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Comment by exhaze

Food for thought, a snippet from a highly specialized project I created two months ago:

https://gist.github.com/eugene-yaroslavtsev/c9ce9ba66a7141c5...

I spent several hours searching online for existing solutions - couldn't find anything (even when exploring the idea of stitching together multiple different tools, each in a different programming language).

This took me ~3-4 hours end-to-end. I haven't seen any other OSS code that is able to handle converting unstructured JSON into normalized, structured JSON with a schema, while also using a statistical sampling sliding window method for handling for all these:

- speculative SIMD prediction of end of current JSON entry - distinguishing whether two "similar" looking objects represent the same model or not - normalizing entities based on how often they're referenced - ~5-6 GB/s throughput on a Macbook M4 Max 24GB - arbitrary horizontal scaling (though shared entity/normalization resource contention may eventually become an issue)

I didn't write this code. I didn't even come up with all of these ideas in this implementation. I initially just thought "2NF"/"BNF" probably good, right? Not for multi-TB files.

This was spec'd out by chatting with Sonnet for ~1.5 hours. It was the one that suggested statistical normalization. It suggested using several approaches for determining whether two objects are the same schema (that + normalization were where most of the complexity decided to live).

I did this all on my phone. With my voice.

I hope more folks realize this is possible. I strongly encourage you and others reconsider this assumption!

parent exhaze 1 year ago

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