Re:Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny language ...
by afro88 on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @03:38AM
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How accurate are the classifications?
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Re:Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny language ...
by kaspermarstal on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @04:02AM
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I don't know. This paper [1] reports accuracies in the 97-98% range on a similar task with more powerful models. With Gemma 2 2b the accuracy will certainly be lower.
[1] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10.01.24314702v...
Re:Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny language ...
by indolering on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @06:24AM
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Y'all definitely need to cross validate a small number of samples by hand. When I did this kind of research, I would hand validate to at least P < .01.
Re:Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny language ...
by kaspermarstal on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @06:59AM
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She and one other researcher has manually classified all 7000 papers as per standard protocol. Perhaps for the next article they will measure how this tool agreed with them against them and include it in the protocol if good enough.
Re:Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny language ...
by beernet on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @07:26AM
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> I don't know.
HN in a nutshell: I've built some cool tech but have no idea if it is helpful or even counter productive...
Re:Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny language ...
by rasmus1610 on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @08:26AM
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Sometimes people just like to build stuff for the sake of it.
Re:Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny language ...
by jajko on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @08:53AM
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Almost like hackers, doing shit just for the heck of it because they can (mostly)
Re:Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny language ...
by corobo on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @09:16AM
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Real HN in a nutshell: People who don't build stuff telling people who do build stuff that the thing they built is useless :P
It's a hacker forum, let people hack!
If anything have a dig at OP for posting the thread too soon before the parent commenter has had the chance to gather any data, haha
Re:Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny language ...
by greenavocado on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @10:51AM
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Just because you can, doesn't mean you should
Re:Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny language ...
by corobo on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @11:03AM
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If you're building a dinosaur sanctuary sure
Re:Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny language ...
by stackghost on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @12:53PM
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Or an Internet surveillance-capitalism panopticon.
Re:Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny language ...
by Breza on Friday January 24, 2025 @01:15PM
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Great attitude! I recently built a tool for my wife that uses an LLM to automate a task. Is it production ready? Definitely not. But it saves her time even in its current state.
Re:Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny language ...
by sidcool on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @11:48AM
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Sometimes it's the joy of creation. Utility and optimization come later. It's fun. Like a hobby.
Re:Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny language ...
by kaspermarstal on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @12:04PM
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I am not going to claim or report any kind of accuracy, especially with such a small model and such a specific, context dependent use case. It is the user’s responsibility to cross validate if it’s accurate enough for their use case and upgrade model or use another approach if not.
Re:Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny language ...
by jbs789 on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @12:40PM
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A user buys a car because it gets them from point A to point B. I get what you’re saying though - we are earlier along the adoption curve for these models and more responsibility sits with the user. Over time the expectations will no doubt increase.
Re:Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny language ...
by dzamo_norton on Friday January 24, 2025 @02:23AM
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Offer a 100% money back guarantee if the user finds that the software is not fit for purpose :)