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johnshahbazian

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johnshahbazian··on Goldman Sachs is pulling Claude Code from its bankers and traders
Financial institutions are incredibly risk-averse when it comes to technology, so its no surprise to me. Local AI might soon become an answer for them, though.
johnshahbazian··on A Jev that can ask Opus for help gives Opus accuracy at 4x lower cost
I got very good results from JevK5: https://github.com/allebee/jevk5

It's what I use locally. For my workload, it was right up there with Jev.

johnshahbazian··on Memorilla: Latent Semantic Memory for LLMs
I think its offering a compromise between accuracy and tokens. You don't have to use as many tokens and you get pretty good accuracy, but not the absolute best. I think, however, in many situations people aren't super concerned about the tokens as they are with the accuracy.
johnshahbazian··on Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production
Are the battery compartments water proof? We got hit by a hurricane a few years ago, and a few nearby teslas caught on fire from the floodwaters, torching people's houses.
johnshahbazian··on Inkling 2 Small
I'm not affiliated with them at all. yeah I like them, and yeah I like to compare decision models at the moment.

Don't believe me? Google my name.

johnshahbazian··on Inkling 2 Small
For my own purposes, I found Mercury Decide to be excellent. Better than Jev at what I threw at it. Inception did a really great job with it.
johnshahbazian··on A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis
If you know the exact domain you're working in, then a trained model could potentially do better, but its not a guarantee. For example, I fine-tuned Muse Glimmer on a specific domain and then tested it against Mercury Decide - which I've found does better than Jev - and they were even (and no fine-tuning was done on Mercury). But Mercury Decide was was faster and cheaper. The P95 for latency was about 5.6x lower. Decision models are very, very fast.
johnshahbazian··on A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis
People like me who are excited about Jev-style models aren't going to use them to diagnose cancer. We are going to use them to make fairly straightforward decisions very quickly (300 ms or less) and very cheaply ($0.042 per M input tokens - output tokens aren't billed). Even the lower end frontier models will take much longer and be much more expensive, so these decision models are perfect for certain things.