sidnb13

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by sidnb13 11mo ago
I don't think vector databases are intended to be secure, encrypted forms of data storage in the first place.
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by sidnb13 2y ago
+1, immensely satisfying read for any aviation nut
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by sidnb13 2y ago
Cool to see that this worked well for someone. Super hard to force the key insight in a problem to magically appear given more time sunk into it. Big weakness of mine honestly, and requires a lot of self-awareness to pull myself out of a pr
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by sidnb13 3y ago
Wow, sorry to hear that. Came across his blog in 2021 and was instantly hooked. RIP
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by sidnb13 3y ago
Very cool. I used to dream of this stuff when I was younger. Reminds me of Atlantik Solar: https://www.atlantiksolar.ethz.ch/ . Hasn't been updated in a while, but focused more on low-altitude autonomous survey missions
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by sidnb13 3y ago
Ah that would make sense. Similar to vLLM which does dynamic packing.
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by sidnb13 3y ago
I would assume the datacenter and infra needed would also contribute a sizeable chunk to the costs when you consider upkeep to run it 24/7
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by sidnb13 3y ago
> I also believe that within say 1-3 years there will be a different type of training approach that does not require such large datasets or manual human feedback. I guess if we ignore pretraining, don't sample-efficient fine-tuning
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by sidnb13 3y ago
Yep, batching is a feature I really wish the OpenAI API had. That and the ability to intelligently cache frequently used prompts. Much easier to achieve this with a hosted OS model, so I guess it's a speed + customizability/cost t
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by sidnb13 3y ago
maybe worth looking into: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36750083
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by sidnb13 3y ago
Maybe worth looking into: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36750083