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by scottfr 1y ago
In the early 1800's Alexis de Tocqueville attributed a lot of American success to its small organizations/associations: "There is nothing, according to me, that deserves more to attract our regard than the intellectual and mo
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by scottfr 1y ago
If you want to experiment with a version of the world model the article references, you can play with an implementation I put together here: https://insightmaker.com/insight/2pCL5ePy8wWgr4SN8BQ4DD/The-...
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by scottfr 1y ago
Interesting, I would love to hear how well those worked. Grammit uses the Prompt API for the local LLM, which currently uses a version of the Gemma 3n model on Chrome. Grammit uses prompting instead of fine-tuning or custom training. Simpli
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by scottfr 1y ago
I don't know if Vivaldi supports the new Prompt API [0] that Grammit uses to run the local LLM. As far as I know, the only browsers supporting it currently are Chrome [1] and Edge [2]. [0] https://github.com/webmachinel
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Show HN: Grammit – Local-only AI grammar checker (Chrome extension)(chromewebstore.google.com)
34 points by scottfr 1y ago|6 comments
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by scottfr 1y ago
There is a proposal to add support for this: https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/MSEdgeExplainers/blob/main/...
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by scottfr 1y ago
There is a Prompt API in development that's available in both Chrome and Edge to give access to a local LLM. Chrome extensions have access to it and I believe websites can request access as part of an origin trial. The model is fully m
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by scottfr 1y ago
Yes, Chrome uses the Gemini Nano model for the Prompt API while Edge uses the Phi-4-mini model.
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Show HN: Grammit – Local-only AI grammar checker (Chrome extension)(chromewebstore.google.com)
3 points by scottfr 1y ago|2 comments
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by scottfr 1y ago
We're building a Chrome extension grammar checker that runs locally using Chrome's built-in LLM. You can try it out here: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/grammit-the-ai-gram... LLMs can also correct
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Does style matter? Disentangling style and substance in Chatbot Arena(lmsys.org)
1 points by scottfr 2y ago|0 comments
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by scottfr 3y ago
Epic is not a customer of Apple. Many of Apple's customers are also customers of Epic. Apple is trying to prevent those shared customers from accessing Epic.
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by scottfr 3y ago
I've created a few DSL's and I've regretted not closely emulating an existing language that users already know. When creating a new DSL you should find the language that is most familiar to your users. That could be Python, J
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by scottfr 3y ago
Disagree on using Bayesian statistics. Frequentist statistics are perfect for A/B testing. There are so many strong biases people have about different parts about UI/UX. One of the significant benefits of A/B testing is that
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by scottfr 3y ago
It's a similar situation with Chrome extensions. Extension reviews are generally pretty quick (an hour or so), but every once in a while you get hit with a longer one (days+). In this type of environment, you need to ensure every relea
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by scottfr 3y ago
We built Text Blaze [0] a Chrome Extension [1] that supports a lot of similar capabilities. It lets you do text expansions on any website using hotkeys, include dynamic values like the date a week from today in your snippets, build form UI&
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by scottfr 3y ago
The Bard model (Bison) is available without region lock as part of Google Cloud Platform. In addition to being able to call it via an API, they have a similar developer UI to the OpenAI playground to interactively experiment with it. https
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by scottfr 3y ago
Firebase uses Google Cloud Logging. Taking a quick look at the blog post here, Google Cloud Logging already seems to support everything it describes. Is there something in it that makes it a better solution in some way than what Google is a
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by scottfr 3y ago
We've explored usage based pricing for our app which has a core unit-of-work that delivers value to the user. We've talked with various customers about adopting usage based pricing in place of our standard cost per user pricing mo
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by scottfr 3y ago
My company has an Airtable competitor that has API support for SQL. It has pretty good SQL capabilities solving the issues with pagination you have in Airtable. An overview of the supported SQL syntax is here: https://blaze.today
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by scottfr 4y ago
Google Groups is heavily used within Google's ecosystem. Specifically it is: - a system for managing group-based access for Google Workspace users, e.g. share a Google Doc with a group to give all members access - a system for managing
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by scottfr 4y ago
I created a fairly popular system dynamics modeling application back when I was a grad student [0]. When using modeling tools like system dynamics, it's useful to keep in mind George Box's quote that "All models are wrong, bu
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by scottfr 5y ago
Here's an interactive implementation of the World3 model: https://insightmaker.com/insight/1954/The-World3-Model-Class...
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by scottfr 5y ago
You just need a way for a package maintainer to flag a vulnerability in a dependency as a non-issue that does not affect that package's use of the dependency. In Dan's twitter thread, he calls this out as a viable solution.
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by scottfr 5y ago
The LCP metric is particularly brittle. It's concerning Google is linking it to search ranking thereby ensuring everyone caters to it. In our case, our hero image (formerly the LCP element Lighthouse picked up) is an animated image ill
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by scottfr 5y ago
It's not immediately clear to me where this is superior to BigQuery authorized views: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/authorized-views#row-... The comparison in the source doc ( https://cloud
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by scottfr 5y ago
I think you and others on this thread are being much too harsh on their messaging. Most people who have the need this product is meeting will have already encountered Calendly as it is ubiquitous in the space. It's basically a generic
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by scottfr 6y ago
Interestingly Chrome use to support always on top windows in extensions. They eventually got removed There is a very interesting comment from one of the developers on the removal bug ( https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromiu
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by scottfr 6y ago
Marketing is not our strong suit admittedly. Customer success is our biggest vertical but we have lots of users outside it which makes messaging tricky. The most interesting three users I heard from using Blaze were a priest, a tarot card r
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by scottfr 6y ago
We support email and password login so you shouldn't need to sign in with Google (not sure if Chrome requires you to be logged in to install Chrome extensions in general).

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