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inertiatic

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About inertiatic

Software developer. You can reach me at inertiatichn at gmail dot com.

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    Comment #47416782

    It's clear it means that there's a large overlap in titles and they are available in better quality on the PC platform?

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    Comment #47241623

    >We now have a tool that can be useful in some narrow domains in some narrow cases. I get being reserved about where this goes, but saying something like this is quite insane at th…

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    Comment #47173143

    >We are essentially offloading our moral responsibility to a black box that cannot be held accountable. We already did it with companies, buddy!

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    Comment #45892211

    Here you go https://github.com/apache/lucene/pull/656 - no need to do anything from the user side to trigger it as far as I know.

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    Comment #45892111

    Lucene and ES implement a shortcut for filters that are restrictive enough. Since it's already optimized for figuring out if something falls into your filter set, you first determi…

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    Comment #44335551

    You know, humans pick up hobbies like cycling or running which they do consistently for years, listen to specific music genres or even electronic music which is mostly just a beat,…

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    Comment #43763962

    >An engineer starts at $200/hr Starts?!

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    Comment #43682566

    >I'm still looking for a systematic approach to make a hybrid search (combined full-text with embedding vectors). Start off with ES or Vespa, probably. ES is not hard at all to get…

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    Comment #43614400

    I don't know how this is something related to AI - you could polish and embellish your resume before LLMs too, I'm fairly sure. I guess this gets the clicks. Not being to remember …

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    Comment #43599603

    4.8b words on English Wikipedia. Knowledge cutoff of 6 months. A valid use case is to search across Wikipedia and ground your answers. Trivially proves that RAG is still needed.

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    Comment #43323399

    I use Firefox as my main browser and it's not a viable alternative to Chrome if you have the very common usage pattern of keeping tens of tabs open.

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    Comment #42825304

    >Interacting with this model is just supplying your data over to an adversary with unknown intents Skynet?

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    Comment #42416088

    People wait for things all the time and if it can take away the hassle or driving your kids somewhere, maintaining multiple vehicles for multiple family members etc. I'd bet that i…

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    Comment #41274653

    Lucene which is what ES builds upon is a library with bindings in languages other than Java, and it's Apache licensed.

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    Comment #41072025

    Didn't we have multiple open-weight frontier model announcements?

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    Comment #39249445

    >I find it really challenging to talk with people who have completely separated their work from their emotional being. For me, work is part of life and it should be a meaningful on…

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    Comment #39104958

    >Solved to the point that squeezing a bit more recall out of vector retrieval isn't the problem anymore. I think this is a bit of a strawman. I don't think recall is the main point…

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    Comment #39104269

    I do, and it's very very rough around the edges to be honest. Lots of things broken, things are even breaking between releases suddenly in unexpected places. Or at least, I'm used …

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    Comment #38984244

    The fact that the stats that drive this could be weighted in any arbitrary way makes the overall rankings pretty worthless in my eyes. And looking at the top 10 vs bottom 10 kind o…

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    Comment #37878754

    Brand new laptop so haven't got a chance to really get a good sense of an average. I think depending on the workload I got 9-12 hours thus far.

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    Comment #37867843

    I'm on a 6850U Ryzen Windows machine and it's really smooth. Previously I too was using an 11th gen XPS 13 but on Linux, where battery was approximately 2 hours long. This machine …

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    Comment #36845425

    If you're making $200/hour, you probably don't share a lot of the problems other people have around buying goods of all sorts. Furthermore, you're likely to go shopping with friend…

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    Comment #36833896

    >an average call center employee can cost $30 for a complex customer question How? I've worked in a call center where big companies outsource their customer support in Eastern Euro…