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a5huynh

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About a5huynh

Technologist, computer scientist, explorer, and coffee aficionado.

Currently:

* Building agentic commerce

Previously:

* data & AI @ customer support startup

* founder, AI agents for eDiscovery startup (raised pre-seed)

* founding team, chief data science guy @ insurance startup (made it to Series A before being acquired).

* manager & turning coffee into code @ NLP machine learning startup).

* founder, CTO @ sustainability startup (raised seed money)

Before That:

* Machine Learning Ph.D Student @ UC San Diego.

* Graduate Student Researcher on a National Geographic Expedition.

* Stripe CTF Finalist

* 3 time Yahoo! Hackathon winner. Global Hackathon Finalist.

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/a5huynh; my proof: https://keybase.io/a5huynh/sigs/Df-98a5Ya5JkscNzgBwy5xxR-P6vhb8Rf6aM4zhr7y4 ]

Recent public activity

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    Side-note, if anyone wants to really dig into all the data available about bills (including votes, attachments, etc.), this is a great place to start: https://github.com/unitedstat…

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    Not op but one my favorites is: https://www.youtube.com/@Settledrs Very entertaining to watch and explains things so even non players can understand the sheer absurdity of some of …

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    Comment #40094282

    I don't think its too misleading because in both cases that's how many vehicles are affected at very moment by the recall. Toyota shipped/sold more as mentioned in the article, but…

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    Comment #40088585

    Just to add context since I was curious about "Toyota had it wheels literally falling off". That was a recall from 2022 ( https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/06/business/toyota-bz4x-wheel-…

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    Comment #39305635

    This reminds me of Floneum ( https://github.com/floneum/floneum ), this open-sourced tool for graph-based workflows using local LLMs. More for personal use and not quite as polishe…

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    Comment #39266589

    I've been using a combo of LLMs + live transcription to build a passive assistant that keeps track of talking points and can pull out data/tasks from a conversation you're having (…

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    Comment #38166310

    It's in San Francisco. It was announced Sept. 6th on their blog: https://openai.com/blog/announcing-openai-devday

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    Comment #36977147

    A problem with fine tuning based on organization data is that if the underlying data changes, you'd need to fine-tune the model again each change. This might be okay for one-off ch…

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    Comment #36883885

    If you want to play around with Stable Diffusion XL: https://clipdrop.co

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    Comment #36577491

    Hey HN! We've been building a semantic search engine for audio content focusing on podcasts. We're getting an early version for feedback. You can search or ask questions about a pa…

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    Comment #36072884

    If you're running the text-generation-webui ( https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui ) it has the ability to train LoRAs. It'll require a beefy GPU but I've seen some f…

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    Comment #35456771

    I recently found this list of models that works with llama.cpp: https://rentry.org/nur779 (with dl links, albeit given llama's licensing gray area, use at your own risk) The latest…

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    Comment #35435486

    As an alternative for purely local LLMs, I've been having fun with this setup: https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui

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    Comment #35431220

    Note that what they released are the delta weights from the og LLaMa model. To play around with it, you'll need to grab the original LLaMA 13B model and apply the changes. > We rel…

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    Comment #35278639

    You can calculate them yourself as well! huggingface has a great article on this: https://huggingface.co/blog/getting-started-with-embeddings tl;dr, use: https://huggingface.co/sen…

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    Comment #34838055

    I've run into similar issues and found that the `thiserror` crate ( https://crates.io/crates/thiserror ) combined w/ anyhow makes a lot of that pain go away

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    Comment #32599187

    Shameless self-plug, I've been building some similar that you can run locally as an app: https://github.com/a5huynh/spyglass You can define some basic rules & it'll go out and craw…

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    Comment #32447096

    In addition to React/Vue, you have the ability to use Rust client-side frameworks such as Yew[0] or seed[1] for a truly full-stack Rust experience. I've been using Tauri + Yew to b…

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    Comment #32109796

    For those looking for an alternative to that, I've been building a self-hosted search engine that crawls what you want based on a basic set of rules. It can be a list of domains, a…

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    Comment #31898967

    Thank you! Feel free to ping me on Github/Discord if you run into any issues, always looking to make it better :)

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    Comment #31852268

    A bit different, but I've been building something similar that runs locally: https://github.com/a5huynh/spyglass You create some rules for topics you want to index and it'll go out…