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awisema

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    Comment #43230701

    “The work is mysterious and important”

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    Comment #36235993

    There was room full of them at UMass in the late 80s, and a huge bundle of fiber than ran down the hall to the lab that used them. And, there was a parts spare that I used when I t…

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    Comment #35732948

    The claim that somehow LLMs as they stand are somehow the answer is disturbing. ChatGPTs ability to be authoritatively wrong is a serious problem… Just to see what it would do, I g…

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    Comment #35554768

    Absolutely! I spent 20+ happy years in academia. I loved research, I loved working with grad students. Were it not for the funding changes and the retirement of my faculty, I hope …

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    Comment #31979575

    If you are interested in approaches to combining programming language and database semantic. There is a bunch of work in this area from the 80s… Look up “Persistent Programming” an…

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    Comment #30411044

    In 1909 E.M. Forster published “The Machine Stops” a dystopian vision of a world where nobody ever leaves their individual rooms, and instead interacts solely through “the machine.…