falling_myshkin

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by falling_myshkin 3mo ago
> It is a fine thing when a man who thoroughly understands a subject is unwilling to open his mouth, and only speaks when he is questioned. Yoshida Kenko, Essays in Idleness
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by falling_myshkin 3y ago
been a lot of these RAG abstractions posted recently. As someone working on this problem, it's unclear to me whether the calculation and ingestion of embeddings from source data should be abstracted into the same software package as th
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by falling_myshkin 3y ago
There's an issue in the pgvector repo about someone having several ~10-20million row tables and getting acceptable performance with the right hardware and some performance tuning: https://github.com/pgvector/pgvect
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by falling_myshkin 3y ago
After seeing raw source text performance, I agree that representational learning of higher-level semantic "context clusters" as you say seems like an interesting direction.
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by falling_myshkin 3y ago
For those who don't know: http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html I agree with you for the NLP domain, but I wonder if there will also be a bitter lesson learned about the perceived generality of
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by falling_myshkin 3y ago
i don't disagree with the premise that Google should be responsible and explicitly acknowledge that the average computer-interested person trying out bigquery has no clue how sharp of a knife it is and they actually do need to be prote
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by falling_myshkin 3y ago
> to store and retrieve retrieve != query this project is extremely simplistic in regards to its vector search tech. pgvector is an open source implementation of an _index_ (multiple algos actually), this uses Cloudflare's completel
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by falling_myshkin 3y ago
I am not sure what you mean specifically by 'overlapping'. But high-dimensional vector space is really "big" in the sense that everything is way closer together compared to low dimensions (this is the curse of dimensiona
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by falling_myshkin 3y ago
i think the confusion comes from the mixup between the words "database", "store", and "index". Vector "store" is trivial, even for hundreds of millions of vectors you are still in the realm of what is
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by falling_myshkin 3y ago
Thank you for the response, it is helpful. I am not used to Python and know that I am not using the language well. So I think it is worth focusing on this. > not to make huge (also architectural) mistakes I'm noticing it's the
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by falling_myshkin 3y ago
Young engineer here in charge of a project and feeling quite out of their depth, I agree with this. Currently no mentorship and it will take a couple months for a senior hire. Do you have any advice? What does a senior engineer love/ha
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Ask HN: Advice for programmer with impostor syndrome motivated to study
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by falling_myshkin 3y ago
I agree, vector search on music seems pretty obvious at this point.
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by falling_myshkin 3y ago
the doctrine is that only things that are 'novel' and 'non-obvious' (to a 'person having ordinary skill in the art') can be patented, and any accessible published material (among other things) is considered &#x
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by falling_myshkin 3y ago
this combo technique sounds useful, is it something like reviewing memory palaces with spaced repetition, instead of reviewing standalone information?
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by falling_myshkin 3y ago
i don't like _auto_complete, i find that the nondeterminstic text changes on the screen are pretty distracting. however, I do really like quick lookup of relevant names at my own will from the editor. this is possible with even e.g. ed
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by falling_myshkin 3y ago
I don't understand your simile. The limitations of a bicycle are infrastructure: bicycles can go a lot of places very efficiently, but rugged mountain terrain without trails (precisely the place condors thrive) would be difficult to tr
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by falling_myshkin 3y ago
Me neither. Memory palaces also show that this effect can be emulated (not sure if that's the right word) in the mind. I wonder if there is a way for computers to encourage developing a 'mind map'
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by falling_myshkin 3y ago
hi, as a meditator and epileptic my curiosity is piqued. When you say 'this link', did you mean OP or is there a link you meant to add to your comment? if the latter I would be keen to look at it.
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by falling_myshkin 3y ago
maybe neurofeedback? https://web.archive.org/web/20110710194522/www.epilepsyhealt... wikipedia claims there is not much recent research when it references that link. it is being shown that meditation can affect br
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by falling_myshkin 3y ago
i have the same troubles in social situations with too many inputs. i am quite frankly asocial because of it, though i don't necessarily want to be. do you mind if i ask what your reaction feels like? my reaction feels a lot like disso
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by falling_myshkin 3y ago
not parent but as someone with temporal lobe epilepsy, in addition to what parent describes, difficulty recalling words is definitely something i experience. Probably the most annoying thing that i have had to learn to deal with is people t
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by falling_myshkin 3y ago
i recently had my first generalized seizure and once i knew and talked with doctors who confirmed it as primarily TLE i realized i had been having focal seizures for years. i think i may have a similar feeling in long meetings/conversa
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by falling_myshkin 3y ago
Primarily medication. Fasting has a long (ancient) history as a treatment for epilepsy, the modern revival and investigation of the ketogenic diet specifically relates to certain types drug-resistant childhood epilepsy. The Wikipedia articl