jsonformer VS 123elf

- Tools like jsonformer https://github.com/1rgs/jsonformer are not possible with OpenAIs API.

How does this compare in terms of latency, cost, and effectiveness to jsonformer? https://github.com/1rgs/jsonformer

You're correct with interpreting how the model works wrt it returning tokens one at a time. The model returns one token, and the entire context window gets shifted right by one to for account it when generating the next one.

As for model performance at different context sizes, it's seems a bit complicated. From what I understand, even if models are tweaked (for example using the superHOT RoPE hack or sparse attention) to be able to use longer contexts, they still have to be fined tuned on input of this increased context to actually utilize it, but performance seems to degrade regardless as input length increases.

For your question about fine tuning models to respond with only "yes" or "no", I recommend looking into how the jsonformers library works: https://github.com/1rgs/jsonformer . Essentially, you still let the model generate many tokens for the next position, and only accept the ones that satisfy certain criteria (such as the token for "yes" and the token for "no".

You can do this with openAI API too, using tiktoken https://twitter.com/AAAzzam/status/1669753722828730378?t=d_W... . Be careful though as results will be different on different selections of tokens, as "YES", "Yes", "yes", etc are all different tokens to the best of my knowledge

From here, we just need to continue generating tokens until we get to a closing quote. This approach was borrowed from Jsonformer which uses a similar approach to induce LLMs to generate structured output. Continuing to do so for each property using Replit's code LLM gives the following output:

https://github.com/1rgs/jsonformer or https://github.com/microsoft/guidance may help get better results, but I ended up with a bit more of a custom solution.

I think function calling is just JSONformer idk: https://github.com/1rgs/jsonformer

jsonformer: https://github.com/1rgs/jsonformer

According to https://github.com/taviso/123elf/issues/105 there is no real chance for getting a FOSS license here.

We all have weird interest, it's the long tail.

Magic happens when you find someone with the same weird interest: emulation brings innovation through iterations!

Maybe someday I'll find someone interested in running Excel through wine rendering in Sixels within a terminal :)

And before you ask, yes I've enjoyed way too much reading about https://github.com/taviso/123elf and the history behind it!

123 was indeed ported to UNIX, I have that working as well! https://github.com/taviso/123elf

(Although it was more likely procalc - a popular low-end lotus clone)

I'm also working on porting dBase IV, another popular package from the era :)

Check out my quick start guide, it's for R3 but is mostly applicable to R2.