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Anecdotally, I know several companies that have given the directive of "Use more AI instead of hiring more people". I wonder whether this is part of the story here too?

For anyone confused what "RAG" is: it stands for "Retrieval Augmented Generation", which is where the LLM model is paired with some sort of "database" (often a vector database) whe…

I was looking at this recently. Although duct tape doesn't always win vs cryotherapy, it's definitely a valid treatment: * Silver duct tape occlusion in treatment of plantar warts …

Yeah, this was pretty fun! Here's rap about a duck trying to get chicken nuggets at McDonalds: https://app.suno.ai/song/27476a1c-ab35-4dbd-bf71-a9fa0aaa4de... I don't see a way to …

Context: My workplace is outgrowing its original approach running background jobs, and I wanted to see what everyone else is doing. By background jobs I mean anything like ETLs, re…

OP here - Thanks! I'll put back the optics courses I deleted then

These are awesome recommendations - thanks!

That's a good point. The project-first approach worked very well for me when learning new software frameworks/libs/etc. My main concern with EE is that once I'll get to the brain-c…

About 1/2 of the textbooks came from the old course outlines (e.g. https://ece.uwaterloo.ca/~ece207/ ) and class shopping lists on UWaterloo book store. About 1/4 were guesses, and…

OP here. Nice, thanks! I didn't put math down because my undergrad was in applied math and I got to use it a lot early in my career. But sounds like I'll definitely need a refreshe…

Yeah, my first guess is the movement of that faint inner line triggers the Parasol cells or some other movement detection cells in our retina ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraso…

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