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emschwartz
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About emschwartz
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This link from Reddit worked for me: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/opinion/ai-hype-tech-layo...
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Comment #49104391
Yeah that makes sense. I took the optimizations of my hamming distance library to a bit of an insane level. I wrote this about the first round https://emschwartz.me/unnecessary-opt…
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This works especially well if your embedding model was trained to perform well with quantized embeddings. Binary + hamming distance = incredibly fast. This post is from 2024 but I …
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Definitely put your finger on what I’ve been feeling. > What AI did was give every engineer a small team of tireless, fast, occasionally-wrong direct reports. And with the team cam…
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Comment #48446287
Hilarious. Nice work
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Comment #48434938
Could you put some screenshots in the readme? Thanks!
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Comment #48231599
If you haven’t read Entangled Life: How Fungi Shape Our World, I can’t recommend it enough. https://www.merlinsheldrake.com/entangled-life
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I’ve been using MixedBread, which is a pretty old model at this point. Recently, I tried comparing it to some newer models and was disappointed that the results weren’t dramaticall…
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