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4 months ago
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on: My trick for getting consistent classification from LLMs
My "trick" was to divide things into batches (which can be big with LLMs with larger context sizes) and classify the items in each batch, then take the resulting categories from each batch and feed them into an LLM to group semantically similar categories into groups with a representative category for each group. The representative category can be chosen from the group or created by the LLM. This is an over-simplification of the process but that's the gist of it.
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4 months ago
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on: DeepSeek OCR
Language support is not mentioned in the repo.
But from the paper, it offers extensive multilingual support (nearly 100 languages) which is good, but I need to test it to see how it compares to Gemini and Mistral OCR.
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4 months ago
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on: Claude Skills
Claude Skills seem to be the option that offers highest flexibility to add more capabilities at most simplicity. Better than MCP in my opinion. Hope it becomes a standard and get adopted by OpenAI and the rest of labs.
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1 year ago
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on: Exploring Goodreads data: Analysis of 10M books
Good question! I selected the edition with the smallest Goodreads ID¹ that has the publication date and cover photo available. If all editions don't have publication date nor cover photo, then we get the one with the smallest ID.
And you're right, in a few cases, this resulted in getting less widely read editions for some books.
1: Assuming smaller ID means earlier addition to Goodreads' database.
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1 year ago
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on: FastHTML – Modern web applications in pure Python
Hi Jeremy, congratulations for the launch.
How does this compare to Dash?
I've used Dash for many applications, so I'm wondering what are the advantages of FastHTML?
ammar_x
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1 year ago
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on: Ask HN: What are your favourite websites that display a lot of data / tables?
Been looking for such a website to show weather for the whole year like this. Thanks for sharing.
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1 year ago
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on: Ask HN: Most successful example using LLMs in daily work/life?
I have Raycast extensions for GPT and Claude models. Whenever I have a question, the most powerful LLMs in the world are two key strokes away.
This way is easier than going to the browser then ChatGPT tab for example then creating a new chat.
I found myself using LLMs more and getting more out of them because of this frictionless interaction. They've become more of actual "helpful assistants."
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1 year ago
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on: GPT-4o's Memory Breakthrough – Needle in a Needlestack
The article compares GPT-4o to Sonnet from Anthropic. I'm wondering how Opus would perform at this test?
ammar_x
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2 years ago
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on: Reflex – Web apps in pure Python
How does it compare to Plotly Dash?
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2 years ago
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on: Ask HN: What's your go-to platform for written discussions, and why?
Can you explain more? Like which tool do you use for this wiki page? Or is it an internal tool? And do you use it to write meeting notes and then discuss on the same page?
ammar_x
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2 years ago
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on: React, but in Python
How is this different or better than Dash or Streamlit?
ammar_x
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2 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Is it just me or GPT-4's quality has significantly deteriorated lately?
Like many people here have noticed, it's definitely less quality now than before. It's annoying to be honest to reduce the quality significantly without a notice while we are paying the same amount. I'm willing to pay $40 for the original GPT-4, though.
GPT-4 was remarkable 2 months ago. It could handle complex coding tasks and the reasoning was great. Now, it feels like GPT-3. It's sad. I had many things in mind that could have been done with the original GPT-4.
I hope we see real competitors to GPT-4 in terms of coding abilities and reasoning. Absence of real competitors made it a reasonable option for "Open"AI to lobotomize GPT-4 without a notice.
ammar_x
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2 years ago
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on: Ask HN: What's your favorite GPT powered tool?
I couldn't find it on the app store, can you post the link?
ammar_x
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3 years ago
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on: Big data is dead
Well, we have less than 2 TB of data, and although we are running MySQL on a large instance with ~120 GB of RAM, it's extremely slow when dealing with big tables (like a 25 GB table) and that's why we need "big data" tools like BigQuery.
ammar_x
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3 years ago
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on: Ask HN: AI is really exciting but where do I start?
What is Everyprompt? I searched but found nothing relevant.
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3 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Share your personal site
Made with Jekyll and hosted on Github + Netlify. All for free although it received tens of thousands of visits (especially on the YouTube analysis post) without a problem.
https://ammar-alyousfi.com/
ammar_x
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4 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Burned Out. What Now?
> I've burned out twice
When you say "burn out" can you describe what it feels like? Is it like depression?
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4 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Burned Out. What Now?
> Setting up a home gym to lift weights and trying to eat healthier...
Does a treadmill work instead of weight lifting? Curious to know based on your experience.
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4 years ago
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on: How we bootstrapped our SaaS to $1M ARR
This is an inspiring story, thanks for sharing.
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4 years ago
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on: The Boring YouTube
Exactly! These points drive me crazy!
I think YouTube is filled with interesting content but they always choose to recommend the same videos for weeks!
However, their "New to You" section is much better and I think it should be on the home page.
