Farfalle vs Perplexica (www.glukhov.org)
from rost@lemmy.world to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 26 Aug 2024 12:29
https://lemmy.world/post/19070237

Comparing two #ai based self-hosted search engines

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zutto@lemmy.fedi.zutto.fi on 26 Aug 2024 12:49 next collapse

I’ve been toying with Perplexica over the last few weeks occasionally, it feels really restrictive.

I’ve had to modify the internal prompts to make it generate better search terms with my SearxNG (And depending on what LLM model you use, you need to fine tune this…) and having to rebuild the container image to do this has just been annoying. Overall, I’ve had experience with self-hosted LLM web searches on Open-webui, but perplexica is a fun project to try out nevertheless.

rost@lemmy.world on 26 Aug 2024 13:16 collapse

Yes, all the models behave differently, and the smarter one is not necessary for better. I want to finetune summarisation prompts, the Perplexica result can be better, The idea to improve search request is very good, will try it too. Thanks Zutto

themeatbridge@lemmy.world on 26 Aug 2024 14:07 next collapse

For a minute I legit thought Italy had dropped a new pasta shape.

rost@lemmy.world on 26 Aug 2024 14:37 collapse

There is such pasta shape too Not very new though

themeatbridge@lemmy.world on 26 Aug 2024 14:43 collapse

Perplexica? What sort of sauce goes with that?

sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works on 26 Aug 2024 14:58 collapse

As an American, I don’t understand how a different pasta shape changes what kind of sauce works well, pastas have pretty much the same flavor profile, so shouldn’t all sauces work fine?

tko@tkohhh.social on 26 Aug 2024 15:17 collapse

It has everything to do with the consistency of the sauce and how well it sticks to the pasta. For example, spaghetti with a meat sauce isn’t a great choice because the meat won’t actually stick to the pasta and you’ll have to scoop up that meat “manually.” Better is pappardelle, which has a huge surface area that causes the meat to stick to the pasta.

sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works on 26 Aug 2024 15:30 collapse

Hmm, I’ve had spaghetti with meat sauce quite a bit and it’s not really an issue (i.e. spaghetti bolognese).

That said, we don’t eat pasta very often (again, American), and I don’t like Italian much anyway. But I’ve done bolognese, carbonara, alfredo, aglio e olio, pesto, marinara, etc, all with spaghetti noodles and it’s fine. I’ve also done most of those with penne, farfalle, fettuccine, and others. Pick your noodles, pick your sauce, and go to town.

I’ve never been to Italy, so I’m guessing a lot of those pairings are very much non-traditional, but they all seem to work fine.

tko@tkohhh.social on 26 Aug 2024 15:39 next collapse

I hear you… it’s definitely not about one tasting better than others, but maybe more about the eating experience. I do think there’s a legitimate argument about how different pasta shapes encourage different pasta to sauce ratios, but at the end of the day it’s just the two elements coming together and the taste is what it is. We should all enjoy it the way we want to! I just wanted to explain why some people talk about certain sauces and certain pasta shapes “belonging” together.

sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works on 26 Aug 2024 15:52 collapse

Makes sense, thanks for the explanation.

My understanding is that it’s largely tradition, but I suppose there are some other things to consider.

clmbmb@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 26 Aug 2024 15:41 collapse

I hope not many Italians visit here, because then your inbox would be full of invectives 😁

sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works on 26 Aug 2024 15:50 collapse

I’d just chuckle to myself thinking of their hands flying all over the place while also trying to type. 😆

I’m sure other cultures do unholy things with American cuisine as well, but honestly, we do enough of that ourselves (e.g. Trump eating well-done steak, or this monstrosity).

clmbmb@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 26 Aug 2024 15:54 collapse

And don’t mention pineapple and pizza in the same sentence!

sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works on 26 Aug 2024 16:00 collapse

Heathen!

I do like pineapple on pizza, if it’s properly dried (nobody wants soggy pizza). But I consider American pizza to be an entirely different beast than Italian pizza, they’re not the same dish at all. With American pizza, pretty much anything goes, and generally the more toppings the better. But Italian pizza should be simple and cooked in a brick oven. Even my uncultured yankee self understands that much. 😆

sailingbythelee@lemmy.world on 26 Aug 2024 16:29 collapse

Hold up there, cowboy. Hawaiian pizza is Canadian cuisine, not American.

sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works on 26 Aug 2024 16:43 collapse

But it’s named after an American state, so I’m claiming it. Oh, and we put pineapple on a lot more than just Hawaiian pizza, just yesterday I had pineapple, pepperoni, and jalapeno, no Canadian bacon whatsoever, and my wife likes philly steak, pineapple, and jalapeno.

Just like how we stole pizza from the Italians, we’ll also stole Hawaiian pizza from our friends up north. It’s nothing personal. 😜

anzo@programming.dev on 28 Aug 2024 23:57 collapse

He asks whatever model is running behind either system to do the comparison and pastes the text. It’s full of errors, like perplexica saying farfalle doesn’t use LLM. Meanwhile, I just checked and it supports anything from ollama to groq (gpt4o, sonnet, etc.)

This post is ultra low quality.

rost@lemmy.world on 29 Aug 2024 01:32 collapse

That is easy to make errors about farfalle when there is not much in search result… All would fail, That wasnt a point of that post.

Thanks for checking but sonnet and chatgpt were irrelevant to me. Because not selfhosted.