mkaszkowiak

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by mkaszkowiak 4mo ago
What was your approach to benchmarking an adversarial agent? This is an open problem that I came across (in a different domain), as the search space can be really wide. It's hard to measure results for non-trivial tasks. Would be reall
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Customize your Fedora with a Dockerfile(blog.piaseczny.dev)
4 points by mkaszkowiak 9mo ago|0 comments
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by mkaszkowiak 11mo ago
Google is killing Android. Along with the side-loading changes, I'm losing the desire to keep using it, as it's no longer an open OS. What's the point of those changes? Does Google want to maintain its revenue from Play Store
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by mkaszkowiak 1y ago
Happy to see competition in rerankers! Good luck with your product. My questions: what languages do your models currently support? Did you perform multilingual benchmarks? Couldn't find an answer on the website
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by mkaszkowiak 2y ago
Easier to handle edge-cases - real examples: - What if certain rows in a table don't need to be embedded? - What if we use a single API key for embedding database rows and user queries and it hits a rate limit - how to prioritize user
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by mkaszkowiak 2y ago
I agree with the author - introducing a vector database often isn't worth the extra complexity. Personally, I can vouch for ParadeDB: https://www.paradedb.com/ It adds extra extensions to PostgreSQL which enable vector
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by mkaszkowiak 2y ago
I've also thought about creating a Codenames bot: what if we could use semantic similarity to batch words together? Surely, this can be done using a prebuilt embedding model and clustering! After some failed experiments - it performed
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by mkaszkowiak 2y ago
Glad to hear that :) Thanks for developing Marker!
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by mkaszkowiak 2y ago
Thanks for answering! In my case, I don't directly use RAG; but rather post-process documents via LLMs to extract a set of specific answers. That's also why I've asked about deduplication - asking LLM to provide an answer fr
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by mkaszkowiak 2y ago
How do you combine the outputs? Wouldn't there be data duplication between unstructured text and tables?
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by mkaszkowiak 2y ago
Did you encounter hidden costs when using Azure Document Intelligence? I processed some PDFs using the paid tier, but the resulting costs were way higher than expected, despite using a prebuilt layout model for only structured extraction. H
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by mkaszkowiak 2y ago
For my use case, overall Marker seems to work pretty well - but it has issues with tables. Merged cells, misplaced headers, and so forth. I'm currently extracting Polish PDFs that are //not// scanned When compared t
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by mkaszkowiak 2y ago
This aurora was really powerful! I could see it with a naked eye from a town in central Poland, despite cloudy weather and light pollution. Feels great to finally see it in person
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by mkaszkowiak 3y ago
Surprised by the amount of negative comments. Kudos to the team! This is very impressive to accomplish in 24h with a 3-man team.
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by mkaszkowiak 3y ago
Thanks for the links! I'll read them :)
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by mkaszkowiak 3y ago
I still don't see how developing high quality software is related to one's personal viewpoint on taxes.
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by mkaszkowiak 3y ago
I agree that it's problematic, however: > welfare/health care system is bad, taxes are not used well There's a widespread lack of trust in the Polish government, which decreased even further during the 2015-2023 period. If
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by mkaszkowiak 3y ago
Good questions, no clue. The answer probably lies somewhere between a "badly designed tax system" and "stimulating growth of the IT sector".
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by mkaszkowiak 3y ago
Similiar laws are in Poland, except they're not really enforced. It's really rare that the tax office would prove a company exists solely for tax optimization. The risk virtually drops to zero if one freelances after the hours and
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by mkaszkowiak 3y ago
How is tax optimization related to the quality of developed software?
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by mkaszkowiak 3y ago
Taxes. Standard tax rate (on UoP) is 12% up to ~30k USD, the rest is taxed 32%. On top of that, the employer pays a social security fee, its rate rises proportionally to income. As an one-person business, you have two most popular options:
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by mkaszkowiak 3y ago
I've used and had fun with Game Maker at his age - not sure how it fares with 3D though, there might be better alternatives nowadays :)
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by mkaszkowiak 3y ago
Smartphones immediately come to mind.
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by mkaszkowiak 3y ago
Meanwhile, my blog got some of its posts de-indexed in the latest Google update, despite trying to write high quality content.
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by mkaszkowiak 3y ago
> A 10Gbps link fully utilized (minus some overheads), translates roughly to 3 Petabytes per month, that's 36 petabytes per year, almost double their advertized amount of bandwidth needed for calls per year. I understand this is nap
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by mkaszkowiak 3y ago
This is good news, but aren't well-phrased questions a strong suit of Gov.uk forms? Other government departments might not be familiar with proper guidelines for form creation. Has this issue been approached? (curious, as I'm not
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by mkaszkowiak 3y ago
iPads are often used by students for note taking, they seem to excel in this niche
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by mkaszkowiak 3y ago
https://kaszkowiak.org/en/blog/ Mostly about bike adventures and side projects :)
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by mkaszkowiak 3y ago
An average programmer in Poland earns 18k PLN net monthly, which is around 14k PLN after taxes. This is 5 times the minimal salary - UoP after taxes equals to ~2709 PLN monthly. You can earn 6k even at an internship outside of Warsaw. This
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by mkaszkowiak 3y ago
Does this comply with GDPR?

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