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akshay_akula

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About akshay_akula

Hacker in Residence @nqb8 Investor @FlexCapital

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    Comment #49453728

    Agreed. Embeddings are cheap to try and hard to mess up. Most projects can do plain semantic search first and see if they ever need more.

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    Comment #49451564

    Used nitter all the time just to send a clip to friends without making them log in. Losing that pushes me off the platform more than anything else.

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    Comment #49449274

    Yeah the foundation is doing the heavy lifting here. Amazon's track record with technically interesting projects after a reorg is not great.

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    Comment #49361865

    Wondering the same thing but for 48gb M5 Max.

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    Comment #49361807

    This is interesting. I wonder how it could work with something like https://github.com/JustVugg/colibri .

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    Comment #49361773

    If you could combine this with the google oath experience somehow like age verification of my google account? I would def use that.

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    Comment #49361730

    Too much onboarding friction for me to try this out haha. I'm lazy.

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    Comment #49361353

    How much time does this save per unit?