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edwin

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About edwin

urban chicken farmer; data + model wrangler

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    There’s something quietly impressive about getting modern AI ideas to run on old hardware (like OP's project or running LLM inference on Windows 3.1 machines). It’s easy to think a…

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    I’m one of the authors. Our interest is straightforward: If coding agents scaffold a growing share of new apps, their defaults will become prevalent. Not necessarily because they’r…

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    Comment #44155853

    Unlike classic search, which got worse over time due to SEO gamings, AI search might actually improve with scale. If LLMs are trained on real internet discussions (Reddit, forums, …

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    We looked at the same data that Rand Fishkin used and definitely came to a different conclusion.

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    A few take-aways from a study we ran (~800 consumer queries, repeated over a few days): * AI answers shift a lot. In classic search a page-1 spot can linger for weeks; in our runs,…

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    Here you go: https://preview.promptjoy.com/apis/m7oCyL

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    Comment #36333912

    That's not the current OpenAI recipe. Their expectation is that your custom data will be retrieved via a function/plugin and then be subsequently processed by a chat model. Only th…

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    With LLMs, the inputs are highly variable so exact match caching is generally less useful. Semantic caching groups similar inputs and returns relevant results accordingly. So {"dis…

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    Comment #36332971

    New techniques like semantic caching will help. This is the modern era's version of building a performant social graph.

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    BTW: Here's a more performant version (fewer tokens) https://preview.promptjoy.com/apis/jNqCA2 that uses a smaller example but will still generate pretty good results.

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    Thanks. We find few-shot learning to be more effective overall. So we are generating additional examples from the provided example.

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    Comment #36332155

    For those who want to test out the LLM as API idea, we are building a turnkey prompt to API product. Here's Simon's recipe maker deployed in a minute: https://preview.promptjoy.com…

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    This is an exciting emerging space with folks (including multiple YC companies) tackling the problem from different directions. I helped compile a list here: https://medium.com/@vi…

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    http://news.mit.edu/2016/how-cancer-cells-fuel-their-growth-... - this more recent study theorizes that amino acids, rather than glucose, supply most building blocks for tumor cell…

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    I believe USDC has a blacklist of "forbidden addresses" - this is in contrast with some other compliant ERC20s that have whitelists instead. To redeem USD from USDC (meaning withdr…

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    Comment #17493604

    DappRadar is a useful but ultimately hand-curated list. For a more comprehensive look, https://blockspur.com/ethereum_contracts/transactions ranks every Ethereum smart contract by …

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    Greg Galanos (founder of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrowerks ) and his associate Mark B Johnson (Apple alum).

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    Comment #7752139

    Last year, my 8-year-old kids and their classmates designed and hand-built (eventually with dowels instead of screws) their own chairs at their amazing SF school. See http://www.sf…