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accidc

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    Comment #49159197

    How near/far is that future ? Cuz what if a human has to intervene as the LLM can’t get it right? Assuming a human then has till be able to comprehend it?

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    Comment #46816127

    It depends. A driver may have seen a child dart behind a car and expect them to emerge on the other side. Does Waymo have the same object permanence and trajectory prediction (comb…

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    Comment #46765410

    Very cool. I did something extremely similar for a personal project. However, I was not familiar with Swift, the app was more or less vibe coded. My next goal was to learn swift pa…

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    Comment #46249916

    I think nuclear has parallel to mainframes. Capital intensive, long lead time, expensive to operate/maintain/dispose and practically irrelevant in the day of distributed (computing…

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    Comment #46249643

    No. You are likely and automatically extrapolating the attention to detail seen in the outcome into believing that it is a reflection of the attention , thought and method of their…

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    Comment #46122786

    I captured a very similar thought in the footnotes of one of my comments here. A numerical distillation of our aggregated thoughts will live on for potentially longer than any ordi…

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    Comment #46070957

    Do you have a preferred/recommendation for a NAS OS?

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    Comment #44067321

    I think naming things co-pilot is getting excessive. Its just diluting your potential brand with MSFT and the term itself seems to be meaningless now. While MSFT may not own co-pil…

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    Comment #44041418

    As long as we understand that the ‘want’ may originate beyond what individuals desire. e.g. the state may want agricultural production to be in-house for food security or have suff…

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    Comment #43980832

    Within the article, he details his attempts to get clarity/feedback and the response of the hiring manager is as vague as it gets

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    Comment #43980809

    “but to deal with ambiguity and open-endedness, which is essential in R&D projects like Kagi Labs”…. Also based on the nonsense responses by the hiring manager, it sounds like one …

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    Comment #36909098

    not sure if this is the right place to point out, I tried installing the windows store version but it seemed unavailable. I am wondering if the app is restricted to only specific r…

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    Comment #36376358

    Certainly! Its just that now I can objectively discern the difference in responses (lack of made up citations): while earlier it was merely a feeling of mine that chatGPT was getti…

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    Comment #36376161

    I am certain a sanitizing layer has been added over chatgpt[1], which makes it all but useless. its responses are too deterministic now. Earlier, it used to happily regurgitate stu…

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    Comment #11395039

    A piece of advice from someone who wanted to work at startups.Having realized that its unlikely that my skills will translate to doing well at startup interviews, its only pragmati…

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    Comment #11394808

    There have been a few articles on the hiring/interviewing practices. As someone who has not worked/interviewed in a startup, I have a few rhetorical yet sincere questions: Does eve…

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    Comment #7491382

    The Bridgestone Aerobee was another device that seemed fit all the specifications for a electronic notebook. Bridgestone had teamed up with a Delta Electronics to bring these out b…

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    Comment #4802859

    It amuses me when people from western countries complain about noise(most comments contain clues to location). Having lived most of my life in India, noise has never been an issue …

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    Comment #4792396

    I found the article useful. As a self taught programmer who works in enterprise software using procedural programming, I was missing knowledge of design patterns and Big O. Having …

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    Comment #3157001

    off topic but to me living with no regrets does not mean literally that. Sometimes it means not regretting just one of action/outcome. Sometimes it means knowing that you did to th…