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applgo443

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    Comment #43286412

    What's the simple explanation for why these VLM OCRs hallucinate but previous version of OCRs don't?

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    Comment #42959756

    Why are traditional OCRs better in terms of hallucination and confidence scores? Can we use logprobs of LLM as confidence scores?

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    Comment #40763627

    When i deploy a webapp on azure, it expects me to put env variables in a file or their own tool (key value fields) where you can add env variables one by one. Is there a way to use…

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    Comment #38080612

    If it's 5 common crawls, isn't data across multiple common crawls mostly similar?

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    Comment #37128499

    Is ETL/ELT same as writing SQL scripts and periodically executing them? I assumed there's more to it.

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    Comment #36995188

    May be rewriting user's description might help you match code better? Similar to the prompt engineering for previous era GPT completion models.

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    Comment #36995182

    How do you approach the problem of what files to look into to fix a bug? Just embeddings doesn't seem to cut it.

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    Comment #36992851

    How is your experience with Modal? And I'm curious to know more about your costs of deployment and running on Modal.

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    Comment #36992839

    Did you consider first asking LLM to explain what a code snippet does and use that instead? It'd significantly increase the costs though.

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    Comment #36649232

    I saw your comment, got curious, and looked at a lot of your old comments. Lots of interesting insights - Thanks for sharing them. If you don't mind me asking, what do you do? I'm …

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    Comment #36482585

    Used OpenAI APIs before but not function calling. What's the use of function calling in this example?

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    Comment #36424463

    How does the confidence scores work?

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    Comment #36423985

    I’m a researcher in the space exploring few ideas with the intention of starting up. Would love to reach out to you and talk to you. Is there a way I can contact you? My email is b…

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    Comment #36412537

    I think we can detect atleast a few things like PII leaks etc. Don't you think those things alone are valuable?

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    Comment #36410242

    They mention the contextual stack is is relatively underdeveloped. Any idea on what can be improved there?

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    Comment #36409870

    What do you mean by firewall layer? What tools do you use here?

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    Ask HN: What does it take to be a CTO?

    Hi, A friend of mine and I are thinking of starting a company together. My friend is a sales/marketing person (CEO), and I'm the (only) technical person (CTO). I want to know what …

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    Comment #35793240

    Wow, if you're competing with ChatGPT, that gives all other startups out there hope that competitors aren't something to be super scared about :)

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    Comment #35433109

    Location: SF Bay Area Remote: Preferred Willing to relocate: Depends on opportunity Technologies: Python, Pytorch, Tensorflow, Jax, machine learning, deep learning, language modeli…

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    Comment #34553510

    Why are there so many weather APIs? What's going on here?

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    Ask HN: As an engineer, how to learn handling interpersonal conflicts?

    What's the best way for engineers to know about generic workplace interpersonal conflicts and how to resolve them? Things like dealing with colleague who steals your work, microman…

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    Ask HN: What Happened to Nike AR Fit?

    Why aren't there good tools to measure your feet size when you buy shoes online? It should be a relatively simple Computer Vision problem. On a relate note, Nike launched this and …

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    Comment #32053573

    I considered doing this - take screenshots of your screen constantly, OCR them and index them. It's fairly simple. However, there are some problems - OCR constantly running in the …

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    Comment #32008460

    Man, this is exactly what I did at a previous job. We had a massive Query engine as a part of our BI product. I've recoded the entire sorting algorithm to use variadic templates to…