yuhongsun

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   by yuhongsun 3y ago

   Ya, parsing the file is generally not bad at all. The problem comes with the fact that LLMs are notoriously bad with numbers and formatted data. So the current approach of passing relevant information to the LLM and asking it to generate an
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   by yuhongsun 3y ago

   Ya, handling spreadsheets is a beast of its own. We have this simple implementation to cover easy cases for folks but likely it will need its own more involved pipeline for indexing, retrieval, and interactions with the LLM. Currently with
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   by yuhongsun 3y ago

   Ah yes, this reminds me! I forgot to mention it but for the local NLP models that we run, they're in the range of 100 million parameters so they're able to be run on CPU (no GPU required!) with pretty low latency. Also a fun tidbi
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   by yuhongsun 3y ago

   I think I understand your concern but if I miss the point, please follow up! So regarding getting access to read knowledge from the different tools, it depends tool by tool but a lot of them have API keys or options for app integrations ava
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   by yuhongsun 3y ago

   Yes, we have an API and a way of accessing it with a generated API key which you can find in the admin panel. Two things to note though. The APIs are intended for serving the Danswer frontend. The functionality is generally complete for sim
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   by yuhongsun 3y ago

   We chose FOSS because we think this type of tool will be universal in the near future. We likely won't be able to directly serve millions of teams ourselves by the time it happens but by open sourcing, if teams want it, they can just s
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   by yuhongsun 3y ago

   Thank you for the kind words!
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   by yuhongsun 3y ago

   Email: founders@danswer.ai Slack: https://join.slack.com/t/danswer/shared_invite/zt-2afut44lv-... Discord: https://discord.gg/TDJ59cGV2X We hear this a lot - we take it to mean we've fou
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   by yuhongsun 3y ago

   We have a strong emphasis on the retrieval half of RAG. A big part of the value of Danswer is in connecting to sources like Notion, Linear, GitLabs, etc. We do incremental updates to keep data fresh, pull in metadata, etc. We also have feat
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    Launch HN: Danswer (YC W24) – Open-source AI search and chat over private data

    231 points by yuhongsun 3y ago|129 comments
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    by yuhongsun 3y ago

    Thanks!
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    Ask HN: Are Cross-Encoders Dead?

    3 points by yuhongsun 3y ago|1 comments