mmargenot

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by mmargenot 21d ago
basically, yeah. wild flash in the pan, but i think it's cute in that it's signaling reduced down to the absolute bare bones.
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by mmargenot 21d ago
not a lot of horror assets either unfortunately. i wanted ghosts and ghouls and zombie tiki with my pirates but got industrial wasteland and candyland.
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by mmargenot 21d ago
A key part of maintaining a second brain is revisiting and pruning it. Much like a todo list, without that practice it absolutely just accumulates bunk.
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by mmargenot 21d ago
In recent news this page that's been somewhat viral recently seems an interesting successor to the million dollar homepage: https://outbid.lol/ A little nihilistic, but I find it charming.
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by mmargenot 21d ago
And you get bm25 for free with so many modern setups! I do still love to experiment with tuning semantic search for your specific corpus via various kinds of embeddings, but bm25 is hard to beat.
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by mmargenot 25d ago
This is so cool! For the time being I’m still locked into notion for my handwritten knowledge base, but I love this for incorporating external information. For the semantic search is there any chunking/processing that happens with the
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by mmargenot 26d ago
as a fun aside here from the abstract it does come down to how you use it: > AI users who maintain similar homework completion time as non-AI users experience small learning losses. If the pure completion time of homework goes drops sign
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by mmargenot 26d ago
Glad to have scientific results on this, though in my view you could get this from first principles. Homework is onerous but it forces you to learn the material and get it into a configuration that works in your head, which you then validat
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by mmargenot 2mo ago
I think my notetaking undergoes a transformation each year. Last summer I made a remembrance agent plugin in obsidian which has been useful for collecting my notes on technical info and cross referencing. I still have a notion zettelkasten,
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by mmargenot 2mo ago
Sounds like good support for a few different paradigms. Python has pretty good autogenerated reference docs, but if you want more than markdownified docstrings it makes them as difficult to maintain as the other pillars. As a set, the pilla
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by mmargenot 2mo ago
I love whenever this comes up. It’s a great framework for thinking about and writing docs. It’s hard to keep documentation up to date, however, and I find that items like tutorials and reference materials (unless generated off versioned cod
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by mmargenot 2mo ago
I just retried a few queries that were failing ~3 days ago and they are returning correct [enough] results on mobile as of today, when I don't need them. I'm not sure of the cause or how to actually trigger a reindex or a fix when
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by mmargenot 2mo ago
Gmail's search on mobile, where things come up in the quick results only to disappear when I complete the search, is a millstone about my neck.
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by mmargenot 2mo ago
I find this routing problem to be opaque and I’m generally skeptical that the label people are trying to predict is meaningful. If you really need more discrimination of the complexity of an input to get an efficient response, sft or rl tun
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by mmargenot 2mo ago
How do you handle the more densely written pages in script ? I did a very similar exercise OCRing works from this exact collection, but I stuck with the English books for the first pass.
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by mmargenot 5mo ago
I love this approach, very Diamond Age. I uploaded a picture of my cat and learned a lot about coat genetics. I think it fixated on his coloration.
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by mmargenot 5mo ago
AI applications that would help normal people in a significant way are pretty lacking, so I'm not surprised. So much conversation about AI products is cycles of "this tech will change everything" without material backup outsi
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by mmargenot 6mo ago
Here’s an explicit example of the above from today using the above dataset: https://x.com/kaiostephens/status/2040396678176362540?s=46
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by mmargenot 6mo ago
This is a great idea! I saw a similar (inverse) idea the other day for pooling compute ( https://github.com/michaelneale/mesh-llm ). What are you doing for compute in the backend? Are you locked into a cohort from month
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by mmargenot 6mo ago
It is more common now to improve models in agentic systems "in the loop" with reinforcement learning. Anthropic is [very likely] doing this in the backend to systematically improve the performance of their models specifically with
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by mmargenot 6mo ago
Very cool! This was a good impetus to actually add RSS to my blog.
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by mmargenot 6mo ago
Especially when people pushing it are trying to capture your attention, it’s good to be deliberate about the tech that you introduce.
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by mmargenot 8mo ago
Do you have a source for this? Most information I’ve seen around this (e.g. Acquired podcast, from the Costco side) claims strong positive relationships.
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by mmargenot 8mo ago
Cursor uses a vector index, some details here: https://cursor.com/docs/context/semantic-search
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by mmargenot 8mo ago
I made an obsidian extension that does semantic and hybrid (RRF with FTS) search with local models. I have done some knowledge graph and ontology experimentation around this, but nothing that I’d like to include yet. This is specifically a
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by mmargenot 11mo ago
I had the good fortune of seeing Lawrence of Arabia in 70mm in a theater and then going to watch Prometheus within the same two week span. It gave me a much greater appreciation for the movie [Prometheus], and what it was trying to do.
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by mmargenot 11mo ago
The patterns associated with primes are inherent to the numbers themselves and not their representations. The numbers are the pattern.
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by mmargenot 11mo ago
I like the idea of self-hostability, but not having to think about the deployment of the frontend piece has been a huge accelerant for me, someone who typically thinks only of ML and backend components.
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by mmargenot 1y ago
You can also run for a charity by raising sufficient money for a cause that sponsors you.
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by mmargenot 1y ago
`outlines` ( https://github.com/dottxt-ai/outlines ) is very good and supported by vLLM as a backend structured output provider ( https://docs.vllm.ai/en/v0.8.2/features/structured_outputs.h

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