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vakkermans

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About vakkermans

https://www.tenfive.ai https://www.newsituationists.com

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    …Who is a pedant.

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    I appreciate the attempt at making sense of conversational interfaces, but I don't think natural language as a "data transfer mechanism" is a productive way of doing it. Natural la…

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    I quoted the bit I wanted to react to, namely the idea that businesses have to give customers what they want. I read that as strongly influenced by an economically driven - rather …

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    > Newspapers are a business and have to give their customers what they want. I really want to challenge this idea. Businesses can have missions quite distinct from what the majorit…

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    Well put! Donald Schön’s work on this topic is really enlightening. It’s not just that there’s knowledge in the heads of people that can’t be linguistically expressed well, but als…

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    Finding a proof is a search in a large space, akin to searching from abstractions to concretions. LLMs don’t do anything like this, and so you’re looking at the planning problem ag…

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    I remain sceptical about any form of combination of reinforcement learning and LLMs. Acting successfully in the world when faced with complex issues requires learning useful ad-hoc…

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    MXX Music | Software developer (C++/Qt/QML) | London, full-time | https://www.mxxmusic.com MXX Music develops AI music editing technology. We are currently developing our Audition …