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Re:Martin Scorsese Is Embracing A.I on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @09:39AM (#48370145)
Martin Scorsese is backing Black Forest Labs, the company famous for FLUX models.
Re:FLUX.1 Kontext on Thursday May 29, 2025 @05:02PM (#44130367)
I got it working when I provided an image of a Model F keyboard. This is the strength of the model, provide it an input image and it will do some magic

Disclaimer: I work for BFL

Re:Ollama v0.1.33 with Llama 3, Phi 3, and Qwen 110B on Monday April 29, 2024 @12:02PM (#40200064)
Oh yes good point, it's because at first I was using a local embedding model and then decided to use JinaAI as they have good embeddings.

Jina AI is doing different things but one of them is having embeddings and I use their English/ German embeddings as in one demo I am working with German data.

You can use pip as well but yes, let me add something about Poetry in case people don't know about it :)

Re:Ollama v0.1.33 with Llama 3, Phi 3, and Qwen 110B on Monday April 29, 2024 @04:22AM (#40195901)
I love working with Ollama, I was really surprised at how easy it is to build a simple RAG system with it. For example: https://github.com/stephen37/ollama_local_rag
On top of my head, pgvector only supports 2 indexes, those are running in memory only. They don't support GPU indexing, nor Disk based indexing, they also don't have separation of query and insertions.

Also with different people I've talked to, they struggle with scale past 100K-1M vector.

You can also have a look yourself from a performance perspective: https://ann-benchmarks.com/

It's nice to begin with but you usually quickly hit a scale issue from what I tried and talked to different people using it.

Also they only offer index stored in Memory as far as I know, also lack the support of different index or more advanced ones like GPU index.

https://zilliz.com/comparison/milvus-vs-pgvector

Re:Supabase Storage: now supports the S3 protocol on Friday April 19, 2024 @11:35AM (#40088128)
Cool to see that Supabase is adding S3 protocol! Nice to see more and more storage solutions available.

We, at Milvus, I've integrated S3, Parquet and other ones to make it possible for developers to use their data no matter what they use.

For those who have used both, how do you find the performance and ease of integration compares between Supabase and other solutions like Milvus that have had these features for some time?

Re:How to Speak Fluent English? on Friday March 15, 2024 @11:41AM (#39716974)
I am French originally and on my side what worked well was to speak to myself in English all the time. At home I would actually speak English out loud and it helped a lot with practicing my pronunciation and also to learn new words.

Also reading books in English out loud can be really helpful.

Re:Gen AI Consumer Apps on Thursday March 14, 2024 @05:26AM (#39701850)
What is Character.AI doing special to have that much more engagement than other apps?
Re:Open-source Rust-based RAG on Monday March 11, 2024 @05:22AM (#39666075)
It might be the first time that I see a phone number on a Github Repo, I wonder how many phone calls they will actually receive. It's probably the last thing I'd like to do when looking at an open source repository.