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Show HN: Groundhog AI Spring API

groundhog-day.com
58 points·by pcraig3·last year·19 comments

Usage data and analysis from my AI chatbot

taxgpt.ca
2 points·by pcraig3·2 years ago·2 comments

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1 points·by pcraig3·2 years ago·0 comments

Show HN: Enterprise-Grade Groundhog API

groundhog-day.com
1 points·by pcraig3·2 years ago·1 comments

Show HN: TaxGPT, AI tax advisor for Canada

taxgpt.ca
3 points·by pcraig3·3 years ago·0 comments

Show HN: Groundhog-day.com – structured groundhog data

groundhog-day.com
120 points·by pcraig3·3 years ago·54 comments

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1 points·by pcraig3·3 years ago·0 comments

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pcraig3
·last year·discuss
It handles hundreds of thousands of requests a day, that's pretty good!

But you are right, SOC2 is the next step for sure.
pcraig3
·last year·discuss
Like Phil, I always assume the negative comments have a 35% accuracy rating.

I hope your child builds the next unicorn startup using this API!
pcraig3
·last year·discuss
You can try and run it yourself but you are going to need Stargate-level hardware to do it.
pcraig3
·last year·discuss
Sorry to hear you are out.

I've found "T/F" vals are not always portable between languages ("True" in Python vs "true" in JS) whereas integer comparisons are always interpreted correctly.
pcraig3
·last year·discuss
The job of Prognosticating Groundhog has weathered many technical revolutions: I don't think AI is going to be the one that puts them out of business.
pcraig3
·last year·discuss
Groundhogs are public figures who receive lots of press coverage, so it's important that we have mechanisms to keep them accountable.

Articles like "Grading the groundhogs" are only possible with clean datasets: https://www.noaa.gov/heritage/stories/grading-groundhogs
pcraig3
·last year·discuss
Yes, important context
pcraig3
·2 years ago·discuss
Hello all,

LLM hype is everywhere these days, but actual usage data is pretty hard to find. I see tons of companies pushing AI tools at me but I have almost no idea what user behaviour/preferences are.

I built a TaxGPT.ca, an AI chatbot for answering people's (Canadian) tax questions and ran a bunch of numbers over the questions submitted between March 4 to April 31, 2024.

Highlights include:

- Over 8,500 questions answered - Users frequently asked about basic tax info and business expenses - Feedback is not very common but surprisingly positive - Experiments in tagging questions in relevant and for 'complexity'

My verdict here is that these bots have potential but you have to have really quick feedback loops and pretty good product chops — you can't just throw AI at some problem and assume users will find their own ways to make it useful.
pcraig3
·3 years ago·discuss
I know, and not only are they fewer, but they are also mostly not real, alive groundhogs once you get that far.
pcraig3
·3 years ago·discuss
The pictures of real groundhogs are all there in the individual profiles, it just turns out that half of them are stuffed.
pcraig3
·3 years ago·discuss
Groundhog Day is on Feb 2nd! Depends on your timezone when the site rolls over though.
pcraig3
·3 years ago·discuss
Yes sir. Not sure how it ended up there.
pcraig3
·3 years ago·discuss
Fixed! Thanks for pointing it out. Bath pathname.
pcraig3
·3 years ago·discuss
Interesting point, I've got a page up that is the reverse of that here: https://groundhog-day.com/alternative-groundhogs

On the other hand, there is an API as well, so you can build a custom groundhog dashboard if you like.
pcraig3
·3 years ago·discuss
Absolutely: https://groundhog-day.com/api
pcraig3
·3 years ago·discuss
> How often do they correctly predict the weather?

I mentioned this in another comment, but accuracy data is basically impossible to get. You have to get weather data year by year for different regions of the country and then compare them to historical ranges. Means a pretty huge amount of trawling through data, not a lot of payoff.

> Also how often did their right or wrong predictions contradict the majority?

This one, you can get a little more easily. Check out the predictions page to see them grouped by year: https://groundhog-day.com/predictions

If you are looking up a specific groundhog, you can see how often they align/differ from the plurality.
pcraig3
·3 years ago·discuss
That's a huge insight to take away. Nevertheless, we still have climate-denier groundhogs consistently predicting winter and being wrong about it (cough Phil cough).

Hopefully, this site helps shine a light on these unscientific groundhogs.
pcraig3
·3 years ago·discuss
Nobody else seems to do this outside of the US and Canada.
pcraig3
·3 years ago·discuss
You, sir, have identified a bug. Just pushed an update to fix this.

If you look at the past 3 years, they have all been "early spring": https://groundhog-day.com/predictions

So the logic that was there didn't actually work properly, but I never noticed it before.
pcraig3
·3 years ago·discuss
Accuracy data is basically impossible to get. You have to get weather data year by year for different regions of the country and then compare them to historical ranges. It will basically mean 10x the work I've done already. It's open-source though, so it could be that someone wants to collaborate with me in future :D