brettkromkamp

Joined 17 years ago

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Developer of knowledge organization systems • Creator of Contextualise • Avid Blender user
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Comment · 7 months ago
So it begins.
Comment · 9 months ago
What’s new? I mean, it’s the same bunch of companies propping up OpenAI because they know that if OpenAI fails this whole AI house-of-cards will come tumbling down around them.
Comment · 9 months ago
Is there any (major) AI-company that is not a total douchebag? The greed on display combined with a total absence of any kind of moral compass is sickening.
Comment · 10 months ago
Can the UN focus on something else than Israel?
Comment · 10 months ago
Just trying to figure out why anyone would want to go to the US, as a tourist, given the present situation.
Comment · 11 months ago
This would have to lead to model-collapse at some point, right?
Comment · 11 months ago
Kicked out? Why wasn't he sent to prison? This is basically spying, right? I can imagine that if you do this kind of stuff in Russia you would rot in a prison cell (and, perhaps even worse).
Comment · 11 months ago
It's so obvious that it's cringe. They have a product to sell so these kind of things are all part of a larger marketing campaign in preparation for their IPO.
Comment · 11 months ago
Not only that... I would really have to see something tangible from a company that makes these kind of claims. ASML's technology is some of the most complex and advanced in the world and has it has taken decades to get there. Of course it is possible, but without something tangible to back up their claims, I think I will remain skeptical.
Comment · 11 months ago
I so recommend reading this article. It will provide you insight into a world that, I imagine, the majority of readers are not familiar with: Python development in the financial/banking system.

This is definitely not the first time this article has appeared on HN's frontpage, but every time it does, I re-read the article because I find the approach to software that the author describes in the article to be fascinating. YMMV.

Comment · 1 year ago
What am I missing here? How does this get to HN's front page?
Comment · 1 year ago
Where’s the news in this? Would he say anything else than it not being a bubble?
Comment · 1 year ago
I developed Contextualise (https://contextualise.dev/) which is based on the topic maps paradigm. It has been my workhorse (personal) knowledge management tool for years now.
Comment · 1 year ago
It's a mixed bag. It depends on your problem domain, the problem you are trying to solve (within that domain), the context you provide the LLM, the output it generates (you are using libraries to coerce the output into predictable (JSON) structures, right?). What's more, based on what you are trying to do, the LLM you are using might have sufficient training data, but not necessarily so (resulting in possible hallucinations/confabulations). So, there's that. Also, LLMs are not deterministic, they can (and will) generate a different response every time you call them (even if the context you provided is the same). So, yeah... sometimes these things really deliver and other times, it's just... meh!
Comment · 1 year ago
Sorry, didn’t see your reply. Sure, just go to https://contextualise.dev/ and sign up. You really do need to have a basic understanding of the topic maps model to really make the most of Contextualise, though. If you have any questions just let me know at info at contextualise dot dev.

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