pjb88
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Comment · 10 months ago
Comment · 10 months ago
Long term.
Like normally I do a mix of index funds wide diversification plus bonds 80/20, but even vanguard (despite always saying "get a plan and stick to it, tune out the noise") are all of a sudden saying they're under weighting growth stocks..
(Which I think is a bit strange that they don't acknowledge that it's different from their normal strategy)
Comment · 10 months ago
Any ideas of where to invest just now?
Seems like there's lots of warnings about equity bubbles, bond/debt problems, economic issues that will affect inflation (UK/EU), and gold is mega high. Seems like everywhere you look it's doom?
Comment · 10 months ago
Any recommendations for a distro?
I've used Mint in the past, loved it until I spent a day trying to get scanner drivers to work. Don't know if that's changed now, was 4 years ago
Comment · 10 months ago
So... What will the actual impact on groq services be?
I'm a fan, and I use Groq a lot for systems I build. I think they offer something different to most other providers (cheaper, faster, and until recently "we don't store your data by default") and it will be sad to see that fade.
Comment · 1 year ago
I saw this plane out my window when it was landing at Prestwick. It was dark and windy about 60mph and I said to my wife "what's that in the sky".
The airport is about 5 miles away, for some reason this one caught my eye - in the hundreds/thousands of planes that go by I've never said that before, don't know if it was pointed an odd direction but it appeared stationary. We thought it was like a star, but too bright. We looked it up on flight radar to see if it was a plane and it was the one that later came out.
I know this will not be relevant to anything but I thought it was a strange coincidence then I saw it on my hn feed.
Comment · 2 years ago
Not sure if this will help, but a while ago I was thoroughly confused about all the AI options (and advice from other people) so spent a while experimenting, now make systems for commercial sometimes, but for a basic-yet-functional knowledge base, that you can expand with whatever tooling you want:
- Don't use llamaindex/llangchain etc. - fine to get started quick but you'll quickly get frustrated when you try to do something different
- Suck in all your files using public libraries. convert to text. Remove obvious crap like line breaks etc. Don't worry about it too much.
- Use postgres as vectorDB - cheap.
- OpenAI is fine, and the docs are great - gpt 3.5 gives fine results; cheapest embedding model fine.
- Spend some time optimising the prompts - that's the most important thing.
I wrote up basics for my specific niche here, has cost/time breakdowns and costs about $4 per month for hosting (and only then because I couldn't face setting up postgres on my other server) and < $1 per 50GB of text/xlsx/etc embedded: https://superstarsoftware.co.uk/ai-for-drilling-engineers/
(as in: dirt cheap).
I basically made it as a showcase for potential customers, was half thinking of open sourcing it so people can get up and running quickly including with decent frontend, but not sure if there's much appetite since it's basic.
Or are they building a structure that's attractive for bugs to enter? What's the strategy for this web?