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by mbb70 3y ago
This always seemed like the end game vs. getting a degree in prompt engineering. If you get enough data on "initial prompt attempt" -> "final successful prompt", the whole thing can be replaced by a fine tuned model.
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by mbb70 3y ago
We had no dedicated QA, but would consistently poach "Customer Success" team members for critical QA work for the exact reasons your listed. Worked quite well for us. Especially for complex products that are based on users chainin
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by mbb70 3y ago
Email is quintessentially "fire and forget" message passing, so there's no way to guarantee mail has been delivered and no way to "pull it back". You can embed tracking in your email to see if it's been opened,
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by mbb70 3y ago
Word of warning: only read Malazan if you have 400+ hours burning a hole in your lifespan. Those books are good, but they are _long_
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by mbb70 3y ago
If you are using an LLM to pull data out of a PDF and throw it in a database, absolutely go wild with whatever model you want. If you are the United States and want a chatbot to help customers sign up on the Health Insurance Marketplace, yo
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by mbb70 3y ago
The user of SAP you describe is not the 'user' in the sense of the article. The user is the one who pays, i.e. some other business. SAP absolutely delights its users to the tune of a $200 billion market cap.
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by mbb70 3y ago
Part of what the enterprise is buying is someone to blame. Same can be said for consultancies, outsourcing etc. It is a very real part of the politics of decision making at large orgs.
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by mbb70 3y ago
I'm sorry you feel that way
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by mbb70 3y ago
Agreed, Boston to NYC on Amtrak is only marginally better (sometimes) than flying and thats only ~200 miles
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by mbb70 3y ago
If you going to compare simple and easy, you've got to mention the Simple Made Easy talk by Rich Hickey. Though debatable if Rich would find Go simple in his sense of the word. An example might be not having an insertion-order map iter
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by mbb70 3y ago
Pkd was a genius, an addict, and most importantly, got paid by the page. Jonathan Letham's Amnesia Moon (mentioned at the bottom) is my favorite "how pkd would write if he weren't ripped on speed 24/7" Guess it&#x27
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by mbb70 3y ago
I would assume it translates to "Don't check Slack in your Uber headed for the airport"
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by mbb70 3y ago
LeCun et al. got 99%+ handwritten digit accuracy in 1995, which is pretty analogous to shape identification. Having it run trivially and performantly in the browser is still an accomplishment. As always, the experience for the user is what
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by mbb70 3y ago
One I recently heard was "conducting a rif" == "conducting a reduction in force" == "firing people". Soft language is alway to the benefit of the speaker, to assuage guilt or obfuscate intent. It's always
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by mbb70 3y ago
Sinatra ( https://sinatrarb.com/ ) uses `get "/route/goes/here" do...` syntax and significantly predates express. I don't know of anything earlier, but I'm sure there are others.
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by mbb70 3y ago
Corollary: If a product marketed as AI is useful, that's a strong signal it's a logistic regression.
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by mbb70 3y ago
But that's exactly what they have: millions of high quality, rated chat interactions that no one else has. I don't know how they could _not_ incorporate customer usage to improve their models.
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by mbb70 3y ago
This seems like a reformulation of the birthday paradox. That someone has a specific name is incredibly unlikely, but that someone has a name is almost guaranteed. Situations/phrasing can trick out intuition into paying attention to fo
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by mbb70 3y ago
I'm all for this kind of exploratory hacking around before booting up python/R/Excel/duckdb, especially in constrained environments. A classic pain point is having to deal with column numbers, so I'll share my favor
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by mbb70 3y ago
Facebook has over 2,000,000,000 daily active users...
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by mbb70 3y ago
We had billions of Protobufs to store in Cassandra as byte blobs, using a zstd dictionary dramatically reduced storage size and improved latency over the built in compression. The complexity overhead of managing these dictionaries and makin
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by mbb70 3y ago
The "Why is this image funny?" test reminds me of https://karpathy.github.io/2012/10/22/state-of-computer-visi... In 10 years we went from "SoTA is so far from achieving this I don't even
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by mbb70 3y ago
I've done the same with MongoDB with findOneAndModify, simple and solid
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by mbb70 3y ago
Really thought this was going to be about bipartite graph matching algorithms, which are useful and interesting, whereas this article boils down to "5s should just date 5s"
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by mbb70 3y ago
The bidding will continue for several more days. The site lists an 'estimate' price at > $100,000
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by mbb70 3y ago
FYI your "Why pay for search" and "FAQ" links on https://kagi.com/pricing are broken, perhaps another refactoring victim?
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by mbb70 3y ago
The City & the City by China Meiville. Meiville normally write weird fiction with a heavy handed communist slant e.g. mutant railroad workers revolt against their capitalist masters and escape by laying and digging up tracks as fast as
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by mbb70 3y ago
Calling out aluminum and pens is like picking lotto numbers after the drawing. You're ignoring the mountain of failures that were all incredibly promising and had incredibly smart people spending incredible amounts of time and money on
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by mbb70 3y ago
Agreed, much like Java turned out to be the next evolution of Java. Python is the the 'good enough at everything + huge ecosystem' language that you can't replace no matter how much cooler the concurrency paradigm.
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by mbb70 3y ago
Needing money to eat is not a sign of hypocrisy, and hypocrisy is not a sign of being wrong.

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