MOmolli·Jul 28, 2024
Similar: https://github.com/moritztng/fltr
Like grep but for natural language questions. Based on Mistral LLMs.
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Like grep but for natural language questions. Based on Mistral 7B or Mixtral 8x7B.
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3Mentions
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What it is
Like grep but for natural language questions. Based on Mistral 7B or Mixtral 8x7B.
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Observed mentions: 2024-03-05 18:53:13 UTC to 2024-07-28 06:08:41 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Mar 4 | 2024-03-04 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-03-11 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Mar 11 | 2024-03-11 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-03-18 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Mar 18 | 2024-03-18 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-03-25 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 25 | 2024-03-25 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 1 | 2024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-04-08 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 8 | 2024-04-08 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-04-15 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 15 | 2024-04-15 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-04-22 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 22 | 2024-04-22 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-04-29 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 29 | 2024-04-29 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-05-06 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 6 | 2024-05-06 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-05-13 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 13 | 2024-05-13 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-05-20 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 20 | 2024-05-20 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-05-27 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 27 | 2024-05-27 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-06-03 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 3 | 2024-06-03 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-06-10 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 10 | 2024-06-10 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-06-17 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 17 | 2024-06-17 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-06-24 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 24 | 2024-06-24 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 1 | 2024-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-07-08 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 8 | 2024-07-08 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-07-15 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 15 | 2024-07-15 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-07-22 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 22 | 2024-07-22 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-07-29 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
3 sourcesShow HN: Like grep but for natural questions. Mixtral 8x7B – 28 tok/s on 8GB GPU
Like grep but for natural language questions. Based on Mistral 7B or Mixtral 8x7B.
Example:
fltr --file emails.txt --prompt "Is the following email spam? Email:" --batch-size 32
It will output all lines in the file where the answer is yes.
Text file input tokens per second:
- Nvidia RTX 3070 with 8GB memory: Mistral 7B: ~52 tok/s, Mixtral 8x7B: ~28 tok/s
- Intel I5-6500 with 8GB memory: Mistral 7B: ~5 tok/s, Mixtral 8x7B: ~2 tok/s
Supports: Linux (x86_64) & macOS (x86_64 & arm64)
10 points · Open discussionLike grep but for natural language questions. Based on Mixtral 8x7B
2 points · Open discussion