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0o_MrPatrick_o0

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About 0o_MrPatrick_o0

I'm into:

* Building things

* Protecting things that are used by lots of people

* Helping people who protect things get better at influencing others.

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Recent public activity

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    Comment #49037785

    "complete wheel-spinning nonsense that was OpenRAN" is a concise summary of 3-5 years of cargo-cult telco innovation.

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    Comment #49036586

    Hi Telco nerds! It's looking like 3GPP is shifting away from faster networks and into networks that are programmable, energy-budgeted platforms. Anybody doing experiments with comp…

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    Comment #49016166

    The tech world needs good heels! His worst takes were some of his best!

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    Comment #49012060

    Dvorak's curmudgeonly approach to tech journalism was deeply enjoyable. He was utterly un-sycophantic and a playful troublemaker. Condolences to his wife, family and fellow podcast…

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    Comment #48668060

    Thank you for sharing this observation. I had a post on here this week that was briefly popular. There were numerous folks who posted that the material “wasn’t new.” I felt like it…

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    Comment #48637922

    I had an order of operations error. I better edit it because you’re the second person to get nerd sniped. Sorry friend- you are right

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    Comment #48632632

    Reading these comments is so harrowing. You are correct in my intentions on this post generally. I want to highlight: I want to measure performance of the LLMs over time- which inc…

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    Comment #48631540

    Awesome share! Thank you!

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    Comment #48631427

    I missed my coffee! Ty! Five points to Slytherin.

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    Comment #48631153

    My bad! 10 points for House Slytherin!

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    Comment #48631074

    I want to measure performance drift over time. Having access to the reasoning text and output would help with performance measurement.

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    Comment #48630630

    It’d be nice to see some example code. Good writeup otherwise!

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    Comment #48577472

    "Carlini had never before found a bug in Linux, or in Ghost. Now he had discovered many." New guy learns nessus, now tells everyone at the bar he's basically Mr. Robot. A pox on th…

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    Comment #47949909

    Hey! Cool idea! I was lamenting the state of advertisements in biblehub and biblegateway and thought it’d be nice to see something like what you’ve done. Where are you pulling your…

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    Comment #47773570

    ‘The United States’ foreign router ban didn’t make a whole lot of sense, and today may not change that.` ??? No obvious reason? What if the Executive Branch is a dog chasing cars? …

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    Comment #47747979

    If you need evidence of Amazon’s ability to wield AI-driven development towards creative and productive ends… Look elsewhere.

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    Comment #47695067

    I think it’s unwise because Model reliability is transient. When the models have an off day, the workflows you’ve grown to depend upon fail. When you’re completely dependent on Ant…

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    Comment #47694533

    I’ve been building my own version of this. It’s a bit shocking to see parallel ideation. FWIW- IMO, being locked into a single model provider is a deal breaker. This solution will …

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    Comment #47646284

    It may be possible that this has changed. Last year I built a device and crashed into the bridging weirdness when I wanted to use upstream dhcp. There was/is some funkiness lurking…