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instance

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About instance

Currently CTO at a startup.

https://blog.xa0.de/about

https://github.com/instance01

https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-ratke/

e-mail: whodis@instancedev.com

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    Comment #35939678

    For instance used it in conjunction with llama-index for knowledge management. Created an index for a whole confluence/jira of a mid-sized company, got good results with GPT, but f…

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    Comment #35938173

    I tested on a serious use case and quality was subpar. For real use cases I had to either host the most powerful model you can get (e.g. LLaMA-65B or so) on a cloud machine, which …

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    Comment #35930986

    yea, you're right. It's really pre-MVP. Basically an API in between your user facing input and OpenAI that detects prompt injections and flags them for you so you can abort sending…

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    Comment #35926711

    I've put up something like this as a side project a few weeks ago: https://flamingoo.ai/ Love the term "PAF", I think I'll include this.

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    Comment #35238755

    7B is the number of parameters of the model.

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    Comment #33843377

    I know an amazing IC at a software company I once worked at that I still keep in touch with. He has extremely deep technical knowledge, which you can simply deduct from basically e…

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    Ask HN: PayPal 2-factor utterly broken?

    Is it just me? I just lost our paypal account for my company just by deleting an old phone number in the settings and adding a new one. After logging out there is no way to log bac…

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    Comment #32950892

    Check it out: https://www.bmvi.de/EN/Home/home.html "Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport"

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    Comment #32711933

    To add to this, as a German, the future of Uber does not look great in Europe as well. The taxi lobby is strong here, and I’m sure regulations will come in countries like Germany a…

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    Comment #31776085

    I've been collecting these for the past year - there is a large body of research going into solving optimization problems using quantum computing, and some interesting POC results …

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    Comment #31382202

    Yea, that title is quite something. I thought this was some long lost brother or sister of Mark that has now appeared.

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    Comment #31342747

    I wouldn't say that's a YC-specific issue. Look at Nasdaq, this is a general issue with tech stocks right now, just this immense selling all across the board.

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    Comment #30942278

    https://blog.xa0.de/list My basic blog where I talk about Quantum Computing, Machine Learning, Finance, Business.

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    Comment #30137860

    Putting things in relative like that (e.g. 30% more likely to be murdered) always feels like much - in reality, one doesn't know the variance. This is just putting the averages of …

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    Ask HN: Getting deranked in Google due to a link list?

    Two months ago I posted a list of 61 QUBO formulations and cited every single one (which resulted in 33 links to papers) [0]. After seeing this post get crawled by Google, my traff…

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    Comment #27871406

    Hello HN! This is a SaaS I've built the last few months using Flask and the least amount of JS that is possible. It allows setting up SMS/E-Mail/App alerts for stocks, options and …

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    Comment #27842909

    Is it just me, or is this is super similar to Dirty Cow [0] in terms of severity? Insane find!! [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_COW

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    Comment #27791593

    Since there are quality differences between data providers, it would be good to know where you source the data from. Is it from Yahoo Finance (just for example)? Or is it really di…

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    Comment #27791576

    The prices don't seem up to date.. Check $FB for instance, shows 349.27, when in reality it closed at 350.42.

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    Comment #27563133

    I've checked the original source [0]: You've guessed right. They specifically said they won't be introducing/creating new gas models. Nowhere do they say that they won't sell old i…

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    Comment #27486123

    I was annoyed by the seemingly over-engineered tools for screen tracking, so I wrote one myself in ~50 LOC, which simply uses ffmpeg to create a screenshot every X seconds in a ver…