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This looks great – excited to give it a try. Love to see this coming out of YC, too.
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it would be a really nice product experience if you could click on a book (in the recommendations), then get recommendations for that book, and so on
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very cool – I like how opinionated the product approach is vs. a bunch of disconnected tools for specialists to use (which seems more common for this space).
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I live in the US, and the type of party in the article is way more familiar to me than potlucks or cookouts – but that's just me
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sounds way better that way
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this is really nice.
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what is the value of that, as you see it?
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same
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https://www.childtrends.org/publications/fertility-rate-unit... edit: fertility rate in the US is near historic lows. maybe you're thinking of something else re: demographic…
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would be fixed by adding controls - probably q and e - to turn the camera left and right and pivot the character
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Great question. The model does look at comments, too.
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Sadly, this doesn't work on the line-level yet. I know that wasn't the main purpose of your comment, but figured I'd mention that first. Getting more to the heart of your question: the …
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It is possible to use this via the command line today. I'll ask Henry to have a look & comment here (or grab a demo and leave a note, we'll give you some more details).
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That's a great question + something we've discussed internally a bit. We suspect it is possible to "trick" the model with a little effort (like you did above) but it's not som…
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brb, renaming
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Totally – we have support for Java, C#, and Ruby in the works. Edit: since you mentioned universities, are you thinking about AI detection for student work, e.g. like a plagiarism checker? Just curiou…
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Really appreciate it!
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I'll let Henry elaborate here, but we think there's a chance that a truly language-agnostic classifier is possible. That being said, the next version of this will support a few more language…
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I'm sure Henry will chime in here, but there's some more info here in the technical announcement: https://www.span.app/introducing-span-detect-1 "span-detect-1 was eval…
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sharing the technical announcement here (more info on evaluations, comparison to other models, etc): https://www.span.app/introducing-span-detect-1 …