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by wbarber 3y ago
What's to say this isn't just a demonstration of memorization capabilities? For example, rephrasing the logic of the question or even just simple randomizing the order of the multiple choice answers to these questions often dramat
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by wbarber 3y ago
Looks like we have the same question.
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by wbarber 3y ago
Plasmic.app works with vue - why not just use that?
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by wbarber 3y ago
Very cool. Are you familiar with plasmic.app? I'm expecting to integrate it into my next site build and would be curious for your take having built something in the same general category.
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by wbarber 3y ago
I'm attempting to write a function that splits a long document into shorter segments of text, splitting the text into the topics discussed as a step in a data processing pipeline prior to embedding the shorter segments of text for vect
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Help with Hidden Markov Model for Topical Text Segmentation(colab.research.google.com)
1 points by wbarber 3y ago|1 comments
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by wbarber 4y ago
Thanks for sharing! Looks great, care to share your thoughts on the model decisions in the models.py file. I assume you have a take on the speed vs storage costs vs relevance quality (and/or licensing) of these models vs others here:
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by wbarber 4y ago
I'll follow up via email. Thanks Paul.
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by wbarber 4y ago
Depends a bit what your goals are. But I think generalist are undervalued on average. Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein is all about this and he says it better than I can so it’s easiest to just point yo
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by wbarber 4y ago
There seem to be a few "long rang transformer options" ( https://huggingface.co/blog/long-range-transformers ). They're slower (not an issue for my use case though). I've heard one talk on this issue
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Ask HN: How to build a cost effective MVP for niche web search?(coda.io)
2 points by wbarber 4y ago|6 comments
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by wbarber 4y ago
I'm a minimally technical entrepreneur that could use some guidance on piecing together an MVP for a search product. Some quick background on the idea (also in the linked document): What Users Want: Ability to quickly generate a list o
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by wbarber 4y ago
This is awesome. Will definitely be playing with this tomorrow.
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by wbarber 4y ago
Unfortunately 90%+ of people need to continue taking the drug to keep the weight off. It’s an expensive drug but there is increasing competition in the drug category which will be good for consumers in the long run.
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by wbarber 4y ago
Patients do indeed need the drug to keep the weight off. They have proven this. But that is not an issue at all. Individuals who have gained a significant amount of weight do not produce leptin, grehlin, and other related hormones in the sa
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by wbarber 4y ago
Very likely so. I know of at least one study in which they are interested in determining if weight loss from semaglutide results in a similar decrease in cancer rates that they see in bariatric surgery patients. The drugs cause you to eat l
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by wbarber 4y ago
Curious to hear PM's thoughts on scenarios like this when it might make sense to change x or use a specific technology in the first place to keep developers happy or more easily recruit devs.
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by wbarber 4y ago
Anyone know of a company other than Paddle and PayPro Global that act as the merchant of record and remit taxes for you globally? I'm a solo founder not interested in dealing with either the complexities of these billing issues nor wit
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by wbarber 6y ago
Googled for confirmation that the Google CSE index is different from "the real Google Index" and haven't been able to confirm that. I've tinkered with Google CSE a lot and it does have its uses. The knowledge map options
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by wbarber 9y ago
Lurker MBA student interested in PM roles here. Would be very interested to hear more about what you liked about Kepner-Tregoe, and how you learned it.