[HN Gopher] Spice.ai - open-source, time series AI for developers
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       Spice.ai - open-source, time series AI for developers
        
       Author : prosim
       Score  : 48 points
       Date   : 2021-09-07 20:03 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (blog.spiceai.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (blog.spiceai.org)
        
       | bee_rider wrote:
       | Note: has nothing to do with the long-standing ecosystem of
       | circuit simulators, as far as I can tell. Although, hey, try
       | pointing it at some transients, maybe we can have AIs design
       | circuits, that could be nice.
        
       | capableweb wrote:
       | For those of you who missed the links to the examples:
       | 
       | > Try:
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       | > ServerOps sample - a more in-depth version of the quickstart
       | you just completed, using CPU metrics from your own machine
       | 
       | > Gardener - Intelligently water a simulated garden
       | 
       | > Trader - a basic Bitcoin trading bot
       | 
       | - https://github.com/spiceai/samples/tree/trunk/serverops/READ...
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       | - https://github.com/spiceai/samples/tree/trunk/gardener/READM...
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       | - https://github.com/spiceai/quickstarts/tree/trunk/trader/REA...
        
       | Gimpei wrote:
       | It would also be nice to have some sense of what the underlying
       | algorithms are.
        
         | haardvark5001 wrote:
         | Hello Gimpei. Spice.ai currently supports two algorithms,
         | Vanilla Policy Gradient and Deep Q-Learning. It provides an
         | interface to plug in your own algorithms, though. We're looking
         | to add more to it as we go along.
         | 
         | You can find more info at https://docs.spiceai.org/deep-
         | learning-ai/
        
       | kallsyms wrote:
       | I'm having trouble understanding what the goal is of this as
       | well. It seems like the quick summary would be "ML-based
       | forecasting/prediction in a box" but the readme is making all of
       | these broad claims...
        
         | haardvark5001 wrote:
         | We're looking to make timeseries AI easier for developers to
         | integrate into their applications by providing tooling and
         | patterns that are familiar to them. We're a group of devs that
         | were looking to add intelligence to one of our projects, but
         | struggling with existing tooling. We wanted to use patterns
         | that were more familiar to us as devs, like a quick debugging
         | loop, easily consumed packages, etc.
        
       | infide1castr0 wrote:
       | Unrelated to the programme, but I wonder if the naming is related
       | to "Dune" at all
        
         | bigtuna711 wrote:
         | Too bad the Butlerian Jihad forbids it XD
        
         | bpodgursky wrote:
         | To me, clearly is a play on mentats making first, second, and
         | third-order predictions of the future, so yes.
        
       | nwmcsween wrote:
       | Need a tldr for this vs loudml
        
       | jjoonathan wrote:
       | A minimal example would really help me figure out what this
       | actually does.
        
         | axpy906 wrote:
         | Yes, it needs a quick start somewhere.
        
           | haardvark5001 wrote:
           | Try out one of the quickstarts using Github Codespaces. No
           | setup required :)
           | 
           | https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai#getting-started-with-
           | code...
        
       | mountainriver wrote:
       | It's unclear to me what all this does from the GitHub repository
        
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