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Dot – A standalone open source app meant for easy use of local LLMs and RAG

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Re: Dot – A standalone open source app meant for easy use of local LLMs and RAG

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Rag is limited in that sense. Since the max amount of data you can send is still limited by the token amount that the LLM can process. But if all you wanted is a search engine that's a bit easier. The problem is often that a huge wiki installation etc will have a lot of outdated data etc. Which will still be an issue for an llm. And if you had fixed the data you might as well just search for the things you need no?

I think it depends of what they want. Like a search is indeed an easy solution, but if they want a summarization or a generated, straight answer so then things get a little bit harder.

A solution that combines RAG and function calling could span the correct depth, but yeah, the context depth is what will determine usefulness for user interaction.

Re: Dot – A standalone open source app meant for easy use of local LLMs and RAG

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Not sure if this helps but this is from tinkering with Mistral 7B on both my M1 Pro (10 Core, 16 GB RAM) and WSL 2 w/ CUDA (Acer Predator 17, i7-7700HK, GTX 1070 Mobile, 16GB DRAM, 8GB VRAM). - Got 15 - 18 Tokens / sec on WSL 2 with slightly higher on M1. Can think of that to about 10 - 15 words per second. Both were using GPU. Haven’t tried CPU on M1 but on WSL 2 it was low single digits - super slow for anything pr…

how does 7b match up to Mistral 8x7B? coming from chatgpt4 it was a huge breath of fresh air to not deal with the judeo-christian biased censorship. i think this is the ideal localllama setup--uncensored, unbiased, unlimited (only by hardware) LLM+RAG

I haven’t seen on how it fares on uncensored use-cases, but from what I see Q5_K variants of Mistral 7B are not very far from Mixtral 8x7B (the latter requires 64GB of RAM which I don’t have).

Tried open-webui yesterday with Ollama for spinning up some of these. It’s pretty good.

Re: Dot – A standalone open source app meant for easy use of local LLMs and RAG

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Tried giving it a folder with a bunch of .pdfs, it takes soooo long to index them (and there's no progress bar or status indicator anywhere), and once I ask a question it's just stuck on "Dot is typing" for an hour. Maybe add an option to stream the output, at least I understand if it's doing something or not?
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