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jsemrau

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About jsemrau

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    Comment #49116398

    This is a discussion on context window and not context. Please read my essay on context window saturation. I am also the author of deepcq (intent-aware memory querying & context mg…

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    Comment #49104501

    Needing large context windows is an illusion.

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    Comment #48887001

    Code World Models in Simultaneous Move settings like Capital Markets. DeepMind's CWM approach relies on standard MCTS/IS-MCTS, which assumes a single active player at each node. Th…

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    Comment #48871083

    Like the rest of the world. Since there are many non-Western countries that still have slaves there is no original sin.

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    Comment #48871073

    I don't believe in the original sin of slavery in Western countries. Slavery has been existed for centuries before and, despite being abolished by Western countries (hint: there we…

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    Comment #48869626

    There are more people enslaved now than at any point in time in history. Guess the countries.

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    Comment #48869581

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    Comment #48869481

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    Comment #48869154

    Please educate yourself more on this. Step out of your bubble. Christian nations have created the cultural and technical achievements over the last thousands of years. There is not…

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    Comment #48825291

    I am entirely sold on Qwen3-TTS's voice cloning. It runs locally and I can run it as many times as I want.

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    Comment #48813000

    Over the last 8 years Undead Labs has shipped nothing Compulsion shipped South of Midnight topping at ~1600 players on Steam Ninja Theory has shipped Bleeding Edge and Hellblade 2 …

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    Comment #48811936

    Microsoft own Enterprise if you like it or not. And Microsoft will also own a large piece of the AI in Enterprise cake. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/frontier-company

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    Comment #48799434

    The last two years have been perfect for accumulating tech debt. 2023 you would have probably implemented your Agents with LangChain and RAG 2025 you'd use MCP and OpenAI/Anthropic…

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    Comment #48704662

    The only way they can compete in Japan is the enterprise-game. Their partnership with Daiwa and MUFG is probably exactly what they should be doing. I doubt that they get that far t…

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    Comment #48703189

    But did they deliver anything yet? There are many startups with notable founders that are not being able to get models launched. And even if they are able to launch, so they get PM…

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    Comment #48651551

    Interesting timing as Workday is facing Discrimination Claims in California doing the same thing. https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/california-judge-upho...

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    Comment #48532516

    Just because you have a large garage doesn't mean you can park your car easily.

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    Comment #48531743

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    Comment #48456827

    > there was no qualified American applicants I have been hiring for 20 years and find this increasingly impossible to believe. Please expand why that would be the case.

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    Comment #48337191

    I did a pair programming comparison over 3 month on Codex 5.2 and Claude Sonnet and my subjective experience was that based on cost and rollbacks to a previous commit Claude is sig…

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    Comment #48328147

    In my opinion, the bread example doesn't really work that well because it bridges into the physical domain which most cognitive systems don't have access to. That said, for groundi…

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    Comment #48304699

    Anthropic for sure. It's a useful professional product that I find many use-cases for in my professional and private life. OpenAI not so much.

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    Comment #48166728

    Thank you.

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    Comment #48164922

    That assumes one layer of memory. In my experience you need to have at least 4 layers of memory to work well. All of them have different requirements for retrieval. Everything that…