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nick_rocks

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nick_rocks··on Show HN: Natural Language to SQL "Text-to-SQL" API
What do you mean by complex SQL? How complex?
nick_rocks··on How to connect OpenAI's Assistant API to your SQL database
Really cool to see people already testing the capabilities of OpenAI's latest release. Not sure how useful this will be in practice since it will likely lack business context/tribal knowledge, but still really interesting.
nick_rocks··on Comparing Open-Source LLMs for NL-to-SQL
Open source LLMs are catching up with OpenAI. They are also considerably cheaper in the long run. We took a look at how they performed in terms of accuracy vs. OpenAI in an NL-to-SQL workload.

tldr -> For zero-shot prompting, the closed source LLMs are still far ahead in terms of generating accurate SQL. However the gap is closing. With the right dataset for fine-tuning the open-source LLMs might be able to perform at the same level.

nick_rocks··on DNA turbine powered by a transmembrane potential across a nanopore
That's absolutely fascinating! The use of single-molecule fluorescence to verify rotational motion is indeed impressive. I'm curious, how do you think this groundbreaking technique could potentially impact future research in the field?
nick_rocks··on Food and Generative AI
seems like there's a high potential for the AI to hallucinate and get confused with ingredient measurements... last I checked, LLMs struggle with numbers.
nick_rocks··on Cutting LLM Costs by 83% with LangSmith
Fair enough! But have you heard of 2 cases?
nick_rocks··on Cutting LLM Costs by 83% with LangSmith
83% cost reduction seems impressive, but is this really an issue for anyone?