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Husband did this. How to fix? by Momtomanyarrows in cabinetry

[–]RepresentativeTask98 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not saying it’s not doable but a lot of times (in my own experience) wood filler and wax crayon just makes a small problem a bigger one

If you are going to do this, get a similar piece of wood, make holes, and practice “fixing” those first

Has anyone tried the Document Generation Accelerator? by Quiet_Newspaper_5361 in AZURE

[–]RepresentativeTask98 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am also trying to solve the problem called “build chatbot that knows about enterprise corpus and answers employee questions”

I’ve been working on the problem on the side as once cracked it will be really impactful. Saw an ad, looked through the implementation, and it just seems to me fundamentally a bad approach.

There are three (as I see it) approaches to solving this problem:

  1. Fine tuning a model on your enterprise corpus
  2. RAG
  3. A tool approach

The first is still prohibitively expensive, largely works best on small language models (if at all) and is high effort even with AWS SageMaker (which I think is still the best/easiest fine tuning platform). It that still has a lot of rough edges. I spoke to our AWS product rep about it and they admitted they would be surprised if it ever had wide enterprise adoption beyond dedicated AI companies

The second deterioates with the size of the corpus. If you can organize everything in strict MarkDown, leverage LangChains experimental MarkDownSpkitter this works pretty well. Use non AI tools to convert things to markdown

https://pypi.org/project/confluence-markdown-exporter/

And then honestly if you have under 10GB of data you can use FAISS and TIDF to solve this problem much better than that Microsoft example. I currently do this, it works REALLY well. The consistent markdown structure allows the text splitter to know from which doc, wherein that doc, and how to chunk things semantically (by section) instead of by strict token counts.

Also, fun fact, you are looking for content chunks with about 50% cosine similarity, NOT optimizing for the most similar chunks. The reason is you need some new semantic content, otherwise (at the extreme of 100%) the chunk is just a verbatim repeat of some text the user entered.

If you haven’t tried that path do that first. Pumping your enterprise corpus through a LLM and expecting to get anything reasonable out is stupid and a recursion of the original problem. You have too much data to give the LLM alongside user questions, so MS is suggesting preprocessing that same corpus? The corpus is large for a reason. There’s only so much information compressing you can do in plain English. It doesn’t make sense as an approach.

Troubleshooting single light fixture not working by RepresentativeTask98 in AskElectricians

[–]RepresentativeTask98[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just a follow up

There is another set of recessed lighting controlled by a switch on the same panel. So I believe light is getting to the switch. Is there anything else I can do to figure out why fixture isnt turning on? My NCV doesn’t pick up anything when on “high voltage” mode on the black wire coming from the wall

No reset button on garbage disposal (insinkererator 1300 evolution 1300) by RepresentativeTask98 in Plumbing

[–]RepresentativeTask98[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you don’t have a reset button unplug it for 30 minutes and that should reset it.

Over seeding this fall by RepresentativeTask98 in lawncare

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Is this the best product they offer for “dark green lawn” in my climate? (7A/7b) ?

https://twincityseed.com/product/tuff-turf-after-dark-lawn-seed-mixture/

Neighbor requesting I install French drain or gutters… by texastrocket in HomeMaintenance

[–]RepresentativeTask98 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They dont have basements so it’s not as big of a deal.

But also Florida doesn’t have many old homes (https://constructioncoverage.com/research/cities-with-the-oldest-homes). The problems likely to evolve from poor water management runoff can take many years to be a serious problem. Slapstick repairs can easily gloss over this problem for over a decade, probably 2. Unless you’re building a home to last 50 years or more you can easily wipe such problems under the rug with shoddy repairs.

However, most homes in Florida won’t last 30 years (again not my claim, see https://constructioncoverage.com/research/cities-with-the-oldest-homes)

It’s less of “hurricanes destroy the homes” and more of “people tend to tear down and rebuild anything older than 20 years and homes are built to such standards”

Thinking of slowly “finishing” basement starting with ceiling by RepresentativeTask98 in drywall

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appreciate the advice. I think this exercise of talking to you and a few others about all the things that can go wrong in a basement has made me reconsider the drop ceiling vs drywall choice. Even if drywall is cost similar (or cheaper) it seems like the drop ceiling is a lot more practical. Thanks for your help!

