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by yfontana 10mo ago
If I were to do this (and I might give it a try, this is quite an interesting case), I would try to run a detection model on the image, to find bounding boxes for the planets and their associated text. Even a small model running on CPU shou
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by yfontana 11mo ago
On the professional side, they also often let you interact with their experts and architects directly, as part of your support contract. With most other companies, you either have to go through front-office support exclusively, or pay extr
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by yfontana 11mo ago
> I’m downplaying because I have honestly been burned by these tools when I’ve put trust in their ability to understand anything, provide a novel suggestion or even solve some basic bugs without causing other issues.? I've had that
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by yfontana 11mo ago
> In the examples given, it’s much faster, but is that mostly due to the missing indexes? I’d have thought that an optimal approach in the colour example would be to look at the product.color_id index, get the counts directly from there
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by yfontana 11mo ago
Interestingly, "aggregate first, join later" has been the standard way of joining fact tables in BI tools for a long time. Since fact tables are typically big and also share common dimensions, multi-fact joins for drill-across are
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by yfontana 1y ago
> - It says it's done when its code does not even work, sometimes when it does not even compile. > - When asked to fix a bug, it confidently declares victory without actually having fixed the bug. You need to give it ways to vali
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by yfontana 1y ago
I think I was shadow-banned because my very first comment on the site was slightly snarky, and have now been unbanned.
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by yfontana 1y ago
Properly measuring "GPU load" is something I've been wondering about, as an architect who's had to deploy ML/DL models but is still relatively new at it. With CPU workloads you can generally tell from %CPU, %Mem and
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by yfontana 1y ago
Open source models like Flux Kontext or Qwen image edit wouldn't refuse, but you need to either have a sufficiently strong GPU or get one in the cloud (not difficult nor expensive with services like runpod), then set up your own proces
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by yfontana 1y ago
I pay for chatgpt because, in my experience, o3 and o4 are currently the best at combining reasoning with information retrieval from web searches. They're the best models I've tried at emulating the way I search for information (e
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by yfontana 1y ago
From the article: > Besides protein folding, the canonical example of a scientific breakthrough from AI, a few examples of scientific progress from AI include:1 > Weather forecasting, where AI forecasts have had up to 20% higher ac
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by yfontana 1y ago
> It’s insane to me that maybe every bank I use requires SMS 2FA, but random services I use support apps. It never ceases to surprise me how much American banks always seem to lag behind with regards to payment tech. My (european) bank s
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by yfontana 1y ago
I've been working on extracting text from some 20 million PDFs, with just about every type of layout you can imagine. We're using a similar approach (segmentation / OCR), but with PyMuPDF. The full extract is projected to run
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by yfontana 1y ago
We don't know for sure that the universe is a closed system.
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by yfontana 1y ago
Primordial black holes are black holes that formed right after the big bang. Basically areas where gravity caused the extremely dense matter of the universe's first instants to collapse into black holes before expansion could pull it a
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by yfontana 2y ago
It's absolutely not crazy, and I don't know how a car could only cost you 1k/year. This is just an example but has the average cost of motoring in Ireland in 2019 at almost 11k€/year : https://www.theaa.ie&#x2
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by yfontana 2y ago
A while ago I worked on a system handling call records for a large telco. Call records were considered sensitive information at that company, and distributed only where definitely needed. I'm sure security wasn't bulletproof, but
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by yfontana 2y ago
This is inaccurate. Reserve requirements are not the only cost that banks have to pay for the money they create. If bank A lends $20B, and the borrower spends it to buy something from someone with an account at bank B, bank B isn't goi
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by yfontana 2y ago
I think the hardest bug I've had to work on was just plain irreproducible. Once we exhausted all other ideas, we just attributed it to some sort of bit flip. Not a very satisfying resolution, but kinda cool to have encountered such an
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by yfontana 2y ago
I'm working on a projet that uses PaddleOCR to get bounding boxes. It's far from perfect, but it's open source and good enough for our requirements. And it can mostly handle a 150 MB single-page PDF (don't ask) without c
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by yfontana 2y ago
This may be a shock to many HN readers, but MongoDB's revenue has been growing quite fast in the last few years (from 400M in 2020 to 1.7B in 2024). They've been pushing Atlas pretty hard in the Enterprise world. Have no experien
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by yfontana 2y ago
>>> PBS Spacetime has a video out now on whether gravity is actually random. I don't know whether it addresses theories of superfluid quantum gravity. It doesn't, it talks about the possibility of randomness allowing grav
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by yfontana 2y ago
As written in that article, there are questions to be answered before this observation can be considered a serious challenge to dark matter. Such as: why don't we observe the same phenomenon in other galaxies? Why are things orbiting t
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by yfontana 2y ago
It's not even all tech either. Europe has some big players in silicon or biotech for example. It does however lack giants that introduced major disruptions in the way things are done, like cloud services, social networks, gig economy e
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by yfontana 2y ago
To be clear it's an early access release, although as far as I can tell it's very high quality early access, with a lot of polish and heaps of features.
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by yfontana 2y ago
I've been doing some work for an infrastructure company as well. They have a total of about 1 billion pages of PDF documents in their archives. If we assume even just 30 KB per page (which is quite low, all the PDFs I just randomly che
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by yfontana 2y ago
LLMs were never very good at directly generating original jokes, for a simple reason: writing a good joke generally starts with finding a good punchline, and then setting it up. An LLM generating token after token will first write a set-up,
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by yfontana 2y ago
Maybe better recognition of data architecture as a specific domain would help. I'm a data architect, I have a specific set of skills to build and maintain data platforms, but when applying for jobs I'm very often finding myself in
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by yfontana 2y ago
In many cases, that means gaining the freedom of creating a huge mess (speaking from experience)
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by yfontana 2y ago
My testing was admitedly limited (but focused on cases where GPT-4o was struggling), but in my experience Claude 3.5 also produced fewer hallucinations than GPT when doing OCR with figures / tables recognition. It is of course quite pr

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