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Faster, cheaper, and maybe better. The article explains the last part.

vibe compliance

Have a bunch of Makerile commands (pbcopy-api, pbcopy-ui, pbcopy-curr) that use some mishmash of git ls-files, grep, xargs tail -n +1 piped into pbcopy.

Kitchen sink command: pbcopy-all: git ls-files | xargs tail -n +1 | pbcopy

Works like a charm in Q2 2024.

I’m sure this will be a very solved problem by 2025.

“ Finding effective documentation, information, and training is likely to get harder, especially in specialised topics where LLMs are even less effective than normal.”

Who needs documentation with Claude and pbcopy?

I'm excited for the Michael Lewis version of the Rust library ecosystem.

Groq will soon support function calling. At that point, you would want to describe your data specification and use function calling to do extraction. Tools such as Pydantic and Instructor are good starting points.

I am collecting these approaches and tools here: https://github.com/imaurer/awesome-llm-json

Currently, LLM models are not state of the art at Named Entity Recognition. They are slower, more expensive and less accurate than a fine tuned BERT model.

However, they are way easier to get started with using in context learning. Soon, they will be cheaper and probably faster enough too that training your own model will be a waste of time for 95% of use cases (probably higher because it will unlock use cases that wouldn’t break even with the old NLP approaches from a value perspective).

This is why I am tracking LLM structured outputs here:

https://github.com/imaurer/awesome-llm-json

And created an autocorrecting pydantic library that could be used for Named entity linking:

https://github.com/genomoncology/FuzzTypes

R2 support for egress $$ reasons?

How'd they get both Chainsmokers?

I don’t know anything about Lua other than I want to try it out because of redbean [1]. Wonder if this project can work with that?

[1] https://redbean.dev/

One feature I haven’t seen people write about is the ref2vec capability. I find this to be an interesting way to get some knowledge graph-like capabilities out of Weaviate.

Posting here to see if someone sees it by happenstance and writes an awesome article about it someday so I can read it.

https://weaviate.io/blog/ref2vec-centroid

Two places I use it: Preview on my Mac, photos on my phone. Haven’t seen an api yet.

Yes

Yes, cosine distance works best in convex or normalized sets. Thinking about adding this caveat. Thanks for the question.

Well Weaviate is graphql and it has filtering and hybrid search which is a great feature that pg can’t fully support because it doesn’t have bm25

https://weaviate.io/developers/weaviate/api/graphql/filters

https://weaviate.io/blog/hybrid-search-explained

I have a ChatGPT session where I have asked it to do a hybrid search using filtering, pg fts and vector search. Looks reasonable just need to test it and write it up somewhere.

AWS just added yesterday. Hosting options tracked here:

https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector/issues/54

I am bullish Pgvector because I am “postgres for everything guy”.

Current concerns are the scaling and recall performance.

The author is looking at product quantization along with other ideas: https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector/issues/27

More details on product quantization: https://mccormickml.com/2017/10/13/product-quantizer-tutoria...

A nice repo that tracks the ANN relative performance of different indexes: https://mccormickml.com/2017/10/13/product-quantizer-tutoria...

Also shoutout to Weaviate because they have great docs, are open source and have very informative YouTube channel.

https://weaviate.io/

I hope someone implements BM25 and combines it with Pgvector to bring hybrid search to Postgres. I feel like that is the jsonb of the next couple of years.

Best part of Simon being part of it, is that there will be a great record of it from his blog and TILs.

HuggingFace’s platform allows for experimenting, learning and leveraging models and data sets including LLM and instruction sets to train a chat bot.

For “merging”, I would learn about fine tuning to see if that’s what you are looking to learn more about.

If Google Docs was the only way most people wrote text then I think your analogy would indeed be apt. In this case, nearly all people using Large Language Models are doing so through a web page (ChatGPT) or an API.

That's the inspiration behind the name, open for something better. Considered "Edge" as well, but was concerned that would seem IoT/mobile specific.

Tracking repos and resources for running LLMs locally here:

https://github.com/imaurer/awesome-decentralized-llm

Submit new links here :)

https://github.com/imaurer/awesome-decentralized-llm

I cannot imagine building anything but toys using OpenAIs stack. Not your model, not your product.

It's still on the top of hckrnews: https://hckrnews.com/

Do "IF-THEN" statements count as AI? Do rules-based expert systems count?

I really enjoyed this interview with Ghost founder John O’Nolan. Seems like a very smart, classy guy leaving the world better than he found it

https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/139-john-onolan-of-ghos...

I feel like I need some definitions to understand this article and discussion. What is dev? What is ops? What is devops? What is system administration? What is sysadmin?

I'm 47 and what is described seems like the old problems that I thought devops solved.

Is zlib the most installed software component in the world? Or is it curl or sqlite.

Interesting blog post about this topic:

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/10/21/the-most-used-softwar...

URL is to a "Things I Learned" by Simon W, but the title comes from tweet by David Beazley:

https://twitter.com/dabeaz/status/1466731368956809219

Which is a warning that people shouldn't buy his new book if they want a deep dive on Metaprogramming:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0134173279/

Simon does a nice job demonstrating how "the __init_subclass__ class method is called when the class itself is being constructed."