nickcassimatis

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by nickcassimatis 1y ago
Thanks for the pointers. The pricing is free for now. In the future we’re guessing it will be a typical freemium pricing model. There is also a totally self-hosted version that people can license.
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Show HN: A memory for Claude & ChatGPT with custom data types, sharing, and GUI(dry.ai)
8 points by nickcassimatis 1y ago|0 comments
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Building software is so expensive that it is causing major problems(cassimatis.dry.ai)
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by nickcassimatis 8y ago
I'd be happy to hear more about these use cases you have in mind, either here or over email.
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by nickcassimatis 8y ago
It's a reasonable concern. Many apps we won't be able to handle at first can easily be handled by our approach with more work. For some capabilities, we will have ways of filling gaps in the platform. We have some easy-to-use and
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by nickcassimatis 8y ago
Like Access, we do aim to make development much easier, and in-house tools are an obvious first market. However, there are a lot of aspects of Dry (involving access permission, data tagging, moderation, and more) that aren't all toget
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by nickcassimatis 8y ago
You actually do not have to understand the software underneath. The point is for that to be invisible to the developer.
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by nickcassimatis 8y ago
We'll probably be posting a technical whitepaper and/or more technically-oriented video to the website soon. I was the founder of SkyPhrase, a natural language processing startup that Yahoo acquired in 2013. Natural language was
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by nickcassimatis 8y ago
This isn't a snarky response, but a sincere question: how would you have titled the article or expressed our mission? It's difficult to come up with something that's clear and captures our intent while also fitting into a si
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by nickcassimatis 8y ago
Yes, in a sense, all computing is AI. Alan Turing was explicit in his writings that he was trying to create machine intelligence and that he saw Turing Machines as a formalization of behavior he attributed to intelligence. Thanks for the c
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by nickcassimatis 8y ago
To do some advanced customization of how an app looks would require some javascript, but if they are happy with the UI we provide by default, then they could build some nontrivial stuff.
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by nickcassimatis 8y ago
Our approach is very model-driven. Three differences/innovations with respect to that work are that 1. the models we use have a few additional elements that lead to a much wider range of apps that can be created, 2. we have a way of o
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by nickcassimatis 8y ago
But I understand your reaction. I personally love AI and started working on it during the "AI winter" when everyone told me it was career suicide. I've been to AI conference where the keynote was on ordinary A/B testin
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by nickcassimatis 8y ago
Even if you are correct about doing it with rules and a constraint solver, rule-based systems and constraint solving systems are all AI methods. Constraint solving especially is still a very active topic of AI research and something I myse
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by nickcassimatis 8y ago
I agree that figuring out exactly what you want is a lot of work. Our platform only helps there in that it makes it faster to iterate through different guesses at what you might want to arrive at what you do want. However, once you do know
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by nickcassimatis 8y ago
The idea is that in many cases how an edge case is handle is up to the person requesting the software. So unless you build an AI that can read minds there needs to be an easy way to express what their preferences are.
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by nickcassimatis 8y ago
Yes. We have an event language where you basically can say "IF X happens do Y".
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by nickcassimatis 8y ago
Yes, any company that's serving a lot of web pages would be tempted to put ads on their pages. As the article and our website state, we are doing several things to preserve people's privacy. If we do ever serve ads, you and othe
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by nickcassimatis 8y ago
It's a good point. Our actual platform is all https. Our home page is just a static page. But you're right that it's bad optics for a platform intended to be privacy friendly to not be using https.
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by nickcassimatis 8y ago
Re AI, check out the thread where I explain how we don't use training models or conventional machine learning. We use very deterministic.
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by nickcassimatis 8y ago
Every developer I know has a friend or family member who wants them to write some software for them. The friends and family think it will take a few hours, but it really takes us weeks and skills we often don't have. So the software
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by nickcassimatis 8y ago
So you wanted the headline to be more dry?
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by nickcassimatis 8y ago
http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/ That's a link to a widely-used AI textbook. The methods that most people today associate with AI (i.e., the learning-based inference methods), are only a fraction of the overall content.
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by nickcassimatis 8y ago
There is a partial answer to this in another thread, but here is a response to your specific point: It depends what you mean by inference. In statistical machine learning and deep learning, inference means predicting things using large amou
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by nickcassimatis 8y ago
Another connection is this: Part of how Dry works is that you give it a data model for your application (which can be quite complex) and we automatically generate the code for storing, retrieving, sharing, etc. that data. Normally for any
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by nickcassimatis 8y ago
AI is an element of this in a number of ways. First, though, this is not a platform for writing AI applications. It's a platform for making it faster to write messaging, social, collaborate, productivity, etc. apps much faster than.
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by nickcassimatis 8y ago
Thanks. I'll reach out to you offline.
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by nickcassimatis 8y ago
Thanks. I think that's right. There are a lot of use cases where super-precise UI control is not necessary. The early web and many blogging platforms are an example where you can get very far despite some limits on UI customization.
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by nickcassimatis 8y ago
No. The point is to never have to look at, modify, or understand the underlying code. So, in this sense, it's not a typical code generation tool where if you want to tweak something you need to do a lot of work to find the right plac
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by nickcassimatis 8y ago
From the developer's point of view, the AI should be invisible. We'd be very happy if people loved using the platform but where totally underwhelmed, indifferent, and/or unaware of the AI.

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