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Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models

https://github.com/PostHog/jeeves
56•nicowaltz•1h ago

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alienbaby•1h ago
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 :)

keepitwiel•1h ago
Bernoulli
user3939382•1h ago
If you want to get super pedantic about what’s happening in a transistor every digital Boolean is actually this
kevindamm•48m ago
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.

k__•20m ago
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.

rusk•8m ago
Wait til you hear about how digital circuits work at die level
doginasuit•7m ago
That seems like the only possible way to eliminate hallucination, short of a model that is never wrong.
doginasuit•10m ago
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.
zerop•47m ago
Are there "good" Open source Decision models built on Gemma-4 and also trainiable on own data?
raverbashing•42m ago
Jeeves, that's a name I haven't heard in a long time...
fishfasell•36m ago
If Jeeves returned as an AI chat bot it would be the most brilliant resurgence of nostalgia
grokkedit•28m ago
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"

gizajob•22m ago
Personally I’m happy that after a 30 year effort and hundreds of billions spent, AskJeeves finally works as intended.
woadwarrior01•29m ago
This isn't really surprising. LLM reasoning and before that, chain of thought prompting are essentially forms of test-time compute scaling.
swader999•25m ago
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.
phplovesong•16m ago
So "askjeeves" has been resurrected?
thm•6m ago
Ask Jeeves - Only took us 30 years to come full circle.
RamblingCTO•6m ago
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?

mxkuzn•6m ago
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.

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189•damaru2•3h ago•51 comments

Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models

https://github.com/PostHog/jeeves
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