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nikhil896

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nikhil896··on Show HN: Compliant-LLM: Audit AI Agents for Compliance with NIST AI RMF
This is super useful!
nikhil896··on Show HN: R2R – Open-source framework for production-grade RAG
Cool! I enjoyed speaking with you about our RAG pipeline for call transcripts a week or so back. Will check out the launch
nikhil896··on You are never taught how to build quality software
It starts mattering more for consumer software when you reach mass scale. Somewhat hard-to-find bugs at the scale of hundreds of millions of users (like a social media company), turn into bugs faced by hundreds of thousands of users.

But at that scale (in my experience), QA is up front and center and is typically a core pillar of engineering orgs.

nikhil896··on MLX: An array framework for Apple Silicon
"import mlx as torch"
nikhil896··on Ask HN: Why is it taken for granted that LLM models will keep improving?
My counter-point to this is that babies are born with a sort of basic pre-trained LLM. Humans are born with our analogical weights & biases in our brains partly optimized to learn language, math, etc. Before pre-training an LLM, the weights & biases of their analogical brain are initialized with random values. Training on the internet can IMO be seen as a kind of "pre-training"
nikhil896··on LLM Visualization
This is by far the best resource I've seen to understand LLMs. Incredibly well done! Thanks for this awesome tool
nikhil896··on Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
My friends and I are working on a managed IAP backend for consumable purchases.

https://purchasepoint.landen.co/

We've made a few apps in the past that monetize with consumable purchases (specifically things like virtual currency, extra swipes for a dating app, etc.) and realized the backend we wrote each time for storing user inventory after making an in-app purchase was almost identical. PurchasePoint handles the details of Apple StoreKit and Google IAB transactions to track user inventory for you.