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j-b

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About j-b

dssjon at gmail dot com

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    Comment #48280218

    Very nice. It'd be cool to have an option to collapse the summary content to skim through everything.

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    If you could add the ability to auto hide the bar and show it on mouseover, kind of like the dock, and also customize the active app color in the bar (it's a little bright for my t…

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    https://boldt.dev

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    Show HN: AroundHere – Location based Wiki/Grokipedia explorer with summary/TTS

    I built AroundHere.app to explore location based Wikipedia and Grokipedia articles with Claude AI summaries and text-to-speech. Search any topic by adding it to the URL: aroundhere…

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    Show HN: Rebuilt Bible search app to run 100% client-side with Transformers.js

    I rebuilt Biblos, my semantic Bible search app, to run entirely in your browser. No more server costs. The main challenge was fitting an accurate text embedding model into browsers…

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    Comment #42743953

    Love these kinds of posts. Tried railway for the first time a few days ago. It was a delightful experience. Great work!

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    Show HN: Client-side vector search with Transformers.js

    I've updated my Bible exploration tool to run entirely in the browser using Transformers.js. Key features: - Semantic search over the entire text using BAAI/bge-large-en-v1.5 embed…

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    Comment #40213844

    At https://chat.lmsys.org/ "gpt2-chatbot is currently unavailable. See our model evaluation policy here."

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    Comment #39595591

    Ran with Opus, 0 temp. Screenshot included (original comment) for reference.

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    Comment #39595138

    I tried Sonnet also, to no avail: To solve this problem, we need to find the number of sisters Sally has. Given information: Sally has 3 brothers. Each brother has 2 sisters. Since…

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    Comment #39594562

    Opus (and all prior Claude models) still do not correctly answer the Sally question, unfortunately: Q: Sally (a girl) has 3 brothers. Each brother has 2 sisters. How many sisters d…

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    Comment #39148857

    Created a simple app to test Gemini here: https://github.com/dssjon/gemini/blob/main/app.py

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    Comment #39147473

    Most likely through this platform: https://console.cloud.google.com/vertex-ai

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    Comment #39146945

    The trick is to access the "bard-jan-24-gemini-pro" model, available in direct chat mode here: https://chat.lmsys.org/ . Significantly better than the prior model.

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    My family is set to fly with Alaska Airlines in a Boeing 737-9 MAX (ETOPS) this April. I'm just wondering about options and what others would do in this scenario. Maybe switch to a…

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    Show HN: Biblos – Semantic Search the Church Fathers

    I'm pleased to present an update to Biblos, a semantic search tool designed for biblical research. This release incorporates instructor-large embeddings to enhance the precision of…

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    I'm pleased to present an update to Biblos, a semantic search tool designed for in-depth Bible study. This release incorporates community suggestions and introduces instructor-larg…

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    Comment #38043518

    Interesting insights, currently using the WEB translation, and plan to expand further. Thanks for the bug report!