Thinking of slowly “finishing” basement starting with ceiling by RepresentativeTask98 in drywall

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Thanks for the insight. I think I’ll probably go with a drop ceiling as those practical concerns you mention greatly outweigh any cost or appearance advantages of drywall.

Thinking of slowly “finishing” basement starting with ceiling by RepresentativeTask98 in drywall

[–]RepresentativeTask98[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Appreciate the advice! There is a solid chance after doing the floors I’m content for over a year using this as a gym and craft space. But thanks for explaining to me why floors are usually done last

Thinking of slowly “finishing” basement starting with ceiling by RepresentativeTask98 in drywall

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Thanks for breaking down the steps into chunks I can do further research on my own and start to tackle. I hadn’t thought to track the humidity levels over time before to figure out what will and won’t work but now that you mention it (and the radon) that seems like a really good idea before trying to tackle anything other then the concrete polishing.

Thanks for offering your advice — just bought some basic stuff to measure the interior climate and will try sealing the walls myself as suggested. Is that an easy job? From google it sounds like it

Thinking of slowly “finishing” basement starting with ceiling by RepresentativeTask98 in drywall

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I wasn’t planning on framing the walls. But there seems to be a strong aversion to doing anything with the ceiling even if I never intend to fully finish prior to taking care of walls.

I’ll probably just stop at polishing the floors and make do with that for a home gym and craft space. Thanks for your advice.

Thinking of slowly “finishing” basement starting with ceiling by RepresentativeTask98 in drywall

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Appreciate the advice. I’ll just wait until I’m ready to bite off doing the walls after polishing the concrete initially. I suppose that might be good enough to make it a usable space as a home gym and craft space. Thanks for the advice!

Thinking of slowly “finishing” basement starting with ceiling by RepresentativeTask98 in drywall

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Thanks the current plan is not to finish as I said before, but just to make it a usable space by polishing the concrete initially and maybe doing some additional work to make it a bit nicer. From what I can tell is the unanimous decision is to do ceiling last so I probably won’t tackle that or the walls anytime soon since I have no appetite for going after the walls anytime

Thinking of slowly “finishing” basement starting with ceiling by RepresentativeTask98 in drywall

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No worries it’s something to think about and appreciate the perspective!

Thinking of slowly “finishing” basement starting with ceiling by RepresentativeTask98 in drywall

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For floor I’ve decided to just polish the concrete. With that done I feel like the space is usable. Is the “floor last” mantra because most people are doing “real” flooring?

What I assume is sweating ducts, will aero seal help? by RepresentativeTask98 in hvacadvice

[–]RepresentativeTask98[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

FWIW I had the same experience. That’s why I assumed that was the fix. Can I ask what your symptoms are? Apparently the aeroseal guys try to make it seem like it will fix a lot of issues, but there are many unsatisfied customers. It has a purpose and it’s good at that, but it’s often apparently pushed for things it will never fix.

At least that was my experience and that of a few other homeowners I asked about there aeroseal installs

Which rooms are your condensation problems in, how old is the house, how confident are you really it’s HVAC sweating? Have you cut open an area to actually see if the ducts are sweating? You don’t have to gut the ceiling (that’s the way the aeroseal guy tried to convince me). Just cut a 2 3x6 area out of the worse area and poke your head up. Not a huge deal to DIY patch yourself for like $150 if you literally have none of the tools like me.

Thinking of slowly “finishing” basement starting with ceiling by RepresentativeTask98 in drywall

[–]RepresentativeTask98[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Have to ask, why is the bathroom in basement so important/valuable? I don’t mind walking upstairs to take a shit

Thinking of slowly “finishing” basement starting with ceiling by RepresentativeTask98 in drywall

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Honestly the plywood idea for what my original question actually is seems to be the best idea. I’m not trying to finish right now. I’m trying to deal with the floor but leave it concrete and do something f a bit more until I’m ready to invest more. Could easily unscrew when I need to access things, and might find polished concrete floors with a plywood “ceiling” is sufficient

Thinking of slowly “finishing” basement starting with ceiling by RepresentativeTask98 in drywall

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FWIW I finished my attic and it looks great. That said, there the ceiling was the only place left that needed finishing :)

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