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Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models

56 pointsby 1h agogithub.com
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1h agoHN ↗

Just curious, where has this term 'noul' come from for yes/no ansers?

/a bit more digging and..

A Noul performs a Bernoulli trial—an experiment with exactly two outcomes (yes or no)—but instead of picking one, it returns the calibrated probability (ranging from 0.0 to 1.0) that the statement is true.

I hate it :)

59m agoHN ↗

If you want to get super pedantic about what’s happening in a transistor every digital Boolean is actually this

44m agoHN ↗

Not quite.. that boolean is about whether the voltage exceeds some threshold. It's not about how close the voltage is to the circuit's maximum possible threshold, or how much it exceeds the threshold.

In an analog circuit, maybe.

17m agoHN ↗

The whole "no hallucinations" premise is based on that.

Like, yeah, you don't hallucinate, but only because you force the user to decide in the end.

5m agoHN ↗

Wait til you hear about how digital circuits work at die level

3m agoHN ↗

That seems like the only possible way to eliminate hallucination, short of a model that is never wrong.

6m agoHN ↗

I like it. It is short and distinct which is a good fit for a primitive. It describes its fundamental meaning and draws a connotation with Boolean.

44m agoHN ↗

Are there "good" Open source Decision models built on Gemma-4 and also trainiable on own data?

39m agoHN ↗

Jeeves, that's a name I haven't heard in a long time...

32m agoHN ↗

If Jeeves returned as an AI chat bot it would be the most brilliant resurgence of nostalgia

24m agoHN ↗

jeeves is currently the name of my local hosted assistant, in its context there are rules that tell it to behave like good old jeeves.

soon I'll make sure that my home assistant pod answers to "Hey jeeves"

18m agoHN ↗

Personally I’m happy that after a 30 year effort and hundreds of billions spent, AskJeeves finally works as intended.

25m agoHN ↗

This isn't really surprising. LLM reasoning and before that, chain of thought prompting are essentially forms of test-time compute scaling.

21m agoHN ↗

Seems like this is the way, a hybrid approach where some of the pipeline will be jev like and some traditional LLM depending on the nature of the work.

3m agoHN ↗

Ask Jeeves - Only took us 30 years to come full circle.

3m agoHN ↗

Super dope. If it would ship as prod ready code supporting mps as well that would be even doper.

But funny that jev is getting its lunch eaten apparently in under two weeks?

2m agoHN ↗

interesting bench list, what about benchmark against smaller or bigger models? 9B looks too huge for small like laya, and too small for llm-level decisions.