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" Do we have any standard benchmarks for humanoids to do domestic tasks?" The answer is yes. Steve Wozniak proposed the Coffee Test. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MowergwQR5Y…

I use Claude. It's really good, but you should try to use it as Boris suggests. The other thing I do is give it very careful and precisely worded specs for what you want it to do. …

LLMs are parameter based representations of linguistic representations of the world. Relative to robot predictive control problems, they are low dimensional and static. They are ba…

I've spent a lot of my career doing various types of solution design. One of the insights I gained from thinking a lot about representation, intentionality and the philosophy of la…

Majored in Philosophy. Started programming in 1973 on mainframes. Became a full time developer, systems analyst. 72 years old now, with 50 years experience in IT. Co-founded a coup…

I'm in the process of actually building LLM based apps at the moment, and Martin Fowler's comments are on the money. The fact is seemingly insignificant changes to prompts can yiel…

I knew a tech founder once who spent an hour lecturing us (his employees) on business ethics. He'd even written a little red book (like Mao) to codify his thoughts on how we should…

Look, I love LLMs and even implement them for customers, but I am very sceptical about them 'replacing' ERP and CRP systems. What some AI folks don't seem to understand is that tra…

I'm surprised not to see anything about David Cope, who is the real master of AI produced music. Cope works mostly within the classical tradition, using AI to produce work in the s…

Gettier cases tell us something interesting about truth and knowledge. This is that a factual claim should depict the event that was the effective cause of the claim being made. De…

I think you are asking the wrong question. Before you decide what to bring in house, you need to have an IT strategy That sets out what components of your desired solution should b…

I know Orwell's work pretty well, and I read that sentence, and thought to myself: "Cant remember where he said anything like that, but what the hell, I haven't read everything Orw…

Excellent. I agree totally. But trying to get adherence to standards in requirements documentation is like trying to nail jelly to the ceiling.

As others have said, rewrite the CV. It's not clear to me who you are and what kind of role would best suit you. Put a summary at the top making clear what you are best at and what…

LLMs make writing code easier, but they don't make it unnecessary. "No-code" is mostly small consumer apps and POCs, but "low-code" is a big industry based on platform building. Mu…

Lots of different types of tools here. Some are no code, most are low code. There is no clear dividing line between them: they are all configurable platforms with the ability to in…

The NFL theorem means nothing if all the learning tasks have a common underlying structure. In the real world, they do. The laws of physics and chemistry create emergent causal rel…

Don't know how accessible or affordable therapy is where you live, but you certainly need someone to talk to. I had a midlife crisis in my 40's. My career was going nowhere, I was …

Good point. The essence of processing is the transformation and combination of signs. Processing a sign is a kind of energy transformation. The process takes input signs, performs …

I'm 69, about to turn 70. I'm in a senior technical consulting role which often requires me to go on the tools. I work for a big, successful software firm that can afford to pay we…

The Robodebt scandal in Australia didn't spill over to violence in the streets, but it came close. Robodebt was a debt collection system introduced by the Federal government to rec…

I studied philosophy to postgraduate level before having to go out and get a real job. Now in late middle age, I am nearly recovered to the point where I have to agree with the aut…

I'm a 69 year old who made a conscious decision 12 years back to leave sales and management and return to my technical roots. Now I'm in a solution architect role where I'm expecte…

In no particular order: - The siege of Krishnapur by J G Farrell - War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy - The Radetsky March, by Joseph Roth - The Leopard, by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa …

Worth noticing that prosecution of foreign companies under Australian law requires the consent of the Federal Attorney General. This consent has been given, meaning that the Austra…