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Re: Scramble: Open-Source Alternative to Grammarly

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Post by chaosist »

t-writescode wrote: post #54
too_damn_fast wrote: post #49

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Why would you even say 'please' in a prompt ?

There has been evidence that better responses are sometimes provided with politeness for some LLMs. And some people just try to be polite and it only costs a couple tokens.

I use to say please/thank you to gpt4 in 2023 all the time but it was because I was completely anthropomorphizing the model in various ways.

I suspect it would be just as easy to write a paper that saying please has absolutely no effect on the output. I feel like gpt4 is/was stochastically better on some days and at some hours than others. That might even be wrong though too. The idea that it is provable that "please" has a positive effect on the output is most likely a ridiculous idea.

Re: Scramble: Open-Source Alternative to Grammarly

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Post by singhrac »

chilipepperhott wrote: post #138

While Scramble doesn't seem to respect your privacy, a project I've been working on does. Meet Harper https://github.com/elijah-potter/harper

I think Harper is very cool, and you should sell it better. It's a local-only low latency & static (no Python) LanguageTool alternative. It doesn't use a large language model.

Re: Scramble: Open-Source Alternative to Grammarly

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Post by pixelpoet »

closetkantian wrote: post #122
edweis wrote: post #55

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> I'm always a fan of 'bring your own key' (BYOK) approaches. "Bring your own key" has the same amount of syllables as "BYOK"

If your point is that BYOK is a useless acronym since it has the same number* of syllables, I disagree. Acronyms aren't just for reducing syllable count; they also reduce visual clutter and are easier to read for people who scan text.

My brother from another mother, I thought I was the only one left who distinguishes much from many. (I wish I didn't know that it's technically an initialism not an acronym...)

Re: Scramble: Open-Source Alternative to Grammarly

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Post by fph »

charlie0 wrote: post #137
Technetium wrote: post #125

They proclaim "privacy-respecting" but all your keystrokes go to OpenAI. Horrific and genuinely upsetting. Edit: The author replied to another comment that there is an intent to add local AI. If that is the plan, then fix the wording until it can actually be considered privacy-respecting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41579144

Lol, this was my second thought immediately after my first, which was one of excitement. Hope the author does add a option for local. Wonder how that would work as a Chrome extension. Doesn't seem like a good idea for extensions to be accessing local resources though.

You can self-host Languagetool and use it as a Chrome/Firefox extension. The extension talks to a Languagetool server via HTTP, and takes its address as a configurable option. So you just run the local server, and pass localhost:8080 as the server address.

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Post by dartos »

spmurrayzzz wrote: post #155
Tepix wrote: post #142

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Really? Maybe your models are too small?

The premier open weight models don't even comparatively perform well on the public benchmarks compared to frontier models. And that's assuming at least some degree of benchmark contamination for the open weight models. While I don't think they're completely useless (though its close), calling them fantastic replacements feels like an egregious overstatement of their value. EDIT: Also wanted to note that I think this…

Yeah, in my comparing deepseek coder 2 lite (the best coding model I can find that’ll run on my 4090) to Claud sonnet under aider…

Deep seek lite was essentially useless. Too slow and too low quality edits.

I’ve been programming for about 17 years, so the things I want aider to do are a little more specific than building simple web apps. Larger models are just better at it.

I can run the full deepseek coder model on some cloud and probably get very acceptable results, but then it’s no longer local.

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Post by dontdieych »

dspillett wrote: post #147
dontdieych wrote: post #117

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I've downloaded 'ngrams-en-20150817'. Please drop link that can teach me how to apply ngrams file. Thanks.

I dropped the wrong link in the original post. The instructions for use are at https://dev.languagetool.org/finding-errors-using-n-gram-dat...

Thank you! Got it.

Re: Scramble: Open-Source Alternative to Grammarly

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Post by noduerme »

K0balt wrote: post #90
dotancohen wrote: post #67

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> But if I had to get into the underlying structure, I could. How do you propose to get into the underlying structure of the OpenAPI API? Breach their network and steal their code and models? I don't understand what you're arguing.

I think the relevant analogy here would be to run a local model. There are several tools to easily run local models for a local API. I run a 70b finetune with some tool use locally on our farm, and it is accessible to all users as a local openAI alternative. For most applications it is adequate and data stays on the campus area network.

A more accurate analogy would be, are you capable of finding and correcting errors in the model at the neural level if necessary? Do you have an accurate mental picture of how it performs its tasks, in a way that allows you to predictably control its output, if not actually modify it? If not, you're mostly smashing very expensive matchbox cars together, rather than doing anything resembling programming.

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Post by guappa »

latexr wrote: post #89
guappa wrote: post #84

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I've seen posts of "js interpreter written in 1 line" that was just a script calling node…

Were those being serious? That sounds like it could’ve been a joke/commentary. Then again, there are people who genuinely believe they could trivially rewrite curl. https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/05/20/i-could-rewrite-curl/

Yes I think they were serious, and they used eval() or whatever.

Re: Scramble: Open-Source Alternative to Grammarly

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Post by closetkantian »

pixelpoet wrote: post #163
closetkantian wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If your point is that BYOK is a useless acronym since it has the same number* of syllables, I disagree. Acronyms aren't just for reducing syllable count; they also reduce visual clutter and are easier to read for people who scan text.

My brother from another mother, I thought I was the only one left who distinguishes much from many. (I wish I didn't know that it's technically an initialism not an acronym...)

Hahaha, this comment has me thinking about how I would pronounce it. Bee-yok? Bye-yolk?
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