Closi

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by Closi 2y ago
100% this! In some companies the 'simple app' that is described in this post will get some ridiculous quote from central IT/tech ('it will take our team 4 sprints') and then never get signed off. IT will also ban a
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by Closi 2y ago
I don't have firm thoughts on the price point, but two examples of real-world use cases would be: * There is a food production company where their QA's do a monthly walkaround. It takes approx. 2-3 hours to type up notes after the
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by Closi 2y ago
FYI - this could be really useful in logistics operations and production too! (Which is my background, although I suspect the price point is unfortunately much too high for that application).
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by Closi 2y ago
> Can you think of anything? Yes, lots! £100m could give a hospital a substantial renovation for example.
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by Closi 2y ago
> Firstly, the 'bat shed' (officially SWBMS) is expected to cost £100m. This is neither expensive nor wasteful for a structure nearly 1 kilometre long and "designed to accommodate up to 36 high-speed trains passing through
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by Closi 2y ago
I suspect over-engineering and being allowed to generally spunk money up the wall was the main culprit. The £100m bat shed isn't a sign to me of over-zealous environmentalists, it's a sign that the project was mismanaged because t
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by Closi 2y ago
Agree with this. A few prompt variants: * What if you allow the model to do Chain of Thought (explicitly disallowed in this experiment) * What if you explain the board position at each step to the model in the prompt, so it doesn't hav
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by Closi 2y ago
You are right - it's a balance and definitely a matter of taste. Although not-ornate doesn't necessarily mean dead-simple or bad. For instance compare the following: > The reverberations of the trumpet stirred the knights from
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by Closi 2y ago
Pretty amazing effort, this looks like a great labour of love! I can't give feedback on the code/technology, but on the writing on the lore section, I would try to simplify the writing. For instance the following: > The reverbe
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by Closi 2y ago
It does! Drag some controls onto the form and hit the play button.
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by Closi 2y ago
I think this is too loose of a definition of code... Yaml isn't really code in the same sense as python is, and Shakespeare didn't write in code in the same sense that the diagrams in this article are.
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by Closi 2y ago
Why not write recipes in code too? Or a screenplay? (Because there are better formats for them)
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by Closi 2y ago
I don't think the 'craze' is thinking LLM-based AI will be the singular technology that changes everything. The craze is that all combined breakthroughs across all types of AI/ML, including techniques that have not yet b
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by Closi 2y ago
They could say that, but they haven’t to me in the past. Of course people can say no to things, but that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t ask when there is a good probability that they would say yes (particularly if you ask for the right amo
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by Closi 2y ago
Maybe instead of: > [Me]: I’d like $Y You could try: > [Me]: That matches my base salary at the moment but my current employer gives me healthcare and a car allowance so I would be out of pocket if I moved from my current job. In addi
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by Closi 2y ago
I suspect this isn't about making something look 10% better - it's about making something look 0.1% better in some circumstances. Which is totally great! The world needs lots of 0.1% improvements because 100's of them can add
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by Closi 2y ago
It's because current AI is meh on a phone. Once someone manages to combine Siri's phone integration + ChatGPT Voice mode and it runs locally I will be very interested. Until then, I'm a bit meh on it.
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by Closi 2y ago
Next step they should put a minimum price on non-disposable vapes at £50-£100.
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Also cost per ticket gets more expensive in the higher price brackets, which you wouldn't expect!
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by Closi 2y ago
FYI - Your website doesn't work on Firefox (the top nav bar) :) CRM sounds interesting.
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by Closi 2y ago
ChatGPT-O1 is quite a bit better at certain complex tasks IMO (e.g. writing a larger bit of code against a non-trivial spec and getting it right). Although there are also some tasks that Claude are better at too.
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by Closi 2y ago
It's not a class thing. Fox hunting, horse riding, polo and skiing... yes. Conkers, No.
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by Closi 2y ago
"Now we have dismissed Tesla, we have now decided to purchase tiny clown cars, as we could squeeze many police and suspects in each car" 2 months later "We have now found that clown cars actually don't go fast enough, as
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by Closi 2y ago
Totally agree - this story is only really interesting because it is Tesla, and it seems like they could have worked out that they wouldn't be suitable ahead of time. But equally this looks like a trial and maybe they just had to do the
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by Closi 2y ago
It's not really an issue with EV's - if this was a requirement I'm sure they could have modified parts of the car to provide protection. The issue seems to be that the purchase was poorly thought out and didn't think abo
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by Closi 2y ago
Totally agree! IMO VB.NET was just disappointing - tried too hard to turn VB into something 'proper' with 'better standards' rather than just being what it was (the YOLO language that you could build scrappy things in fa
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by Closi 2y ago
Same with computers though - back in the 60's problems had to be sufficiently valuable to solve in order to justify compute resource to them. For the initial computers, the 'prize' was Enigma and winning the war. Now we can u
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by Closi 2y ago
So VB6 had it right all along?
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by Closi 2y ago
Oop, sorry I mean 30 years to the first commercial passenger plane (Boeing 247) Yes, 45 years to the first passenger jet plane.
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by Closi 2y ago
Waymo's first real driverless ride on a public road was less than 10 years ago. Now they are doing 100k rides a week. I think your original post just overestimates the 'normal' pace of change - Taking 10 years to go from the

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