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by binarymax 1y ago
I think about failure modes. What happens if cloudflare decides you are a bot and you’re not. What recourse do you have? What are the formal mechanisms to ensure a person is not blocked from the majority of the web because cloudflare is
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by binarymax 1y ago
I agree in principle, but I disagree that it should be designed and mandated by a private gatekeeper
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by binarymax 1y ago
This is chaos.
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by binarymax 1y ago
I for the life of me cannot understand why everyone just rolls over. There is no fight. Media, CEOs, Lawmakers, there’s no protest and no pushback. It’s insanity.
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by binarymax 1y ago
The thing about spaCys API is that it perfectly aligns with how NLP worked at the time with actual programming paradigms and allows you to be very pythonic. For example, you can use list comprehension to get all the nouns from a document i
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by binarymax 1y ago
Some low hanging fruit: SpaCy makes an amazing chunking tool for preprocessing text for LLMs.
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by binarymax 1y ago
I’ve had success with fine tuning their transformer model. The issue was that there was only one of them per language, compared to huggingface where you have a choice of many of quality variants that best align with your domain and data. Th
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by binarymax 1y ago
I’ve been a user of SpaCy since 2016. I haven’t touched it in years and I just picked it up again to develop a new metric for RAG using part of speech coverage. The API is one of the best ever, and really set the bar high for language tooli
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Democrats should lean on this hard for 2026 midterm elections.
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by binarymax 1y ago
You might be getting downvoted because you editorialized your own title. If it’s obviously not the only thing then don’t add that to the title :)
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Interleaving for Retrieval Augmented Generation(maxirwin.com)
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Classic HN dismissive comment. The talent displayed here is immense. I challenge you to do better.
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by binarymax 1y ago
Really enjoyed the article and the illustrations. Lots of care went into publishing this.
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by binarymax 1y ago
My primary use case for LLMs are running jobs at scale over an API, and not chat. Yes it's very slow, and it is annoying. Getting a response from GPT-5-mini for <Classify these 50 tokens as true or false> takes 5 seconds, compa
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by binarymax 1y ago
Just plus
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This doesn't seem to be the case for me. I have access to GPT-5 via chatgpt, and I can also use GPT-4o. All my chat history opens with the originally used model as well. I'm not saying it's not happening - but perhaps the r
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by binarymax 1y ago
I've seen that, but I've also seen (from both sides) a total lack of understanding on what to do that consultants came in to help. I am/have been a search relevance consultant for years - I've seen lots of teams just wi
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by binarymax 1y ago
Yes. I found this out because I have a small tool I maintain for OpenAI API integration - and my integration test suite triggered this for the streaming case. The non-streaming cases didn't trigger the requirement. FWIW I am definitel
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by binarymax 1y ago
Lots of other options here if you don't like managing. You can use Elastic cloud, Bonsai.io, and others
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by binarymax 1y ago
Ultimately, (good) consulting just gets decisions made. Companies hire consultants when they don't know what the decision should be, or where to go next. Whether the decision is right or not, depends on the competence and experience of
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by binarymax 1y ago
Sure. This seems a cultural difference between US and EU. I've lived extensively in both. EU is known to be burdensome in terms of tech regulations. Normally I find this egregious. However when children are involved I am far more t
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by binarymax 1y ago
Can you blame them? To me, an AI grading platform for children seems like it should be regulated.
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GPT-5 streaming requires submission of biometric data
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by binarymax 1y ago
Our intern worked on a similar DSPy project last year for contracts, though the classifier was much simpler: binary classification of whether the line was the start of a new section or not. We saw some success, but it wasn’t a revelation, a
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by binarymax 1y ago
I'm talking about perplexity's behavior. Perhaps there's a point of contention on perplexity downloading a document on a person's behalf. I view this as if there is a service running that does it for multiple people, the
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by binarymax 1y ago
There’s nothing wrong with downloading documents. I do this in my personal search app. But if you are hammering the site that wants you to calm down, or bypass robots.txt, that’s wrong.
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by binarymax 1y ago
Here's how perplexity works: 1) It takes your query, and given the complexity might expand it to several search queries using an LLM. ("rephrasing") 2) It runs queries against a web search index (I think it was using Bing or
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by binarymax 1y ago
I've built and run a personal search engine, that can do pretty much what perplexity does from a basic standpoint. Testing with friends it gets about 50/50 preference for their queries vs Perplexity. The engine can go and downloa
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by binarymax 1y ago
I’ve not had good success with vibing rust. It requires lots and lots of handholding and editing. Perhaps it’s because the model is always trying to do things from scratch. It does a poor job of finding crates and understanding the docs and
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by binarymax 1y ago
This guy reddits

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