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Small LLMs vs. Fine-Tuned Bert for Classification: 32 Experiments

alex-jacobs.com
2 points·by tacoooooooo·5 miesięcy temu·0 comments

Show HN: TinyFn – 500 deterministic utility APIs for AI agents (via MCP)

tinyfn.io
1 points·by tacoooooooo·5 miesięcy temu·1 comments

Show HN: TinyFn – Your agent sucks at math

tinyfn.io
3 points·by tacoooooooo·5 miesięcy temu·9 comments

Traditional NLP is not dead

alex-jacobs.com
1 points·by tacoooooooo·6 miesięcy temu·0 comments

Can't Beat BERT–comparing small LLMs and fine-tuned encoders on classification

alex-jacobs.com
3 points·by tacoooooooo·6 miesięcy temu·1 comments

Show HN: The Lobste.rs invitation tree, visualized

alexjacobs08.github.io
5 points·by tacoooooooo·6 miesięcy temu·1 comments

Show HN: Generate a 1M-document RAG eval dataset from a single prompt

alexjacobs08.github.io
2 points·by tacoooooooo·7 miesięcy temu·1 comments

Show HN: Dataset Factory – Generate RAG evaluation datasets from a text prompt

alexjacobs08.github.io
1 points·by tacoooooooo·8 miesięcy temu·0 comments

Generate RAG evaluation datasets from a single prompt (1K to docs)

alexjacobs08.github.io
2 points·by tacoooooooo·8 miesięcy temu·0 comments

The Case Against PGVector

alex-jacobs.com
381 points·by tacoooooooo·8 miesięcy temu·137 comments

LLM Features That Ship: Extraction, Generation, and Classification

alex-jacobs.com
1 points·by tacoooooooo·10 miesięcy temu·0 comments

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tacoooooooo
·18 dni temu·discuss
you'll need the Max Plus plan for that, buddy
tacoooooooo
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
> Yes I understand airports are complex. So you have a computer and a human, and they work together.

how do you think it works today? some guy with binoculars?
tacoooooooo
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
pydantic-ai
tacoooooooo
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
whats wrong with .env files?
tacoooooooo
·5 miesięcy temu·discuss
same--this is exactly why I built this
tacoooooooo
·5 miesięcy temu·discuss
LLMs absolutely do not have access to the same tools unless they're explicitly given access to them. Running on a computer means nothing.

It sounds like you don't like LLMs! In that case, you may be more interested in our REST Api. All the same functions, but designed for edge computing, where dependency bloat is a real issue https://tinyfn.io/edge
tacoooooooo
·5 miesięcy temu·discuss
Humans are also bad at math! So we created calculators. LLMs should have the same access to tools to give them the best opportunity to succeed
tacoooooooo
·5 miesięcy temu·discuss
They're building a moat with data. They're building their own datasets of trusted sources, using their own teams of physicians and researchers. They've got hundreds of thousands of physicians asking millions of questions everyday. None of the labs have this sort of data coming in or this sort of focus on such a valuable niche
tacoooooooo
·5 miesięcy temu·discuss
saying they aren't pioneering is very different than saying they aren't a major player in the space. There're only like 5-7 players with a foundational model that they can serve at scale. xAI is one of them
tacoooooooo
·6 miesięcy temu·discuss
https://alex-jacobs.com
tacoooooooo
·6 miesięcy temu·discuss
This is an interesting read, and while I support being nice to every_thing_ in principle. Most of the research into this actually shows that being mean yeilds better results
tacoooooooo
·6 miesięcy temu·discuss
This looks pretty cool. I keep seeing people (an am myself) using claude code for more an more _non-dev_ work. Managing different aspects of life, work, etc. Anthropic has built the best harness right now. Building out the UI makes sense to get genpop adoption
tacoooooooo
·6 miesięcy temu·discuss
fizsh sounds really cool, but the last commit was 7+ years ago. do you run into any issues? https://github.com/zsh-users/fizsh
tacoooooooo
·6 miesięcy temu·discuss
not sure there are any models yet that you can get the quality out you need to do this and run on your mbp
tacoooooooo
·6 miesięcy temu·discuss
This is a wildly out of touch thing to say
tacoooooooo
·6 miesięcy temu·discuss
correct afaik :(

https://github.com/timescale/pgvectorscale/issues/113
tacoooooooo
·6 miesięcy temu·discuss
the main issue with pgvectorscale is that it's not available in RDS :(
tacoooooooo
·6 miesięcy temu·discuss
This probably doesn't count as an "app" in terms of what you're looking for, but was a fun little project

https://alexjacobs08.github.io/lobsters-graph/

(i built this in search of a lobste.rs invite if anyone willing and able sees this--email in my bio :)
tacoooooooo
·6 miesięcy temu·discuss
This looks awesome. ai-sdk is an excellent library. excited to see it proliferating
tacoooooooo
·7 miesięcy temu·discuss
Standard benchmarks (like BEIR/MS MARCO) are great, but they are likely already in distribution for foundation models training sets, and crucially, they lack the complex, structured metadata needed to test real-world filtering scenarios (e.g., "Find docs from region X, between dates Y and Z, with tag A").

datasetFactory is an orchestrated LLM pipeline that turns a single natural language prompt into a (potentially) massive, structured evaluation dataset.