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Xyra
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About Xyra
xyra@exopriors.com
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Comment #48899164
making the internet sql queryable, crawling, cleaning, indexing, embedding many sources into source-aware schemas, solving contention problem with free-floating pricing. Currently …
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Comment #46472511
Hetzner, Postgres, Rust, SvelteKit
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Comment #46472479
What did you think?
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Comment #46472473
emailed you, and it's https://venmo.com/u/XyraSinclair .
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Comment #46457711
We can iterate fast with understanding useful paradigms of vector manipulation. Yesterday I added `debias_vector(axis, topic)` and l2_normalization guidance.
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Comment #46457566
Thank you! I got the idea December 3, and initially released it December 19.
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Comment #46457285
I'm raising at least $175k and doing a serious startup.
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Comment #46457199
Thanks, that's very interesting.
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Comment #46457155
~300 token chunks right now. Have other exciting embedding strategies in the works.
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Comment #46450941
The scale is there. I'm scraping, cleaning, token efficientizing dozens of sources every single hour. The lack of monies for embedding everything was a temporary problem.
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Comment #46450880
in the direction of "empowering the public with new capabilities they didn't have before", Scry offers, with the copy and paste of a prompt and talking with an agent: 1) Full reado…
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Comment #46450330
Thank you! I'll be getting millions more quality, embedded documents, it'll be here just getting more useful.
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Comment #46450315
Thank you!
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Comment #46450191
You submit a SQL query to periodically run, we run it and store the results. As we ingest more documents (dozens of sources are being ingested every day), we run it again. If there…
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Comment #46450166
Maybe more actually, server costs and API credits for my agent-coordination research are expensive.
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Comment #46449765
Exactly, people want precision and control sometimes. Also it's very hard to beat SQL query planners when you have lots of material views and indexes. Like this is a lot more power…
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Comment #46448840
Thank you, I've started ingestion operations of pubmed.
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Comment #46448826
What is hyperbole? We are collectively experiencing a software intelligence explosion (people are shipping good software at prolific rates now due to Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.2-Codex-xhi…
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Comment #46447981
I've since improved it, and also discovered a new method of vector composition I have added as a first-class primitive: debias_vector(axis, topic) removes the projection of axis on…
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Comment #46447918
Yes, thanks for explaining it.
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Comment #46447763
That sounds great, thanks, I emailed you.
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Comment #46447691
I'm giving you, the user, the easiest ability you've most likely ever had to explore embedding space yourself. Embeddings are tricky and can mislead, but they do often compose surp…
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Comment #46447545
That would be amazing! Yes, contact@exopriors.com.
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Comment #46447470
I could make it open-source as soon as I have $5k to my name. I've been in survival mode frankly for a long time.
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Comment #46447427
I mean I've been living off of $1700/month for a while in Berkeley. I have been trying hard the last 6 weeks to raise angel investment, and am moving to Thailand in a few days to h…