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Ask HN: Simulation Based Synthetic Data Generation

Is it possible to generate simulation based Synthetic data using LLMs ? i.e. Imagine a simulated network with a windows server and 3 windows PC clients. We want to generate of System and application logs for each entity using an LLM. Any help is apprecated.

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Ask HN: Local RAG with private knowledge base

Looking for a free, local, open source RAG solution for running a reference library with 1000s of technical PDFs and word docs. Tried the Ollama + open webui, Ollama+Anything LLM with opensource models such as Llama3.2 etc. As expected the more documents we feed the lower the accuracy. Doing it for a bunch of senior citizens who still love geeking out.

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LLMs for review of product specification documents

Are there any LLMs that can review technical documentation such as hardware/software requirements specifications. The product is a safety critical system (H/W + S/W) for the transportation industry. the LLM should technically review, analyze the documents and suggest test cases for Quality Assurance.

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Advanced RAG App with Multimodal LLMs

A local university wants me to develop a RAG enabled chatbot to query a large number of thesis/dissertations in their library. The documents are in PDF format with images, tables and charts. The total is around 3500 documents and more will be added as students graduate. request any suggestions to handle this heavy load. Any pointers to articles/videos online would be most helpful Thanks.

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Data Analysis with LLMs on Large Databases

Looking for a open/closed source solution for LLMs doing the work of Data Analysts on really large databases. For example, The Microsoft Contoso Database used as a demo for learning Power BI is approximately 450 MB and contains retail sales data. It has tens of tables each with several tens of columns. Is there a solution presently for querying in natural language and getting the LLM to perform...

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LLMs and SQL

Why is there no opensource or closed source solution as on today for a LLMs performing Data Analysis on Large databases. I mean complex schemas and with more than 100 tables. Essentially to replace data analysts.Is it really that difficult. While everyone in interested in finetuning, RAG and Agents, no one is serious about using LLMs for data analysis on a large scale. For starters, one can try...

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