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dileeparanawake

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About dileeparanawake

UK-based full-stack engineer. Co-founded an AI accessibility startup for dyslexic & ADHD email users. TEDx and Warwick speaker on AI & accessibility. Passionate about neurodiversity, inclusive UX, hiking, and trail running.

https://github.com/dileeparanawake

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    Dingle3000

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    Comment #44905907

    This is cool. For on device models any plans / models that use MOE in relatively resource constrained setups (I’m thinking MBP M1 16gb ram)? I’m using LM studio but all the Gemma m…

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    Comment #44905769

    Wow that’s insane - didn’t realise that was happening re non-organic posts. From a behavioural POV it seems like an obvious play. These companies and there owners have huge gains v…

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    Comment #44905497

    Sounds like an accomplished life

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    Comment #44904749

    Amazed social media engineering society isn’t getting more press. They are all doing it. I noticed this first on X - during the FarageRiots where an Asian woman asked how many peop…

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    Comment #44875213

    My 2C: Outcome = A quantified, measurable, desired deliverable.

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    Comment #44875157

    Aha with you - so essentially the challenge is about enforcing accountability? Humans = you’re fired / llms less clear? Would or could rewards / penalties (like in reinforcement le…

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    Comment #44874171

    Why does wealth inequality drive price inflation? Good question and not obvious. Here's the answer? How much does a bottle of water cost? - Supermarket? - Festival? - In a drought,…

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    Comment #44874126

    In theory - CEO's have ultimate responsibility. In practice it's more complex - boards, delegation, company structures, hr etc etc remove a lot of ultimate responsibility from CEO'…

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    Comment #44874029

    Your point about measuring errors is an interesting one. I think definitely CEO’s / business leaders are very good at deflecting negative responsibility and aggregating positive ou…

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    Comment #44874004

    It’s so interesting have asked this myself a lot. So firstly - it think this would be an excellent use of AI but the barriers are; 1. Political - CEOs have significant purchasing p…

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    GPT-5 worse for custom GPT’s?

    Have quite a few custom GPT’s and projects with instruction sets / loops and GPT-5 usually ignores the instructions / loops etc in my instructions. Eg do step a,b,c with x and it i…

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    Comment #44872843

    Simple is good. For me - apple notes (my life todo temp), apple reminders (more persistent todos / reminders - setup kanban) and then text files + kanban for coding projects. Todo …

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    Comment #44853609

    Yep right now I’m not even sure I’d say it’s 10% better (at things I use it for). Feels overhyped based on the launch and what every influencer covered in their review (maybe obvio…

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    Comment #44853598

    Not sure about them peaking but I definitely feel that right now gpt-5 doesn’t feel like a game changer like the marketing says. In some things it’s worse, slower, less useful (in …

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    Comment #44840502

    Increasing wealth inequality, drives prices inflation, wage stagnation and less disposable income, driving less consumption, driving less revenue for businesses, meaning cuts happe…

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    Comment #43475138

    Agree & disagree. Agree - some neurodiversity products / self help products are very predatory and aim to make people think it’s the solution for their struggles when they aren’t. …

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    Comment #39193584

    Both agree and disagree here. Agree because you have outlined a reality here. Disagree because, on aggregate, the expectation of making neurodiversity confirm is toxic and is a maj…

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    Comment #39179539

    this field means neurodiversity technology / assistive tech. Obviously I distracted myself, before I completed that thought

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    Comment #39179522

    absolutely, constant messaging interruptions are terrible. Solution is turn of messaging, hide my phone, and help my colleagues know that if they consider about the outcome / work …