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Comment · 7 months ago
You are right. I copied the reply because I wanted to share my point of view to both of you who had very similar point. A llm would have rewritten my first comment to you and adepted it to the slightly different other one. I think nether of you asked a question, but I can assure you no llm was involved in writing this. You are also right about the documentation issue, docs are a mess, often outdated or very vage to generalize, but not specific enough for individual manufacture specific processes or any other, to many edge cases when you work with >700 suppliers where processes often change from one quarter to another. So experience is all, hard to document but nice to share with an llm with the right context and my addition, because it can adept this quickly to the colleagues request. And yes solving the doc issues is part of the goal.
Comment · 7 months ago
I really love my job and I much more love helping people with the work I do. I also much more prefer talking to people directly than writing emails answering, but it is still part of what I do, when you are an expert at something you want to share and multiply this expertise. You can write it down in a book, or at corporations you write documentation, but people prefer contacting someone, because they have always something the docs don’t tell. So people do so by asking questions. A lot by mail. So in was spending my time explaining stuff but in the context the person who needs it. This took a lot of time and I could not share it with enough colleagues ( a couple of hundred contact me regularly ) and the more you know the more people come to ask. They of course do call or meet with me as well, but then they look for discussion or developing new ideas. So today I can talk and enjoy discussing with them, while my knowledge can continue to be spread, helping the once that just seek to understand to do their job. Since I implemented this loop I get so much good feedback, because when it needs to be fast they send a mail, knowing it will be answered fast. If it is important to interact, they call. The best from all of it. Best time ever :)
Comment · 7 months ago
I really love my job and I much more love helping people with the work I do. I also much more prefer talking to people directly than writing emails answering, but it is still part of what I do, when you are an expert at something you want to share and multiply this expertise. You can write it down in a book, or at corporations you write documentation, but people prefer contacting someone, because they have always something the docs don’t tell. So people do so by asking questions. A lot by mail. So in was spending my time explaining stuff but in the context the person who needs it. This took a lot of time and I could not share it with enough colleagues ( a couple of hundred contact me regularly ) and the more you know the more people come to ask. They of course do call or meet with me as well, but then they look for discussion or developing new ideas. So today I can talk and enjoy discussing with them, while my knowledge can continue to be spread, helping the once that just seek to understand to do their job. Since I implemented this loop I get so much good feedback, because when it needs to be fast they send a mail, knowing it will be answered fast. If it is important to interact, they call. The best from all of it. Best time ever :)
Comment · 7 months ago
I havily use llms for internal communication. I receive docen request per day from colleagues asking me very specific stuff by mail or teams about processes, setups, master data, my particular experiences with approaches, for contacts within our big corp or just general knowledge questions and how I would recommend to tackle certain problems: Setting up conditions in sap, where to find certain info or just send them current setups. Also they ask me about strategic advices. I use my personal knowledge base to automatically prepare drafts of the answers based on previous answers to other colleages. Before the llm time I could barely help all of then. I got more productive by x-times. I then digest the emails again back to my knowledge system. People have no problem with receiving obviously llm written answers. But because of the particular domain knowledge they know it can only come from me. Excuse my writing, this did not went though the same system :)

Edit: And now I forgot the most important. When the knowledge the llm retrieved is insufficient to answer colleagues question or the agent skill can not execute the requested task from my colleague, it asks me just for the missing info or skill and with me (the human) in the loop work is done x times faster. Eventually it will replace me and all my colleagues one day. Looking forward to do other stuff then

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Comment · 2 years ago
I liked also this one:

https://filmot.com/

Here you can search the subtitles of YouTube videos.

Comment · 4 years ago
Isn’t that because they can read sender and recipient? So if you write someone who do a lot of renting stuff they believe you might like it, too? Just a guess.
Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
Every time I login to gitlab.com with Firefox I get this screen. I thought that was normal. Because it is like this for months or maybe years already.
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Comment · 5 years ago
Which software do you use to index the sites?
Comment · 5 years ago
I will do so, thanks for the hint.
Comment · 5 years ago
I am looking for a real custom search engine for months now. I tried google programmable search engine, bing custom search and was even building scripts for duckduckgo, but nothing really worked for me.

For example, I have a list of 7500 company websites and I want to search them regularly for keywords, like product names, company names mentioned on them or if they have a some references to certain industries.

This could be a solution.

Comment · 5 years ago
When you scroll down on the landing page there are two more items. A PlayStation 1 and 2 solar panels. Lloyds auctioning this for real?
Comment · 5 years ago
This one explains the Tether scam quite nice: https://youtu.be/-whuXHSL1Pg

Edit: summary: 8 people founding the tether company, 7 of them with a criminal background. Lying and denying and then admitting after they have no other option. Yeah, seems like a nice company…

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