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Re: Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny language models?

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when i feel like casually listening to something, instead of netflix/hulu/whatever, i'll run a ~3b model (qwen 2.5 or llama 3.2) and generate and audio stream of water cooler office gossip. (when it is up, it runs here: https://water-cooler.jothflee.com ). some of the situations get pretty wild, for the office :)

I love it. It's a shame the voices aren't just a little bit more realistic. There's some good models and tts around now I wonder if you could upgrade it?

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny language models?

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I built an Excel Add-In that allows my girlfriend to quickly filter 7000 paper titles and abstracts for a review paper that she is writing [1]. It uses Gemma 2 2b which is a wonderful little model that can run on her laptop CPU. It works surprisingly well for this kind of binary classification task. The nice thing is that she can copy/paste the titles and abstracts in to two columns and write e.g. "=PROMPT(A1:B1, "If…

Can someone hack this together as pure matrix multiplication?

Like either as table in the background or as regular script?

On most computers you can't compile or add add-ons without administrative rights and LLM Chat sites are blocked to prevent usage of company data.

It should run on native Excel or GSheets.

I mean, pure without compilation, just like the do the matrix calculations here straight in Excel without admin rights:

Lesson 1: Demystifying how LLMs work, from architecture to Excel

https://youtu.be/FyeN5tXMnJ8

As far as i know in GSheet the scripts also run on the Google Servers and are not limited by the local computer power. So there larger models could be deployed.

Someone can hack this into Excel/GSheet?

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny language models?

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Android app that forwards to a Python service on remote workstation over MQTT. I can make a Show HN if people are interested.

I am so SO interested, please make a Show HN

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42796496

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny language models?

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I have a mini PC with an n100 CPU connected to a small 7" monitor sitting on my desk, under the regular PC. I have llama 3b (q4) generating endless stories in different genres and styles. It's fun to glance over at it and read whatever it's in the middle of making. I gave llama.cpp one CPU core and it generates slow enough to just read at a normal pace, and the CPU fans don't go nuts. Totally not productive or really…

Do you find that it actually generates varied and diverse stories? Or does it just fall into the same 3 grooves? Last week I tried to get an LLM (one of the recent Llama models running through Groq, it was 70B I believe) to produce randomly generated prompts in a variety of styles and it kept producing cyberpunk scifi stuff. When I told it to stop doing cyberpunk scifi stuff it went completely to wild west.

https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1i615u1/the_fir...

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny language models?

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Tracking, tracking cookies, banners etc. are a choice done by the website. There are browser addons for making it simpler, though. The transparency requirements and consent for collecting all kinds of PII (this is the regulation) actually is a great innovation.

I think I'd rather see cookie notices handled by a browser API with a common UI, where the default is always "No." Provide that common UI in a popover accessed in the address bar, or a side pane in the browser itself. If a user logs in or does something requiring cookies that would otherwise prevent normal functionality, prompt them with a Permissions box if they haven't already accepted it in the usual (optional) UI…

There isn't any way EU didn't knew this was possible and is a better choice. There already was DNT header that they can regulate. It also knew the harm to ad industry.

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny language models?

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I had an LLM create a playlist for me. I’m tired of the bad playlists I get from algorithms, so I made a specific playlist with an Llama2 based on several songs I like. I started with 50, removed any I didn’t like, and added more to fill in the spaces. The small models were pretty good at this. Now I have a decent fixed playlist. It does get “tired” after a few weeks and I need to add more to it. I’ve never been able…

Interesting! I wrote a prompt for something similar[1], but I use Claude Sonnet for it. I wonder how a small model would handle it. Time to test, I guess. [1]: https://git.sr.ht/~jamesponddotco/llm-prompts/tree/trunk/dat...

This prompt is a lot more complex than what I did. I don’t recall my exact prompt but it was something like, “Generate a list of 25 songs that I may like if I like Girl is on my Mind by the Black Keys.”

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny language models?

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I think I'd rather see cookie notices handled by a browser API with a common UI, where the default is always "No." Provide that common UI in a popover accessed in the address bar, or a side pane in the browser itself. If a user logs in or does something requiring cookies that would otherwise prevent normal functionality, prompt them with a Permissions box if they haven't already accepted it in the usual (optional) UI…

There isn't any way EU didn't knew this was possible and is a better choice. There already was DNT header that they can regulate. It also knew the harm to ad industry.

There isn't any rule that requires websites to use a cookie banner. Your required to obtain explicit consent before reading/setting any cookies that aren't strictly necessary. The web came up with the cookie banner.

Google could've implemented a consent API in Chrome, but they didn't. Guess why.

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