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Could someone point me towards a good resource for learning how to build a RAG app without llangchain or llamaindex? It's hard to find good information.

> The outcome provably does not exist until you measure it. This is not true. It only provably does not exist in local hidden variables.

I think it was a top level post, but my confidence is low.

Trying to locate a short story that I believe was posted here a few months ago. It took place on a spaceship that contained a digital archive of all of human knowledge. At some poi…

What do I search for to find music/audio like this? It sounds so beautiful.

How does it compare to zapatos? https://jawj.github.io/zapatos/

GrapheneOS for phone

That's not quite true. The function call in question is > ImageInstanceQ[x,"caprine animal",RecognitionThreshold->i/100] I think it's less misleading to say it has a generic image …

Now this is an application of AI that I can get behind!

Highly unlikely? Tim cook literally said in the quote "You can never say never."

What about people who game on their laptop (at home) but don't need to game on the go? In that case an eGPU also sounds like a reasonable choice. They can just leave the eGPU at ho…

> "Critical" has a precise meaning in these kinds of systems; it essentially means when correlation lengths diverge (or, with a finite brain, become the size of the whole). If some…

This is not generally true in my experience. You can buy cheap take-out/counter-service food, or expensive take-out/counter-service food.

3-4 hours every day?! How do you find the time to do that, in addition to medical school? That's 1/4 of the waking hours in a day.

Can someone explain? I can barely parse this quote. Who are the 1P devs? Why does it matter that they didn't notice they had made a minor change? Why were they "tricked"? Edit: I t…

Can you elaborate on what doesn't "ring true" for you? It's an odd statement to make, since these aren't true/false facts we're talking about.

What parts of his work haven't aged well?

Indeed. Interestingly, psychedelics (mushrooms, LSD) work wonderfully for me, but cannabis is typically a bad experience (anxiety, nausea, no attention span, racing thoughts). Ever…

In order to understand the difference, you'd have to have a blinded and unblinded study, and compare the results. Then you could understand the difference between a guess with 90% …

There's still a difference between "guessing" correctly versus actually knowing the truth. It's different from an actually unblinded study even if participants can "guess" correctl…

> knowing ones own neurotype How does one going about finding their neurotype?

Citation needed. They host their source on GitHub [1]. [1]: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea

> I recall from school the equipartition theorem-- 1/2 KT of kinetic energy for each degree of freedom. These things obviously have many degrees of freedom. So wouldn't they be "th…

What's unique about Japan's economy?

OP specifically stated they aren't asking about what tools you use, but rather "what kind of notes are you taking down and how you're organizing your thought"