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>Ads? Too obvious. Have you dealt with people paying for ads? They want your rapt attention, not some possibly subliminal suggestion. The "good" thing about chat AIs is that they can, with a little work, make it nearly impossib
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>AI can't look at ads But ads can be put in AI.
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>select * from crime_scene, suspects This is a cross-join. It is the equivalent of a nested loop in programing and almost never what you want to do in a database unless you like watching high-combination data spewing out and CPUs burning
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2y ago
>Oh no, it doesn't run on Apple Silicon. That's too bad. Interesting, because the hero image is a Mac App screenshot.
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>what does it even mean to recommend to others? I will give you a real-world example. My girlfriend works for the government and they have an initiative to do outreach to people in the local community and let them know of all the funded
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2y ago
I have never had any trouble with flexbox or grid, but am curious how do you use LLMs to do your layout or to get it to do layout with flexboxes? Do you just give it a very detailed description of the layout? Or do you give it an image that
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2y ago
For dedicated they say this: >All root servers have a dedicated 1 GBit uplink by default and with it unlimited traffic. >Inclusive monthly traffic for servers with 10G uplink is 20TB. There is no bandwidth limitation. We will charge €
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2y ago
They are "at work" ... for other people's versions of "at work".
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2y ago
My experience matches your's, but related to >3. Hypothetical answer generation from a query using an LLM, and then using that hypothetical answer to query for embeddings works really well. What sort of performance are you getting i
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If the UI got you to a page that started with a search of some type, then you can look in your own experiences of how many times have you went to the second page on Amazon, Ebay, or Google search? Probably not often. So the answer is some c
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2y ago
>All people who took calculus because they had to, how have you used it? Although I create software, my degree is in finance. Calculus is everywhere, and I mean everywhere, in finance after you get past the basic intro courses, for schoo
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2y ago
Mine was slightly different with geometry (middle school) > algebra (high school) > trig > calc 1 > calc 2, then in college they had calc 3 (which in hindsight was linear algebra with a heavy physics lean), then differential equ
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>We have built quite a few highly useful LLM applications in my org that have reduced cost and improved outcomes in several domains Apps that use LLMs or apps made with LLMs? In either case can you share them? >which tells me you aren
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2y ago
I have also seen sweetened condensed milk used as a base for some really good ice creams.
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Yes, I think it is hard-snapping to certain rotation angles when it gets close.
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>Also note that in the 1700's/1800's nepotism in government was considered normal. I think this is still common. People like to think a son or daughter will govern just like a parent. But it sometimes doesn't work tha
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"Now that you are having the best experience, to ensure safety we will require acknowledgement that we might monitor what you type and may have to ability to disable your required account if we detect unsafe words or searches. This can
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2y ago
If I recall the original law in North Carolina to limit community-owned broadband was called "Saving North Carolina Jobs Act" or something similar. It came about as a backlash to powerline broadband. Ironically all the people that
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>There will always be a good offering who doesn't water mark. I wouldn't bet on that! I can see legislation to require this for many reasons ... related to intellectual property, cheating, detecting the root of hate-speech or h
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2y ago
Also this youtuber[0] is extremely good at visually (and verbally) describing current scholarly understandings of this. Similar (but different) to 3blue1brown in that way. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6PrrnhAKFQ
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And also looks like full support for Mac ARM so, good info wood_spirit.
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Annoy is old, but works surprisingly well and is fast.
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>Out of interest is nearest neighbour even remotely effective with 300 dimensions? They are/can be anyway. I had data with 50,000 dimensions, which after applying dimensionality reduction techniques got it "down to" around
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2y ago
There are plenty of set-it-and-forget-it vector dbs right now, maybe too many![0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41985176
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>and that is more important than CH I think. If measured by $$$$$ clickhouse certainly has more installations.
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>I've created new apps from scratch with it. Would mind sharing those apps to view. Not the code, just the apps. I have a suspicion about the bi-modal experience.
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This is still passive. This is similar to owning 10 apartment buildings. You have to hire managers to deal with all the day-to-day, but there is still money left over. You just have to make sure that they aren't stealing from you. Simi
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>The people I’ve seen drop out of something and succeed are like out-of-this-world fucking good. And frequently from connected and/or rich families. That can be very useful in success, it turns out.
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>They're (poorly) aping mathematical notation without the properties that give actual notations their power to augment thought using symbolic manipulation Yeah, I'm not sure I agree with that. Both of these are some of the most
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If you mean people that lived in Mexico, that may be. If you mean people that crossed from Mexico into the US across the Southern Border, those numbers are dwarfed. These are just the numbers that we know for sure from observation or intera
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