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I went looking for the latest line of apple computers I noticed they force you into the higher CPU's in order to get the higher amounts of unified memory. So not only are they content charging +$400 or +$600 for RAM…

As far as I can tell, only OpenAI has a robust structured output mode i.e. JSON mode or a schema of your choice. Why do the other model providers not have a robust json mode yet? This is a pretty killer requirement for…

It has been some time since the last major step change in LLMs. The latest round of models are not huge step changes this time around, but more employing certain steps such as CoT. For open-AI the o1 model adds a new…

I'm trying to understand the trade-offs between fine tuning and RAG. Without fine tuning a model of my own, do any comparisons exist between plain LLM, RAG, and a fine tune for the same prompts/topic to be able to…

it has been a while since https://openai.com/blog/custom-instructions-for-chatgpt was released, now that the community has had time to play around with this feature, what are some custom instructions that have yielded…

I just started reading this and it seems great, but I wanted to see what, if any thing, HN’ers have done differently after reading the book?

As we return to work this week, what are you doing to get ready to go back to work and to set up your year? Some things I’ve been doing include: setting up my notebook bullet journal for 2024, cleaning up my homebrew…

Speaking as a software engineer interested in mathematics, statistics, web based products.

Hi HN, as the title suggests I want to learn a more rigorous treatment of statistics including the proofs that go along with it. I have a masters in a STEM subject so I am familiar with plug-and-chug mathematics up to…

I am looking for practice projects that have a skeleton repo and issues/tickets to implement so I can practice adding features, refactoring, passing a CI, TDD etc. Does something like this exist?

I've noticed an influx of new users in the last year, and an influx of a different type of user on this site. The quality of posts, questions, and comments is at an all time low in my opinion. Has anyone found similar…

Both to learn from the errors and minimize future ones, and also to not feel so terrible about making them.

Inspired by https://readwrite.com/2013/11/08/seven-ways-to-use-github-that-arent-coding/ I was wondering what other cool ways are people using github?

I just started learning electron and I'm not sure which packaging tool to use out of: electron-forge electron-builder electron-packager Does anyone have any idea who is using each of these?