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by cuuupid 2y ago
GAO, civil OIG's, OMB, CBO, GSA, DoD OIG, Treasury OIG -- none have been successful in any capacity over the last 20 years. This was a bipartisan, consensus take 3 months ago.
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Yes, DOGE is being raked over the coals but only 77k federal employees have taken their severance package. Clinton also famously proposed majority cuts to the federal workforce.
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Defense spending gets audited frequently, the audits just end in failure. This is primarily due to massive lines in their budget that are totally classified, but also they do lose track of resources. Until recently they did not even know ho
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by cuuupid 2y ago
Yes, I maintain anyone who has spent any measure of time in govcon will come to the same conclusion. Our government is endlessly wasteful -- this was a universal, bipartisan take 3 months ago but now people are getting successfully gaslit i
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by cuuupid 2y ago
None of the existing cuts target deregulating SpaceX/Tesla, and the proposed regulatory cuts affect everything across the board and not just Musk's companies. When it comes to deregulation, we can pretend like this is new, or we c
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by cuuupid 2y ago
There are 5 different existing agencies within the government that all exist for essentially the same purpose -- to track and audit government spending. None of them have been successful in any capacity over the last 20 years. It's eas
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Analyzing this is my job and one of the main functions of the startup I founded!
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Government contract vehicles are not binding, call orders are but can also be cancelled and provisions are made for doing so. You’re pointing to one hyper specific example of cuts as frozen spending; it is easy to confirm billions have been
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by cuuupid 2y ago
These are good questions that are easy to answer once you’ve spent time in gov: - it is very hard to go thru every project and generally not worth it, it seems like they are sorting by contract vehicle size. there are 120k+ contracts spit o
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by cuuupid 2y ago
It’s probably a lot of things causing that: - new age defense tech companies band together pretty tightly - you can cut 10 Palantir contracts and save $200M but then you’re stuck with the existing tools (Sharepoint+PowerBI or Salesforce+Acc
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by cuuupid 2y ago
I think impartial observers have not spent time in actual government bureaucracy. Basically everything will seem like “they’re cutting something important!” Or “they’re stopping critical research!” because every government contract needs ju
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by cuuupid 2y ago
Government contracts are so big a few of them can sustain a F500 company; for AI, many CDAO contracts are 50-500MM$. If they do a big SI project with it, could be 1-2B$. Money is also guaranteed over 5 years and if the program doesn't
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Step-Audio-Chat: a 132B end-to-end speech-to-speech model(huggingface.co)
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We usually just ask them to share their background, like the typical background exchange handshake at the beginning of any external call. That normally prompts some follow ups about specific work, specific projects, if they know so-and-so m
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by cuuupid 2y ago
We usually get laughs, some quick jokes, etc., some really involved candidates will ask if it’s worded that way to prevent using ChatGPT. No one’s found it offensive, the prompt is mostly neutral just very “dangerous activity” coded.
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Yeah pretty much, they either go silent for 2-3 minutes or leave the call and claim their internet has cut out and need to reschedule. Just one time someone got mad and yelled at the interviewer about nothing specific, just stuff like I’m n
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by cuuupid 2y ago
So far 3 of the 11 people we interviewed have been clearly using ChatGPT for the >>behavioral<< part of the interview (like, just chatting about background, answering questions about their experience). I find that absolutely ins
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Trump to announce up to $500B in funding for private sector AI(cbsnews.com)
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They don't it's just promised in the future™. And even then, it should be a webpage on their website or API documentation, not a GitHub repo. It's not bikeshedding to expect a source code repository to have source code...
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by cuuupid 2y ago
I really, really dislike when companies use GitHub to promote their product by posting a "research paper" and a code sample. It's not even an SDK, library, etc., it's just advertising. I've noticed a number of China
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by cuuupid 2y ago
GovPro AI / Unanet | REMOTE (US) | Full-Time | Software Engineer (AI) We're using AI to automate the procurement cycle for the US government. We mainly work with contractors to speed up the search, research & proposal drafting
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by cuuupid 2y ago
It has been for a while, we ended up building our own test set to evaluate embedding models on our domain. What we realized after doing this is that MTEB has always been a poor indicator, as embedding model performance varies wildly in-doma
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It's one of the most irritating snowclones because most of the time the papers are not presenting some dramatic leap forward like attention.
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by cuuupid 2y ago
By the same definition every helicopter, plane, kid flying a drone, even car on the road is not “safe.” It’s the same way I can call a system reliable when it is 3 9’s, but that doesn’t imply 100% guaranteed uptime. Or a statistician can re
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by cuuupid 2y ago
From Singh earlier today: https://www.defense.gov/News/Transcripts/Transcript/Article/... > at no point were our installations threatened when this activity was occurring > What our initial assessm
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by cuuupid 2y ago
I believe they very explicitly said they pose no threat and also explicitly ruled out foreign entities and adversaries. I talked about this in another comment but Putin/Russia and Iran could never be contenders for this. If it was a fo
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by cuuupid 2y ago
All of the media sightings I have seen about these so far has been low flying. I don't deny that we have very high flying drones but I doubt they would be tested without NOTAMs (over CONUS). > Your answer sounds official. Is this an
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> So you think the military and intelligence has technology that is so secret they won't admit to it, but they're so uninterested in protecting that they're testing them willy nilly over populated areas?? The explicit purp
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Russia is not a top military power when it comes to technology, and probably not manpower after bleeding out in Ukraine. There are plenty of advanced drone programs that are "battle tested." They are successful and so you do not h
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The DoD has very publicly stated that these are safe; I know Americans have a lot of distrust in their military but when it comes to matters of national security and defense the intel community is more or less omniscient. Knowing the curren

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