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Re:Richard Sutton and Andrew Barto Win 2024 Turing Award on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @06:56AM (#43265452)
Very well deserved !! Amazing contributions !!
Re:Show HN: 10 Years to Build a Free SQL Editor on Monday June 03, 2024 @12:51PM (#40564548)
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/07/21/good-software-take... - Reference. I read this for the first time. Thank you for sharing this.
Re:What We've Learned from a Year of Building with LLMs on Sunday June 02, 2024 @01:34PM (#40555844)
This is pure gold !! Thank you so much eugene and gang for doing this. For those of them which I have encountered, I can 100 % agree with them. This is fantastic !! So many good insights.
Re:Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various operations o... on Monday December 25, 2023 @07:44PM (#38767842)
Have you considered marker. Does a very good job of turning PDF into markdown. - https://github.com/VikParuchuri/marker
Re:Jsonformer: A bulletproof way to generate structured output from LLMs on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @06:30PM (#35795090)
This is pretty cool. I tried with dolly and then I tried with T5-base, both of it did not give me result. It broke for me. Has anyone tried it ?
Re:Replacing a SQL analyst with 26 recursive GPT prompts on Thursday January 26, 2023 @11:19PM (#34542425)
This is fantastic. This is what we do on our platform. + Copy and keep what worked and what did not so you can fine tune :)
Re:Show HN: Sketch – AI code-writing assistant that understands data c... on Monday January 16, 2023 @06:28PM (#34406994)
If this is using OpenAI which it seems is what it is using, It is only sending column headers / column names. Not the data. If you are concerned about column names, you could also mask it on the way out and back in. If you are looking for an end to end database connect and query, please reach out to me.
Re:Show HN: Sketch – AI code-writing assistant that understands data c... on Monday January 16, 2023 @06:25PM (#34406962)
They are decently good, I could not find major differences for the cases I was trying. The key is to control the temperature. Make sure it is low, otherwise the randomness increases tremendously. Infact you can feed the same input from openAI into NEOX and it generates results. There are many NEOX open playgrounds that allow you the control the temperature etc.
Re:Show HN: Sketch – AI code-writing assistant that understands data c... on Monday January 16, 2023 @12:33PM (#34403136)
GPT3 model generates a SQL. You can sqldf on top of your data.table. We will be demo'ing at one of the events shortly. BTW, you could do somewhat similar with other LLMs such as GPTJ and GPT NEOX if you have worked with them
Re:A data-centric introduction to computing on Sunday December 11, 2022 @11:28PM (#33950873)
Very well said !! data is code
Re:A data-centric introduction to computing on Sunday December 11, 2022 @11:28PM (#33950871)
2 chapters in. Very good and makes you think. Truly impressive way of teaching how data is pivotal. The introduction reminds me of Peter Norvig's talk. I also like the point below of data is code, it is very profound.
Re:A DARPA Perspective on Artificial Intelligence [pdf] on Saturday March 19, 2022 @10:43PM (#30739558)
Reminded me of this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awG09liCMD4
Re:Data Mesh Architecture on Saturday March 19, 2022 @10:40PM (#30739547)
The concept of a data-mesh is more of a business concept as opposed to tech. IMHO the idea being proposed is that of a conceptual data-server (not to be confused with database server) much like a HTTP server / Mail Server where people can engage with data as a first class citizen and create "data" products. This is especially true as we move from HTML to somewhat HDML (Hyper data markup).

By making data as the product (abstracting all the gory details), you are fundamentally engaging with data through a UI or an API. As you expose these products they become accretive while fundamentally encapsulating the domain expertise within them.

Re:Facebook's African Sweatshop on Monday February 14, 2022 @10:05AM (#30332817)
Radiolab had a similar post sometime back. That was about philippines - https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/post-...
Re:Ask HN: What are the dos and donts of startup in large companies? on Thursday December 23, 2021 @01:43PM (#29664981)
Of course. Assume somewhat of a big services company. There are many customer related problems that can be solved using products. Assuming such a product can be created. What should be the structure of the team that handles such products ? What should be the equity structure etc. Does that help ?
Re:A toaster from 1949 is still smarter than any sold today on Thursday November 25, 2021 @10:22PM (#29347248)
That was an awesome video. Thank you for sharing !!
Re:Cube.js – Open-Source Analytics API for Building Data Apps on Sunday October 24, 2021 @01:34PM (#28980129)
What do you mean by dynamic scheams ?
Re:NSA and CISA Kubernetes Security Guidance – A Critical Review on Sunday September 12, 2021 @03:02PM (#28503833)
This looks great. Thanks for sharing. I hope at some point this becomes a gate for RMF process.
Re:The “self-made” myth: Why hard work isn’t enough to reach the top on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @08:06PM (#27599047)
I love the phrase "Enthusiasm is not a skill". I think it is great. I am not for or against in terms of your idea. I just wanted to comment on the phrase :)

Datascience and GUI – Rekindling an old thread

Posted by pklee on Monday June 14, 2021 @10:34AM
from the self-post dept.

I was looking at how people are thinking between GUI and datascience and came across this thread - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16845666. In the past I have read GUI is basically a reification of command-line. Do we still think this way. Just what do we need as GUI for datascience.

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Re:Launch HN: Explo (YC W20) – Customer-facing dashboards and reports on Thursday June 10, 2021 @09:16AM (#27460340)
Sorry I had meant this for @curiousperson23. Thanks
Re:Launch HN: Explo (YC W20) – Customer-facing dashboards and reports on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @10:44PM (#27456127)
Would love to understand this more. [email protected]
Re:Ask HN: Is there a case for small / medium data on Thursday May 27, 2021 @03:18PM (#27306977)
Yeah I am not just talking about analytics.. even basic merging across data-sources and simple visualizations based on the blended data and the ability to go across environments.
Re:Ask HN: Is there a case for small / medium data on Thursday May 27, 2021 @03:15PM (#27306936)
Yes completely. What I am seeing more and more is people try to shovel everything into big-data, but it becomes a nuclear powered can-opener which I am not sure is needed. The UI for this oscillates between excel with a macro or here is SaaS. Absolutely nothing in between.

Ask HN: Is there a case for small / medium data

Posted by pklee on Thursday May 27, 2021 @12:04PM
from the ask-hn dept.

A lot of innovation happens in the big data (data that needs distributed compute - spark etc.) like ability to blend data across sources, schemaless / schema on the fly, deploy analytical models to production etc. Is there a case for similar innovations in the small to medium data (working with ~10M dataset) blended across data sources, simple analytical models and such ? What percentage of...

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Re:Havana syndrome: NSA officer’s case hints at microwave attacks sinc... on Sunday May 02, 2021 @10:24AM (#27015570)
Interestingly I was listening to this podcast yesterday - https://gimletmedia.com/shows/science-vs/76hgkmv/havana-synd... Analysis all the possibilities through interview with experts. Hope you find it interesting
Re:Steve McConnell on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @08:39PM (#25354311)
I would say Scott Ambler. His book "building object applications that work" was amazing and it helped me understand how to design systems

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