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I'm the Co-founder & CEO of MindsDB, and also recent visiting scholar at UC Berkeley researching machine learning automation and explainability. Before founding MindsDB, I worked for a number of data-intensive start-ups, most recently working with Aneesh Chopra (the first CTO in the US government) building ML data systems for healthcare projects. I have degrees in electrical engineering & computer science from the Australian National University.

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news.ycombinator.com 9d ago

Claudio? Why we need and open source Claude

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github.com 9d ago

Claude but Open-Source –> One workplace. Not five tools that hate eachother

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github.com 3mo ago

Anton – The most advanced AI data-coworker

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news.ycombinator.com 10mo ago

Hello to Unstructured Analytics

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mindsdb.com 1y ago

Federated Data Access for MCP (Model Context Protocol)

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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

Building Llamas That Think?

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colab.research.google.com 1y ago

Llama That Thinks

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github.com 1y ago

FlawLess AgenTs – Feedback Welcome

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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

Agents suck – but it can be better

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Tap into 17 LLMs with a Single API – Free with Unlimited Tokens

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Use Llama 3 models for free via OpenAI-compatible API

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

LLMs: What if we did unlimited tokens instead?

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www.loom.com 2y ago

Feedback wanted: How to build a chatbot with GPT4

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Feedback Wanted: How to Build a Text-to-SQL Agent

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www.loom.com 2y ago

Build a user-friendly chatbot for database queries

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mindsdb.com 2y ago

How to build your own Midjourney with SQL

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mindsdb.com 2y ago

Elevate Your Hacktoberfest Experience: MindsDB's Grand Prize Bonanza

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Does the size of your llama matter? What's Ollama?, can I plug it to Chroma? (

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mindsdb.com 3y ago

How to protect your AI systems from Prompt Hacking

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Meet SnoopStein, half-SnoopDoog half-Einstein

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

What's this new J{AI}SON thing?

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Open-source, very smart and It will make you think that Glean, ThoughtSpot, and practically any tool you've ever used to "answer questions from data to get your job done" look like fax-machines at an antique shop.

Hey HN,

So, casually trying to make LLaMA achieve consciousness (as one does on a Tuesday), when I stumbled upon something hilarious. Turns out, you can make these language models "reason" with about as much code as it takes to write a "Hello World" program. No, really!

https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1jfsG0_XP8a5mME76F5a...

Here's the philosophical crisis I'm having now: When you ask an LLM to code something vs. asking it to reason about something... are we basically watching the same neural spaghetti being twirled around?

The real question is: If one can make an AI model "think" with 5 lines of code, does this mean: a) An LLM should be able to write its own reasoning code b) We've been overthinking AI? c) The simulation is running low on RAM d) All of the above

Would love to hear your thoughts, preferably in the form of recursive functions or philosophical paradoxes.

P.S. No LLAMAs were harmed in the making of this experiment, though several did ask for a raise.

great question, i think rather than smaller inputs, you should be able to have as much context as needed in. Its more aboue smaller outputs, that are well typed and allow you to control workflow via standard coding mechanics. Therefore getting the best of both worlds, llms power of understanding unstructured info (which python sucks at) and being able to control things which python is great at.

Hey — We built a text-to-SQL skill, connected it to an agent, and in the end, you can publish a Chatbot to Slack.

This is useful because it lets non-technical people ask questions of a database and get the answers they need.

Please check out our demo above and let us know what you think.

These are amazing questions Streetcat, We do some hyperparameter search using Optuna, we may be moving to Ray Tune because it can be highly parallelized. If MindsDB fails, it depends on how various DBs manage federated storage, but essentially you will get a query error. Funny that you mention automatic retraining, people have been asking for this recently, we will be supporting a retrain_frequency parameter in the coming releases, would you like to give it a test drive?

this is a great question, I actually think that if your language is also R, MSsql r integration is a great option, what we bring to the table for MSSQL users in particular is more options as well as better performance for some types of problems like high cardinality on time-series, for example: predicting inventory for all products in a database taking into account all previous inventory as well as say marketing data, building this in the R bindings would be quite a challenge, with mindsdb its a simple SQL statement

you are right!! the main thing is to offer it for other databases (mysql, mariadb, postgres, clickhouse, clickhouse, timescale, mongodb) as well as to support more powerful machine learning capabilities than the vanila classical models supported by oracle, for instance great timeseries support

Also worth mentioning, Mindsdb can take input columns of any of the following (numerical, categorical, text, images) and it's getting pretty good at Timeseries problems (for which we support a variety of techniques, including novel approaches to sequential data such as (RNNs, Transformers, CNN tiling, ...). Given the nature of data in databases where there is often a chronological order of transactions we put allot of focus on offer capabilities to make the models time aware.