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apwheele
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About apwheele
Personal blog at https://andrewpwheeler.com/
Consulting at https://crimede-coder.com/
Large Language Models for Mortals: A Practical Guide for Analysts (book), https://crimede-coder.com/blogposts/2026/LLMsForMortals
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Show HN: VerusCite, a tool to check for hallucinations in academic articles
Hello HackerNews -- I have created an application that verifies citations. Main motivation is to make checking for hallucinated citations in academic papers simpler/faster. Can sig…
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Comment #49209124
I cannot read this article, but this may be partly confused what this function by Carbyne does. If there is a flood of critical systems, it just plays an auto message "If this is a…
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Show HN: VerusCite, a tool to check for hallucinations in academic articles
Hello HackerNews -- I have created an application that verifies citations. Main motivation is to make checking for hallucinated citations in academic papers simpler/faster. Can sig…
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Comment #49171241
My money is on they used agentic AI coding tools to help set up all the metrics/experiments with traditional models.
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Comment #49171029
My experience like this was for a data scientist position at Facebook in 2022. So the question was something like, here is a table of predicted probabilities for credit card transa…
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Comment #49149622
An app to verify citations in peer review journals, https://veruscite-data.com that is, to identify when papers have hallucinated references can see an example of results at https:…
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Comment #49122061
It is in alpha (hoping to do Show HN in a few weeks), but for those interested I am working on an application to do this, https://veruscite-data.com/ Most of the folks on HN will b…
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Comment #49082578
So I agree with the general geist of this, a few counter-examples though: If you have the raw log-probs, I show how to use conformal inference to set false-positive or recall rates…
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Comment #49013150
If you look at the raster image ChatGPT generated, that is fine. It is just this example (and other simple SVG icons I have asked for) result in pretty bad SVGs. It just makes me h…
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Comment #49011992
So this is not my experience at all for asking about simple SVG icons for web-pages. Here is one of the examples I have tried for in the past, make a simple cartoon SVG knife for a…
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Comment #48995732
Not an open source, but I discuss it in my book with examples for OpenAI/Anthropic/Gemini, https://crimede-coder.com/blogposts/2026/LLMsForMortals . All of the models, you need to …
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Comment #48957747
Just as even a counterpoint to this, I have asked the LLMs to attempt to generate SVG icons for websites. Even though I have requested things much simpler than a Pelican, they have…
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Comment #48946806
I think this is a good meta-lesson for Kaggle. When you have objective metrics to hill-climb towards, AI can do quite well. When you just phone it in and rely on LLM as a Judge, th…
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Comment #48817279
Agree with the web search point. (I would like for Perplexity to start to offer more models out of the box integrated, like they do now with OpenAI/Gemini models.)
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Comment #48816409
Processing 500 retrieved chunks here (probably with an additional LLM) will also add a bit of latency (not shown in these graphs!). So for user facing apps, that scenario is probab…
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Comment #48803770
If I may shamelessly suggest my own book for those looking for a more basic intro to calling the APIs, including a chapter devoted to agentic patterns across the different SDKs (op…
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Comment #48775610
Off topic, but Simon's Pelican on a bike SVG makes me think they are using that is the current models. I ask for much simpler SVG icons periodically (to insert into webpages, map i…
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Comment #48760043
I read these and think it is just the jagged edge. I do not doubt your personal experience, I have used Composer 2.5 (via Grok and the credits I get with my X premium account) the …