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Hi All, In 2011 I received an invite to attend HackManchester in England - I'm actually terrible with hackathon ideas and at the time I was excited about the WebAudio API which had…

I really do agree. I was a lead Technical Architect and authority on behalf of HM Treasury for a while, and I will tell you this: this is just the tip of the iceberg in government …

I used to work in Spend Controls in Cabinet Office, so I got to see this across about 20 UK Government departments. It's a bit of a race to the bottom regarding outsourcing, there …

Yes, absolutely. Although that would require care and forethought regarding unintended consequences. Most roads will lead back to consultancies stepping-in because the government o…

I've worked on a variety of large UK government systems for the past ten years. This blog encapsulates the problem of writing government services/software, which often results in s…

Yes, but you could optimise the generated questions over time to reduce cache-misses.

The number of chunks would be the same regardless of either approach. The generation of questions can be done out-of-band by a cheaper model. Their current implementation approach …

Am I correct in reading that the RAG pipeline runs in realtime in response to a user query? If so, then I would suggest that you run it ahead of time and generate possible question…

I'm surprised that Nokia found out through the keynote presentation from Steve Jobs. LG and Prada announced their phone a little earlier and it had been shown already at the IF Des…

I'm surprised that Nokia found out through the keynote presentation from Steve Jobs. LG and Prada announced their phone a little earlier and it had been shown already at the IF Des…

I'm not sure why no one else has mentioned this, but "STOP" will only stop messages relating to that particular campaign. By sending "STOP ALL" it will stop messages from any campa…

I'm surprised to learn that this isn't an open standard. E.g I must make an API call to a browser vendor. Is this a form of vendor lock-in?