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Re: Tl;dv: Over 180k meetings left wide open

#101

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this idea that government regulation is the problem and the companies need economic incentives to self regulate is a religion around here, and after incredible amounts of evidence that is untrue, like all religions, it’s practitioners have made zero changes to their opinion.

There is exactly zero evidence that any religion isn’t true. How could there be? Evolution can’t disprove the existence of God.

All depends which god we are disproving the existence of?

Re: Tl;dv: Over 180k meetings left wide open

#102

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this idea that government regulation is the problem and the companies need economic incentives to self regulate is a religion around here, and after incredible amounts of evidence that is untrue, like all religions, it’s practitioners have made zero changes to their opinion.

There is exactly zero evidence that any religion isn’t true. How could there be? Evolution can’t disprove the existence of God.

Allow me to introduce you to: Burden of Proof.

Re: Tl;dv: Over 180k meetings left wide open

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post #89

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More proof that software engineering isn't real engineering. If a civil engineer made a mistake that bad in my country, he'd likely lose his engineering licence.

Software lost that status in the vibe coding era. It's an art form now, not necessarily something worse or easier, just different than engineering. But probably not the career path anymore for those who prefered math over philosophy in college.

Software never had that status. I was disgusted by the decline I could see in the 90s even, and I was a teenager, I had no clue and still don't. I cannot imagine how it must be for people who do have a clue. They're probably all drinking.

Re: Tl;dv: Over 180k meetings left wide open

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I'm definitely biased as the developer, but maybe try https://whistle-enterprise.com and see how it works for you. It's a hard problem I've been working away on for a while now. It's far from perfect but every step brings it a bit closer.

Seems interesting. What would you say are the biggest missing points currently or things you want to get working/improved but couldn't yet?

Thank you, great question! Hard one to answer, thought about it a lot and it's going to be the diarisation of more than 5+ speakers per audio stream (your microphone + system audio for a max of 10). I actually spent a lot of time that went completely nowhere trying to fine tune my own diarisation model, it was fun to a degree but painful to see my output end up worse than what I currently had after days of work. Having a bot join the call would be such an easy way of diarising, the call software has already done it for you, but feels like a bit of a cop out.

Two more improvements, audio quality improvements which is currently in the works and close to release and a new document generation model. I'm currently using a custom fine tuned Phi-4 (released December 2024!) model, that's _so old_ in the grand scheme of LLMs, I just haven't had time to benchmark and properly test some new models whilst this currently does a good job as it is. There has to be some gains here, but who knows!

Re: Tl;dv: Over 180k meetings left wide open

#106

It's hilarious how these companies handle security breaches. I once reported superadmin user/pass committed to github at a major YC backed background check company I worked at and everyone tried to make it seem like it was my fault . I had just started working there and found it in the first week. Anyway, had to show that it was committed by their main Staff engineer 2 years before I even worked there. For 2 years ev…

More proof that software engineering isn't real engineering. If a civil engineer made a mistake that bad in my country, he'd likely lose his engineering licence.

If a civil engineer made a negligent mistake that bad which "made it to production", rather than being caught before the structure collapsed, he would spend a decade in prison for negligent homicide.

https://www.constructiondive.com/news/contractors-sentenced-...

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/comments/cjpva1/is_it_...

https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/oped/commentary/it-s-a12-ye...

Re: Tl;dv: Over 180k meetings left wide open

#107

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There is exactly zero evidence that any religion isn’t true. How could there be? Evolution can’t disprove the existence of God.

All depends which god we are disproving the existence of?

Prove Zeus didn't fart the Earth into existence, otherwise that's what happened

Re: Tl;dv: Over 180k meetings left wide open

#108

It's hilarious how these companies handle security breaches. I once reported superadmin user/pass committed to github at a major YC backed background check company I worked at and everyone tried to make it seem like it was my fault . I had just started working there and found it in the first week. Anyway, had to show that it was committed by their main Staff engineer 2 years before I even worked there. For 2 years ev…

unfortunately, that just how organization was

Re: Tl;dv: Over 180k meetings left wide open

#110
post #83

OK, the issue sucks. That said, the post was written by an LLM and It's not pleasant to read. If I didn’t work with Claude every day, I might feel differently, but because I do, this reads like slop.

TBH I've been finding Claude quite funny lately, the pasta jokes are pretty good.

> The irony is al dente.

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