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mfalcon
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About mfalcon
If you want to contact me, my e-mail is mf2286@gmail.com
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Comment #49243171
You can't simplify learning that way, learning is expanding your mental horizon, by learning something you grow and can take bigger things.
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Comment #49242756
The LLMs are a way to get quick feedback and getting it promotes quicker learning (if the feedback is good). Learning is difficult, sometimes I get blocked on something and before …
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Comment #49139785
Do you trust everything you read or how do you verify that the LLM is not hallucinating and giving you erroneus content?
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Comment #49139777
SQL seems to be a great fit because of how easy is to verify the output.
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Comment #49139769
Are you building something in this space? Or are you giving the resources directly to a llm chat interface along with some prompt?
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Ask HN: How are you using AI to learn?
It's time to start learning advanced topics again and I thought it'd be at least interesting to take advantage of LLM's to help me learn better or faster. I've read here that some …
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Comment #48731525
I think SWEs will still be needed but to do higher level work. The thing is, there will be less SWEs per company. Obviously I dont know ehat will happen, but my guess is that there…
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Comment #47837085
Agree, and for the delivery-riders side, you and some vlose people can start making the deliveries if possible.
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Comment #47705960
I don't know what requires more skills: creating Bitcoin or avoiding getting identified after all these years.
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Comment #47283438
"Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in"
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Comment #47087002
You have to evaluate the llm responses. https://aunhumano.com/index.php/2025/09/03/on-evaluating-age...
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Comment #46718201
In my opinion, conferences are mostly high noise low signal. My boss went to an "AI conference" last month and all the learnings he shared were things I was advocating already: - u…
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Comment #46678213
The truth is that no one really knows. My approach is to "ride the wave", don't resist, just try to use it as an advantage and if not possible, adapt and look where I can keep addi…
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Comment #46524890
Wake me up at Opus 12
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Comment #46434216
Would be nice to use as an interface to interact with Claude Code.
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Comment #46407669
Nice, I'll take a look. I was thinking about building a benchmark similar to the one you described, but first focusing on the negotiation between the store and the product supplier…
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Comment #46276767
I was eagerly waiting for a chapter on semantic similarity as I was using Universal Sentence Encoder for paraphrase detection, then LLMs showed up before that chapter :).
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Comment #46193353
I had been working on NLP, NLU mostly, some years before LLMs. I've tried the universal sentence encoder alongside many ML "techniques" in order to understand user intentions and e…
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Comment #45123336
You can evaluate with your programming language of choice.
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Comment #45123311
Good idea for a follow up post :)
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Comment #45123306
Yes, and these problems are more present in the first iterations, when you are still trying to get a good enough agent behaviour. I'm still thinking about good ways to mitigate thi…
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Comment #45121564
Hey fellow hners, OP here. Been working on agents for a while so I started sharing some things. The idea is to keep updating this post with a few more approaches I'd been using.
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Comment #45103963
I know that the "understanding" is a stretch, but I refer to the Understanding of the NLU that wasn't really understanding either.