ago

    Why is the research story for MIPS even worse than for ANN?
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    by jbellis 3y ago

    I'm pretty sure that "too many applicants" counts as a first-world problem for most schools.
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    by jbellis 3y ago

    And the GPA-grubbing is ridiculous to the point of being comical.
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    by jbellis 3y ago

    I was taking time off in 2022 when my daughter's high school CS teacher quit (to take a job at Microsoft). I volunteered to step in until they could find a qualified replacement. It ended up working out, but it was a pretty big proble
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    by jbellis 3y ago

    I'm very happy with the Dell 3260 as a workstation for dev work (it's available w/ Ubuntu preinstalled). Discrete GPUs are a configuration option but I have no idea how they spec out for gaming.
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    by jbellis 3y ago

    Nice to see people care about index construction time. I'm the lead author of JVector, which scales linearly to at least 32 cores and may be the only graph-based vector index designed around nonblocking data structures (as opposed to u
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    by jbellis 3y ago

    He is literally comparing whisper.cpp on the 4090 with an optimized-for-apple-silicon-by-apple-engineers version on the M1. ETA: actually it's unclear from the article if the whisper optimizations were done by apple engineers, but it&#
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    by jbellis 3y ago

    OTOH continental Europe seems to be more prone to try to solve housing affordability with rent control, which basically results in NIMBY through the perverse incentives it imposes.
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    by jbellis 3y ago

    Thank you for the pointer!
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    by jbellis 3y ago

    fwiw I do like how easy it is to share conversations now. if you change it, please make the friction to sharing minimal.