kingcauchy

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by kingcauchy 7d ago
First principles are your foundational beliefs, orientations, ideas upon which your values are construction, mission is built, direction is set, decisions are made for a business usually (I think the idea applies in general but personally I
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by kingcauchy 8d ago
DuckDB is a good one, we're working on that especially for the serverless/lakehouse stuff we've got planned for the next release! I believe we originally had qdrant in our benchmarks but ran into an explosion of testing requi
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by kingcauchy 8d ago
It can't be hosted as a cloud service correct (see ValKey by Google, OpenSearch by Amazon), there's a disclaimer on the GitHub about how and why as well.
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by kingcauchy 8d ago
I think of perfect from two perspectives, one being "finding things I wanted to find", the other being "findings things I didn't know I wanted to find". I think Claude is great if the data isn't proprietary, se
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by kingcauchy 11d ago
We definitely were combining the rewrite with the opportunity to lay foundation for a more performant architecture, for instance index management and indexing autosharding could be resourced together in the new world with slightly different
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by kingcauchy 11d ago
We rewrote Antfly, which I introduced to the world a little bit back https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47414291 , from Go to Zig. Thought it is interesting to juxtapose to the Bun rewrite from Anthropic and wanted to talk
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A Search-and-Inference Database from Scratch in Pure Zig(antfly.io)
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by kingcauchy 3mo ago
I wonder if we'll see a new sort of "role" in the training (user, system, assistant) for unstrusted sources, I'm a little surprised we haven't already. In fact it would probably make sense to have an arbitrary numbe
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by kingcauchy 4mo ago
How much of the apology was written by Claude? How much of the release note process was written by Claude? Will they have better prompts going forward to make sure Claude doesn't write upsetting things into the release notes for devs l
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by kingcauchy 4mo ago
« Trust us, we’re doing this for the good of humanity » (fills pockets with stock value and externalities from data center polloution) « No seriously trust us , at least we’re not Sam Altman » Update: « Oh and we’re the only ones who will s
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by kingcauchy 4mo ago
It's also hard to imagine them not doing this with any of the products they're building. "You can't use Claude to build an agent because that competes with Claude Code, you can't use Claude to build a design tool be
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by kingcauchy 4mo ago
"We won't use this product to spy or build weapons but you'll have to trust us, but we're also going to intentionally lie to you when you break our terms of service but trust us."
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by kingcauchy 4mo ago
The silently never telling you is so insidious on top of it being ridiculous given how they trained the model in the first place. We do distributed model training for embedder/reranker models and I'd deeply resonate that this arti
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by kingcauchy 4mo ago
I work with you so I'm bias but I think this is neat.
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by kingcauchy 6mo ago
Thanks for the feedback! In regards to contention, the answer is definitely dependent on how you host. We've had a lot of experience running different ML workloads and from an SRE perspective we knew you'd need a variety of differ
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by kingcauchy 6mo ago
I'd be super interested to here more about what you all do in this space, currently Antfly (and Termite) doesn't handle custom content types explicitly because we've mostly focused on supporting the "classic" ones (
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by kingcauchy 6mo ago
https://github.com/antflydb/antfly/pull/8 Upon another look it looks like we were actually missing the pause lock for the backfill operation too during a shard split though, I also went ahead and added it to
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by kingcauchy 6mo ago
I guessed that neo4j gets this question a lot so I went to see if they had a good blog post and this one is pretty good https://neo4j.com/blog/cypher-and-gql/10-things-you-can-do-w...
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by kingcauchy 6mo ago
Possibly, Amazon and Google also made the ability for smaller startup based DB companies to go that route with things like ValKey and OpenSearch. LLMs have made it super easy to transpile the ideas into whatever programming language you ple
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by kingcauchy 6mo ago
Nope! Awesome you’re poking around though. I’m currently working on deterministic simulation testing and a feature set to allow pausing of index backfills but it’s not fully implemented yet, stay tuned!
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by kingcauchy 6mo ago
Great question! I think the fundamentally hard problem with distributed systems (at least for me!) comes down to the complicated distributed state machines you have to manage rather than the memory management problems. I think async rust ge
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by kingcauchy 6mo ago
Fascinating! We settled on Quic with Protobuf because it was more performant in our testing than the gRPC when coupled with the backoff, failure cases (node startup ordering server/client connections), and to not be coupled with the gR
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by kingcauchy 6mo ago
I've added a specific example for that using the go-sdk https://github.com/antflydb/antfly/pull/5 here!
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by kingcauchy 6mo ago
I can't speak for everyone, knowledge graphs are the "new hotness" of the ai space (RAG and MCP are seeing a lull in their hype cycles I guess). But I've used graphs professionally for a long time to connect relationship
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by kingcauchy 6mo ago
There's some examples in the quickstart on the website but I'll add an explicit e2e example case for that too. Otherwise the tests for that are a little lower level in the code! I'll add the RSF (merging of the two lists) exa
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by kingcauchy 6mo ago
Thanks! Fixed that up!
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by kingcauchy 6mo ago
Oh thanks for the 404 on the verify link (I abstracted out the auth OIDC for cross domain login and must have missed a path). Yes good call, I tried to start that on the website with a react-flows based architectural flow chart a little bit
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by kingcauchy 6mo ago
Definitely open to working with you on supporting even better tooling for this as I imagine many different "styles" of migration will be necessary. The number 1 supported migration path for users though is one of my personal favor
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by kingcauchy 6mo ago
Yes we do use SIMD heavily! https://github.com/ajroetker/go-highway I also added SME support for Darwin for most algorithms. We use it in the full-text index, all over the vector indexes and heavily for the ml inferenc
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by kingcauchy 6mo ago
Not strictly google but microsoft/bing too, here's the top ones from my notes: https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.14452 spfresh, https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.08566 spann, https://arxiv.

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