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captaincaveman

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    Comment #40991299

    Thinking you can figure out someone in 5 minutes makes you a no hire from me ;)

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    Comment #40986642

    Yeah, and thats fine, there is literally no need to have them consistent between teams.

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    Comment #40786482

    Agree, a main benefit of using these would be performance gains.

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    Comment #40748951

    I think LangChain basically tried to do a land grab, insert itself between developers and LLM's. But it didn't add significant value and seemed to dress it up by adding abstraction…

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    Comment #40667844

    When we see what we think is a cat, what we have categorised as a cat, I don't think we are looking at it from each angle and going, cat, cat, cat. I think there is an aspect of so…

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    Comment #40664432

    I don't think its analogous, I don't think we see a cat and our brain have it frame by frame adjust our synaptic weights (or whatever brains do). The whole premise of natural brain…

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    Comment #40656288

    I'd say that was more like a single instance, one interaction with a thing.

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    Comment #40656005

    Mostly someone has a Phd and convinced people to give them money to 'change the world', then need someone who has actually built things beyond a script in a python notebook.

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    Comment #40650233

    Pompousness and self importance, we all get interviewed at some point don't power trip, it should be a humble two way conversation.

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    Comment #40647238

    I think there is potential, but at the moment it's 1. RAG your data 2. Magic 3. Agent business logic 4. $$$ where step 2 is very unclear. Also agent architecture what is it? A basi…

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    Comment #40640759

    Except (and really not wanting to offend Indians), what we did is import a large number (by percentage of tech jobs) of skilled Indians which drove down the market rate for those j…

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    Comment #40525086

    Good luck with that!

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    Comment #40308169

    Make the generation realtime VR and Meta Quest might have its killer app!

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    Comment #40158851

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimbal_lock

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    Comment #39989498

    Little by little is my advice, be at hand but not a crutch, show them what they are missing out on but don't push them to engage, they have to decide they want a better life and to…

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    Comment #39817960

    Yes, Anarchist were very much a specific thing in that context, not as its used today.

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    Comment #39615565

    PwC and KPMG were appointed to help rectify problems with the system earlier this year, while the council had previously employed EY on the implementation. I'm sure those three ban…

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    Comment #39615518

    Probably not, more often than not you get a KPMG/Accenture or some one equally useless.

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    Comment #39615446

    Where in Europe are you, are you applying to job in your country? Are you applying to jobs where you are a native speaker?

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    Comment #39452428

    yes it's time for more funding, nothing gets funding better than a burning platform ...

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    Comment #39358941

    Most people working on games have little input to the game dynamics, but sure have a bias for younger people because they can 'relate' to the market, and nothing to do with being m…

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    Comment #39358070

    Seems to be conflating GOFAI with Cybernetics, they are distinct with Cybernetics being far more aligned with the sub-symbolic approach (McCullock & Pitts for example).

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    Comment #39300846

    500 > 404 , you win a prize!

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    Comment #39273616

    It would be great if emacs had a LLM co-pilot, I could have it look at my config (and tell me what I could improve). Also i could ask how to do things in emacs, it would have some …

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    Comment #39267283

    I agree with Git being overcomplicated, and the commands being a semantic mess, although they have improved somewhat over the years. I also didn't like how Github became some defac…