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Re:Our next-generation model: Gemini 1.5 on Thursday February 15, 2024 @04:54PM (#39389578)
> The 10M context ability wipes out most RAG stack complexity immediately.

RAG is needed for the same reason you don't `SELECT *` all of your queries.

Can you share any reference material / libraries that you used to build these integrations?

Show HN: ChatGPT built entire web app in <1 month for Founder who couldn’t code

https://twitter.com/JoshSabol/status/1669052035751108621

I built https://outlier.care/ using ChatGPT in less than a month, and didn't know how to code 6 weeks ago. Outlier.Care is “Levels.fyi for Healthcare.”- Project: https://outlier.care/ - Announcement: https://twitter.com/JoshSabol/status/1669052035751108621 - Blog post (w/ prompts): https://sabol.io/outlier_care

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Re:APIs for content sites must be free on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @05:09PM (#36332702)
+1 I tweeted exactly this same sentiment just yesterday:

> This Reddit / Stack Overflow API drama feels weird to me as a user. It's USER submitted data. R/SO didn't create it.

> So what ChatGPT scraped it? They're benefiting the same users who contributed the content on R/SO, and then some.

> It's not like ChatGPT is cloning them.

> It would be like if Printing Houses tried to block authors from publishing their content as an eBook or Audiobook.

> Users contributing to your ecosystem doesn't give you perpetual dominion over that content

Please pardon my ignorance...

My understanding is that there are 1000s of different compression algorithms, each with their own pros/cons dependent on the type and characteristics of the file. And yet we still try to pick the "generically best" codec for a given file (ex. PNG) and then use that everywhere.

Why don't we have context-dependent compression instead?

I'm imagining a system that scans objects before compression, selects the optimal algorithm, and then encodes the file. The selected compression algorithm could be prefixed for easy decompression.

Compare a single black image that's 1x1 to one that's 1000x1000. PNGs are 128bytes and 6KB, respectively. However, Run Length Encoding would compress the latter to a comparable size as the former.

Any benefits over Chameleon?
Re:Unclogging Toilets at $400k a Flush Hits Navy’s Costs on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @12:41AM (#22681983)
> Overall, the Ford’s estimated lifetime operations and sustainment costs have grown to $123 billion from $77.3 billion, the most of six programs GAO evaluated.

That's an expensive boat.

Re:Ask HN: Have you ever regretted working on a product? on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @11:55AM (#18504027)
If you believe in hegemony, it's reasonable to want one entity to have a better (more efficient) weapon.
Theranos is a case study about the consequences of Wizard of Oz Experiments.
Re:Show HN: Web Scraping in Google Sheets on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @07:18PM (#16488594)
FYI, the email signup button on the Home page reads: "Keep me updat"