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The people holding up the internet (plain version)
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The people holding up the internet
Four billion phones ask one text file what time it is. One lecturer keeps it in his spare time. We counted the rest.

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Find and Help your Open Source Friends
- Leonid Bugaev
"So let the large projects close the queue [to LLM contributions]. There is a lot more open source out there.
That was the reason I built Help Wanted in the first place, few years ago. At the time of writing, it has 650,456 issues from 96,576 projects in its index, from the projects who actually WANT help. Most developers will never hear the names of nearly all these projects.”
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ok, there's potentially value in a webapp having access to a deterministic, promptable "anything" classifier that runs locally. if you know which anything-classifiers are available, you can validate a prompt for your use case, and shipping a prompt to the browser is probably cheaper than shipping your own classifier
this definitely feels more interesting than local LLMs, but it's not a trillion dollar industry. it's "browsers ship an api for Ann's opensource ocr and pose detector, cool"

That's a nice little utility, also available as a #launchbar action
#markdown #html #opensource