bendyBus
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11 months ago
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on: AI agents: Less capability, more reliability, please
"If your task can be expressed as a workflow, build a workflow". 100% true but the thing all these 'agent pattern' or 'workflow' diagrams miss is that real tasks require back-and-forth with a user, not just a Rube Goldberg machine that gets triggered in response to a _single user message_.
What you need is not 'tool use' but something like 'process use'. This is what we did at Rasa, giving you a declarative way to define multi-step processes. An LLM lets you have a fluent conversation, but the execution of the task is pre-defined and deterministic:
https://rasa.com/docs/learn/concepts/calm/
The fact that every framework starts with a `while` loop around an LLM and then duct-tapes on some "guardrails" betrays a lack of imagination.
bendyBus
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2 years ago
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on: Show HN: Dlt – Python library to automate the creation of datasets
This is nice. Pulling data from an API and putting it in a SQL database should be a simple everyday task but the tools for this are 99% massive overkill. Great to see a simple library for a simple job.
bendyBus
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8 years ago
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on: Rasa Core: Throw away your state machine and use ML-powered dialogue
The Rasa Core framework has been in development for 1.5 years, so we're incredibly excited to launch it & make it accessible to everyone.
We wanted to make Machine-Learning based dialogue usable for as many developers as possible. There's so much great research in conversational AI but very little that developers can actually use to build bots and voice apps.
One of the big challenges was making Rasa Core useful on day one, when you have no training data. We came up with the interactive learning approach, where you teach the system by talking to it and providing feedback. Rasa lets you scale from nothing up to a robust dialogue system trained on a large number of real conversations.
We're so happy with the community that's developed around Rasa NLU, and so we're really, really excited to see what people build with Core.
bendyBus
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9 years ago
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on: Rasa NLU: Open-source bot tool for natural language understanding
we could integrate with other backends, including NLTK & coreNLP. The stanford stuff is under GPL though, prefer to promote startup-friendly licenses.
bendyBus
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9 years ago
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on: Rasa NLU: Open-source bot tool for natural language understanding
yes! Docker Cloud isn't quite working yet but the Dockerfile should work :)
bendyBus
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9 years ago
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on: Rasa NLU: Open-source bot tool for natural language understanding
currently there are no built-in entities like dates, times, locations etc. But really keen to set up a way for users to share models, and that would definitely include these things as well
bendyBus
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9 years ago
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on: Rasa NLU: Open-source bot tool for natural language understanding
yeah you're quite right, intents are built with a bag of words model & doesn't take order into account. Entity extraction does though. If you find a case where word order is really important for getting intents right I'd love to know about it! We could find a way to make that work.
bendyBus
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10 years ago
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on: Show HN: Cartman – a slackbot to remind your teammates to give you input
I'm gonna clean up the code a little bit and then make it public. It's written in scala using Play! framework and Akka.
bendyBus
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11 years ago
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on: Show HN: Treev – Search Bar for Dropbox, Box, Google Drive, and Trello (Chrome)
and aloo how was the search quality? We noticed delays for up to 0.5s today because of heavy traffic. When things get quieter that should improve dramatically. Cool input on the onboarding. We found it took quite a bit of work to make a really slick onboarding flow, but there's clearly still room for improvement.
bendyBus
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11 years ago
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on: Show HN: Treev – Search Bar for Dropbox, Box, Google Drive, and Trello (Chrome)
will check that out! thanks
bendyBus
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11 years ago
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on: Images that fool computer vision raise security concerns
Everything non-linear is linear to a first-order Taylor expansion. Hence why you can evolve small perturbations, the same thing is used for explicit numerical integration of non-linear equations.
bendyBus
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11 years ago
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on: A not-so-obvious reason to apply to YC
I am indeed concentrating on the types of companies YC would invest in. I don't know anything about lifestyle businesses but what you say sounds reasonable.
bendyBus
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11 years ago
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on: A not-so-obvious reason to apply to YC
I would assert that a recent graduate who wants to be an entrepreneur is mostly doing themselves a disservice by studying those things. It focuses your thoughts on how to run a business rather than how to solve a problem or turn an industry on its head.
Sure, many of those things could come in handy in the future - but there are far more difficult things which you also have to learn "as you go".
bendyBus
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11 years ago
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on: A not-so-obvious reason to apply to YC
Point taken. Education is of course a valuable thing - but a year's worth of instruction on entrepreneurship after you've already got a degree?
bendyBus
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11 years ago
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on: A not-so-obvious reason to apply to YC
I would suspect that this is non-obvious to people who view YC as a structured, semi-guaranteed route to success, the way many people view a degree from a prestigious university. I know many people who are 'interested' in startups and crave some kind of validation that they are a real entrepreneur before sinking their teeth in. My university even offers a 1 year diploma in entrepreneurship. Madness! As though formal training will help you make the hard decisions you face as a founder.
bendyBus
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11 years ago
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on: The Problem with Job Titles
(1) Surely culture and technology stack are reasonably independent of the dimensions considered here
(2) Wouldn't you agree that this asks an important question which is currently absent from the hiring conversation?
(3) Even if the spider plot is an imperfect representation, isn't it a helpful starting point for a conversation between a potential employer and employee?
(4) I'm not sure what your concern is about toy models and management. All models are toy models, the only thing which matters is whether they lead you to ask the right questions.
bendyBus
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11 years ago
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on: The Problem with Job Titles
Good point, but I could imagine certain shapes becoming very recognisable after a while. Ensuring the ordering is such that a 5-1-5-1-5...pattern is unlikely, since these spiky shapes will all look the same. And yes the angles don't carry any extra information, but they are a helpful guide to the eye. I can see where you're coming from, but thinking about these plots a bit more carefully I think you are too dismissive.
bendyBus
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11 years ago
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on: YC Open-Source Sales Agreement
I've had to spend money at various points getting documents drafted which, like this, are pretty much cut & paste anyway. I would just like to see MORE of this. Recently came across lawbite
https://www.lawbite.co.uk/ which looks useful at least for UK based companies. Haven't used the service so cannot endorse. Basic employment contracts, vesting schedules, t&cs, keep them coming!
bendyBus
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11 years ago
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on: Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces
What can I say? our bots just really hit it off.
bendyBus
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11 years ago
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on: Use ReactJS to Build Native Apps
Would you be willing to elaborate re my reply to colinramsay?
